Author Topic: The F4U Gunsight Thing (Read 165 times)

Rendar · « **on:** August 06, 2000, 03:30:00 PM »

The gunsights look so weird because of the angle of the glass. Is there a way to make the gunsights appear circular?

Update: I made an improved F4U gunsight, see my other post.

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Rocket · « **Reply #1 on:** August 06, 2000, 03:36:00 PM »

tell me about it!
I have a mk8 sight for my hog and it is so squished it isn't funny. I can put it in any other plane and it looks fine but in the hog bah!

Rocket

funked · « **Reply #2 on:** August 07, 2000, 02:36:00 AM »

How come other planes with angled glass don't have a distorted sight?

Rendar · « **Reply #3 on:** August 07, 2000, 11:50:00 AM »

The only plane which has an angled HUD is the F4U.

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funked · « **Reply #4 on:** August 07, 2000, 08:44:00 PM »

Negative Rendar. I've seen 109's and 190's in museums and the glass on the Revi gunsight was most definitely angled.

Jigster · « **Reply #5 on:** August 07, 2000, 09:55:00 PM »

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Originally posted by funked:
Negative Rendar. I've seen 109's and 190's in museums and the glass on the Revi gunsight was most definitely angled.

So is nearly any other US plane. Projection comes up and is reflected off the slanted glass panel. Uh I believe US turrent sights also have slanted glass panels

- Jig

Rendar · « **Reply #6 on:** August 08, 2000, 12:27:00 AM »

Hmmm. So the F4U must have a bug. Superfly said that this would be fixed, but I'm curious why this is inly seen on the F4U?

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LLv34_Camouflage · « **Reply #7 on:** August 08, 2000, 03:35:00 AM »

All reflection sights had a slanted glass.

The image producer, kind of a lightbulb, reflects the image of the gunsight onto the glass, where it then reflects into the pilots eyes. The image on the gunsight glass is focused into infinity, so it is sharp as the pilot looks through it at the target.

Camo

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LLv34_Camouflage · « **Reply #8 on:** August 08, 2000, 03:39:00 AM »

Here's a pic of Revi 16B reflector gunsight, used on 109s.

The "bulb" is the black cylinder and reflects the image on the glass.