Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: bustr on September 11, 2013, 06:36:30 PM
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Found this one looking through a photo album from someone's grandfather. He took the photo inside of his F4u in July 45. It's copy write so I'm not posting it. Seems this is a rare late war reticle. You can dig around at this WEB site to find the photo.
http://adamsplanes.com
Each branch of the military and even air groups had contracts for sight heads and reticle inserts. The NAVY seems to have had the most variations on a single theme through out ww2. When I started this game I thought there was only the single Mk8 reticle. Now I'm up to five.
You can get it in the current Historic pack. Just make sure to copy both the bmp and mil file to your sights directory. Kill the two popup windows that happen when you start the download.
Download Here ===>> http://www66.zippyshare.com/v/43266549/file.html
Mk8 Late 1945 version.
(http://imageshack.com/a/img855/4459/g5nd.gif)
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Do we have context on the other versions of the Mk.8? When each version was used, or if it was in a particular aircraft?
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Honestly, because sight heads and reticle in the case of the NAVY were often contracted by air groups or air support organizations. I get the inference that these are results of pilot experience in combat and their feed back. I have no clue how many reticle for the Mk8 were in use during ww2. I've only recently begun to find pictures from personal collections. And then there was the Mk8 used by the AAF that had the N9 AtA and AtG reticles mounted in it.
The original Mk8 reticle with the hash ladder carried on into Viet Nam being used as the Mk20 in Skyraiders, A26 and other aircraft that used a collimator reflector gunsight for air to ground work.
Context, seems three of them are for air to air work including one as a night fighter reticle. The remaining two for air to ground work based on the preponderance of Mil hash.
This link will get you to the NAVY 1945 manual for glide bombing that instructs you to just how an@l the NAVY was about those Mil hash marks.
http://aviationshoppe.com/wwii-us-navy-glide-bombing-how-to-do-it-a-66.html
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hry, I cant down load from that link!! How do I get your sight packs?
thanks
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Seconded. Any chance of getting a new link?