Author Topic: Looks Like 20mm to Me (Read 1378 times)

Shuckins · « **on:** November 06, 2006, 06:35:21 PM »

Ran across this picture of a factory fresh -3 Hellcat with twenty millimeter cannon. No radar dome visible. Just wondering if this was a one-off or a production aircraft or a night fighter prior to installation of radar.

Shuckins · « **Reply #1 on:** November 06, 2006, 06:41:27 PM »

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Badboy · « **Reply #2 on:** November 06, 2006, 06:54:20 PM »

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Originally posted by Shuckins
AAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!!!! It didn't paste!!!

(Beats head on desk)

Try this:

Badboy

Viking · « **Reply #3 on:** November 06, 2006, 08:23:18 PM »

Looks a bit small for a 20mm doesn't it?

Treize69 · « **Reply #4 on:** November 06, 2006, 08:27:40 PM »

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Originally posted by Viking
Looks a bit small for a 20mm doesn't it?

Cannon envy?

Viking · « **Reply #5 on:** November 06, 2006, 08:56:24 PM »

DiabloTX · « **Reply #6 on:** November 06, 2006, 10:29:48 PM »

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Originally posted by Viking
Looks a bit small for a 20mm doesn't it?

You're just used to seeing the 20's on those dainty and cute lil Euro planes. Not the P-47 of the USN.

Hehe...

Debonair · « **Reply #7 on:** November 06, 2006, 10:55:58 PM »

wasn't the radar thingy installed on the starboard wing?

Saxman · « **Reply #8 on:** November 06, 2006, 10:57:48 PM »

IIRC, the original specs for the F6F called for the 20mm because the USN was BIG on getting cannon on their planes, but there were problems with the US-built Hispanos that were never properly ironed out before the war ended. That's why they went back to .50cal for the F4U-1D and -4 after the cannon-armed 1C.

VooWho · « **Reply #9 on:** November 07, 2006, 09:29:22 AM »

It looks like the cannons are placed in the wings, and that stick sticking out is either the radar, or maybe radio antana, or I just can't spell, or its something else. All planes have these radio sticks sticking out of them from the back of the cockpit, to the wings, and sometimes the belly.

Ball · « **Reply #10 on:** November 07, 2006, 12:47:02 PM »

http://www.vectorsite.net/avf6f.html

Debonair · « **Reply #11 on:** November 07, 2006, 05:47:44 PM »

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Originally posted by VooWho
It looks like the cannons are placed in the wings, and that stick sticking out is either the radar, or maybe radio antana, or I just can't spell, or its something else. All planes have these radio sticks sticking out of them from the back of the cockpit, to the wings, and sometimes the belly.

that protrusion on the end of the starboard wing looks like a pitot tube to me...

Widewing · « **Reply #12 on:** November 07, 2006, 06:13:54 PM »

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Originally posted by VooWho
radio sticks

Radio sticks!!?? Maybe you were in the Air Force....

You mean the HF radio mast, I assume.

My regards,

Widewing

frank3 · « **Reply #13 on:** November 07, 2006, 06:38:54 PM »

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Originally posted by Debonair
that protrusion on the end of the starboard wing looks like a pitot tube to me...

The opening of it seems a little large (lol) to me, but perhaps it's part of the radar system?

Debonair · « **Reply #14 on:** November 07, 2006, 06:54:19 PM »

now that i think of it, on the end of a flwoing wing not likely part of the pitot static system.
i'll go with radio sticks, though...