Is the sound a little better on their website ? Harmonisation of Hurricane fighter aircraft during World War Two /... | Huntley Film Archives
Maybe a bit boosted, but still tricky. The subject more interesting than most, though. In memoirs they always seem to say 'we zeroed the guns', sometimes with a basic explanation, but I often wondered exactly how that happened. "This view of the Armourer is not presented for your amusement!"
I only learned about the bore sighting periscopes fairly recently but never imagined the whole procedure was this elaborate. Luftwaffe fighter pilots usually got the Hurricane/Spitfire ID mistake the other way around
Among the most glaring and egregious errors were the decisions to make Pearl Harbor and Windtalkers. A firing squad for both Ben Affleck and Nicolas Cage.
Those features still weren't very common even on Okinawa 10 months later. I've been on some carbine sites and a genuine late-war bayonet lug photo is a cause for remark.
Please remove if Masonic rule violation. I think it is going near the line but not crossing it ... got the time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch and the rank of the recipient wrong ... As he campaigns for president, Joe Biden tells a moving but false war story
Someone on an engine group asked for help IDing a engine, which was a clearly a hot rodded Cadillac flathead V8 Some guy IDed it and said that two of them were used to power Sherman tanks, that each engine drove one track through an automatic transmission and that the transmissions did not have a reverse because tanks do not back up. This expert went on to say that 'many' people installed surplus transmissions into cars and were then surprised that there was no reverse. Painful.
Sounds as if someone was looking at the WW1 Medium A Whippet which did have an engine per track and by all accounts was a real s*d to drive. It did have reverse though and was supposed to be able to do very tight turns by having one engine in forward gear and the other in reverse.
The M3e2 prototype had (I think) the first twin Caddy engines, mated to a single driveshaft... with reverse. Some nice twin pictures here. Can't imagine the time spent to get that compartment so clean. Cadillac Flathead V8 Engine Data Got a shot somewhere of a Chaffee with a shiny Cadillac badge on the rear. Entertaining owners.
Ahh, I forgot about this thread. I saw something staggeringly bad in a book by George Forty on the weekend, about the A30 Avenger SP: Let's break this down. - Open-topped turret was not to reduce weight, but to reduce silhouette - Was not a stop gap weapon - Was produced after Archer SP began production - Was produced after British army got M10 - I think the bit about switching production to Comet is wrong too.
