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Title: Q:F6F version
Post by: ramzey on July 06, 2004, 12:58:34 AM
(http://www.przestworzadws.netlook.pl/files/f6f.jpg)

im wonder whats do windows behinde cockpit
photo recon version, windows for cameras? or for passangers?
anyone?
Title: Q:F6F version
Post by: Slash27 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.
Title: Q:F6F version
Post by: ra 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.  

ra
Title: Re: Q:F6F version
Post by: Guppy35 on July 06, 2004, 12:03:14 PM
Quote
Originally posted by ramzey
(http://www.przestworzadws.netlook.pl/files/f6f.jpg)

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.

Dan/Slack
Title: Re: Q:F6F version
Post by: joeblogs on July 06, 2004, 12:38:20 PM
Original 737-100


Quote
Originally posted by ramzey
(http://www.przestworzadws.netlook.pl/files/f6f.jpg)

im wonder whats do windows behinde cockpit
photo recon version, windows for cameras? or for passangers?
anyone?
Title: Q:F6F version
Post by: F4UDOA 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.
Title: Q:F6F version
Post by: Grits on July 07, 2004, 02:24:37 PM
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Originally posted by F4UDOA
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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