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Offline Lab Rat 3947

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P-38 Gunsite
« on: May 16, 2009, 10:57:07 PM »
Does someone out there know what the real gunsite of the P-38's actually looked like. I have tried looking on the internet but so far I haven't found out. I would appreciate any help in finding out this detail.
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Re: P-38 Gunsite
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2009, 11:20:26 PM »
danny37 gave me some gun sights links and it has 2 you should ask him
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Re: P-38 Gunsite
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2009, 12:53:29 AM »
I think the earlier models used N-9 gun sight while the Sperry K-14 gun sight was introduced with the P-38J and used with the later models.

Edit: Just looked at our 38J and L in game and that doesn't look like a K-14. I sure others will know though.

Edit2: Check this site http://gunsight.jp/b/english/data/sight-e-aa.htm

The in game J/L models look they use a Lynn-Type 3(L-3). Our G looks like it uses a N-3B.
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Re: P-38 Gunsite
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2009, 01:23:29 AM »
The K-14 is available in one of the gun sight packs, but I can't remember which one at the moment.
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Re: P-38 Gunsite
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2009, 01:59:09 PM »
Quote from: mensa180 on May 17, 2009, 01:23:29 AM
The K-14 is available in one of the gun sight packs, but I can't remember which one at the moment.

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Re: P-38 Gunsite
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2009, 02:14:58 PM »
My default isn't K14  :huh
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Re: P-38 Gunsite
« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2009, 02:20:31 PM »
Waffle's.
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Re: P-38 Gunsite
« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2009, 03:14:27 PM »
I would thank everyone for their responses.
I have not been online in AH2 yet, I am still practicing offline. The offline missions have been a great help in that area.
My love of the P-38 stems from my parents. They met in 1943 at the Lockheed plant, in Burbank. They were on the P-38 assembly line.
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Re: P-38 Gunsite
« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2009, 03:21:25 PM »
Quote from: cactuskooler on May 17, 2009, 12:53:29 AM
I think the earlier models used N-9 gun sight while the Sperry K-14 gun sight was introduced with the P-38J and used with the later models.

Edit: Just looked at our 38J and L in game and that doesn't look like a K-14. I sure others will know though.

Edit2: Check this site http://gunsight.jp/b/english/data/sight-e-aa.htm

The in game J/L models look they use a Lynn-Type 3(L-3). Our G looks like it uses a N-3B.

Early models used mainly the N-3 type,



and the J used the Lynn Type 3



The N-3 is available as one of the custom ones, I think Waffles. Image below is the projected image on an N-3C, used by almost every USAAF fighter.



The Lynn Type 3 was basically just two concentric circles and a small pipper AFAIK.
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Re: P-38 Gunsite
« Reply #9 on: May 17, 2009, 03:34:35 PM »








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Re: P-38 Gunsite
« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2009, 01:50:38 AM »
38 never got the K-14.
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Re: P-38 Gunsite
« Reply #11 on: May 20, 2009, 09:26:10 PM »
Quote from: Guppy35 on May 18, 2009, 01:50:38 AM
38 never got the K-14.

that is true, it never got the Merlin engine either  :furious :furious :furious
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Re: P-38 Gunsite
« Reply #12 on: May 20, 2009, 10:53:18 PM »

ive never researched what sight the 38 actually used but i use the p38 gunstar
its made for planes with nose-mounted guns :aok
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Re: P-38 Gunsite
« Reply #13 on: May 21, 2009, 07:55:36 AM »
Quote from: MachFly on May 20, 2009, 09:26:10 PM
that is true, it never got the Merlin engine either  :furious :furious :furious

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