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Offline ramzey

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Q:F6F version
« on: July 06, 2004, 12:58:34 AM »


im wonder whats do windows behinde cockpit
photo recon version, windows for cameras? or for passangers?
anyone?

Offline Slash27

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Q:F6F version
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2004, 11:53:15 AM »
Not sure if they had a funtion. I read that they were deleted in the F6F-5 but it didnt say why the -3 had them to begin with.

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Q:F6F version
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2004, 12:01:54 PM »
I'll bet it's for passengers.  At an airshow I once saw an F4F with a tinted window in the fuselage.  I pressed my nose up against it to look in and there was someone sitting in there.  It looked like there was room for 2 or 3 people.  

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Re: Q:F6F version
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2004, 12:03:14 PM »
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Originally posted by ramzey


im wonder whats do windows behinde cockpit
photo recon version, windows for cameras? or for passangers?
anyone?


Restored F6F with ability to carry someone behind the pilot.   Not a combat version in the image you posted.

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Re: Q:F6F version
« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2004, 12:38:20 PM »
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Originally posted by ramzey


im wonder whats do windows behinde cockpit
photo recon version, windows for cameras? or for passangers?
anyone?

Offline F4UDOA

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Q:F6F version
« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2004, 02:21:02 PM »
That is an after market addition.

Many restorations have little perks like windows for passengers in the back that were never there. After all what is the sense of owning a warbird if you can't make your friends puke in it.

I am thinking of getting an F4U with a DVD player in the headrest and those spinning crome rims on the wheels.

Offline Grits

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Q:F6F version
« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2004, 02:24:37 PM »
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I am thinking of getting an F4U with a DVD player in the headrest and those spinning crome rims on the wheels.



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