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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: bustr on January 09, 2019, 03:45:11 PM
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Skuzzy just posted previews.
(https://www.hitechcreations.com/images/stories/screenshots/a20g_bostoniii/a20-havoc-0.jpg)
(https://www.hitechcreations.com/images/stories/screenshots/a20g_bostoniii/a20-havoc-5.jpg)
(https://www.hitechcreations.com/images/stories/screenshots/a20g_bostoniii/a20-havoc-4.jpg)
(https://www.hitechcreations.com/images/stories/screenshots/a20g_bostoniii/a20-havoc-2.jpg)
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Interesting ventral gun addition.
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Y'all just made Drano's day....
Looks good
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Another one bites the dust! The list of old models is getting mighty short. Huzzah!
Wiley.
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Nicely done. :aok
:salute,
CptTrips
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Manual for the A20G shows it shipped with the N3A optical gunsight and it's prominent in WW2 squad photos for that version along with the bullet proof glass panel set just back of the gunsight. The flip down iron sight was left mounted as a backup. I sent Waffle all of that info a few years back. Both the A20G and Boston had a bulletproof glass panel just in front of the pilot which looks to be missing from the new screen shots along with the N3A gunsight.
The manual with the N3A info is the 10 November 1944 manual for the A20G\J and P70 versions. Here is the bulletproof glass for the American and British versions of the A20 along with a good photo of the N3A sight head and mounting location.
(https://i.postimg.cc/SQ5YZzCF/531871802-892cf6f5e3-z.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/BnfL39mm/8268596070-c91ff92cd6-b.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/T1ZyhZfY/A-20-GTurret-Info007.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/TYDLBYJy/72220ed2328e45619770c874abcf343d.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/CxCZLPtS/j050-470-GP-69-2-416-4-SEPT-44-LTHILL.jpg)
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Looks great.
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B3 sight head used on the N3C optical gunsight in the A20G. The head is none tilt able due to the gunsight mounted in front of the bullet proof glass.
(http://www.aircraft-gunsights.com/wp-content/gallery/b-3-head/00000002-copy.jpg)
(http://www.aircraft-gunsights.com/wp-content/gallery/b-3-head/ebay-002-8.jpg)
(http://www.aircraft-gunsights.com/wp-content/gallery/b-3-head/p1030090.jpg)
(http://www.aircraft-gunsights.com/wp-content/gallery/b-3-head/img_7677.jpg)
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Holy ........... nice just does not quite describe that.
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Wait...........
I thought HTC had already abandoned all development on AHIII?
:noid
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Here is the bullet proof glass.
(https://farm8.static.flickr.com/7345/11242849225_8a2703a6d1_b.jpg)
(https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5487/11264758475_9cd835cb7f_b.jpg)
Top of this photo you see the hole for the N3A optical gunsight to be set in past the bottom of the bullet proof glass.
(http://aussiemodeller.com.au/Images/History/Mead_Misc/Mead_A20G/01_A20G_01_cockpit_V.jpg)
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Wow! Our A20 cockpit from the outside looks like the WT cockpit. I was just trying to find how they did the 3D artwork.
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That is nice! Thanks HTC. :cheers:
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Wow! Our A20 cockpit from the outside looks like the WT cockpit. I was just trying to find how they did the 3D artwork.
Which "they"?
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Nice. :aok
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Nice! :aok
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Which "they"?
War Thunder's 3D production team did not create an interior cockpit for the DB7, Boston or A20G and the exterior view shows almost a duplicate of the exterior view from our new screen shots. No armored glass to protect the pilot or N3C gunsight. The A20 production models including export had an armored windscreen to protect the pilot. The glass nose bomber version(s) only had the flip down iron sight while the P70, A20-G\H had an N3A optical sight and the flip down iron ring as a back up. The lend lease A20 to Russia was retro fitted with their optical gunsight since it was an attack bomber along with they practiced masthead bombing of shipping and had a specific reticle for targeting ships in that role. The pilot had protective glass in front of his face since both the attacker and bomber versions had forward firing guns for straffing.
Here is an A20H attacker being restored in NY, it was shipped from the factory with the gunsight hole in the instrument deck like the G, it's a stock A20G with more powerful engines R-2600-29. The engines the A20G shipped with were going out of production R-2600-23. In the picture you can see one of the two lower mounting flanges for the bottom of the armored glass.
(http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/photogallery/a-20/ig_a-20_havoc_1600_109.jpg)
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More pictures of the bullet proof glass in front of the pilot.
(https://i.postimg.cc/QN1cXW4g/cockpit-20121109.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/TYxghYFz/cockpit-20121110.jpg)
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Y'all just made Drano's day....
Looks good
Yeah that's nice! Where's Cobia to REALLY show us how that thing works?
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Yeah that's nice! Where's Cobia to REALLY show us how that thing works?
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No doubt.... :noid :noid :noid
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Looks great.
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All hail bustr for aces high office!!!!! :rofl :rofl
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it's there - just didnt put it on the low exterior only model.
(https://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=395723.0;attach=31187)
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Both the A20G and Boston had a bulletproof glass panel just in front of the pilot ...
What type of round could it stop?
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What type of round could it stop?
Thank the lord someone replied to him so he will stop posting about the bulletproof glass. :)
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it's there - just didnt put it on the low exterior only model.
(https://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=395723.0;attach=31187)
And the N3A optical gunsight which all A20G\H shipped from the factory with? The iron pull down sight was left in as a backup since the differences between the bomber and attacker had to do with noses and support for the third crewman to aim and drop bombs. Otherwise the pilot compartment difference was the G\H got a hole in the deck forward of the bullet proof glass and an N3A optical gunsight. The iron sight was left flipped up over the pilot's head becasue of the N3A which made a superior aiming device due to collimating lens effect. The pilot didn't have to try and hold his head steady while holding the ring and bead lined up against the vibrations and motion forces in the cockpit during combat. And he didn't have to be looking directly at the reflector plate as long as he could see the dot and some part of the ring for his strafing runs since the guns were harmonized to the optical dot. It didn't matter that the post was still on the hood since he could look to one side past it. I'm sure you have looked at all the photos of A20G attackers on the Internet and seen the gunsight and the post on the hood in front of it.
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This is the cockpit for an early P70 prototype, the sight head on the N2 is a custom product from Douglas and you can see how high the pilot's eye line is. There is no bullet proof glass to help the pilot see in the dark. P70's shot down very few planes in the dark during WW2.
(https://i.postimg.cc/wBk0pTVQ/n-3-on-p-70.jpg)
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What type of round could it stop?
Get the book WREAKING HAVOC by Joseph Rutter. It's an autobiography by a guy who flew A-20s in the Pacific. Pretty interesting read.
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Looks great.
Shortest ACHOO post of all time :devil
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Shortest ACHOO post of all time :devil
Bustr must be rubbing off on him.
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Nice!
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Shortest ACHOO post of all time :devil
*glares*
Bustr must be rubbing off on him.
*glares again*
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Looks like a fantastic update to a very important plane to AH. :rock
You really get a much better feel for what a beautiful plane this was. :salute
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What AH1 planes are left, besides the Tempon?
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I think the Temp is it.
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so when do we gwt to fly w the new colours?
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Yes, the Tempest is the only remaining AH1-era ride yet to be updated.
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Nice pics, Bustr!
And nice A-20, HTC!
Boston III's are in the upcoming (February) Scenario "Nuisance Raids 1942".
https://ahevents.net/index.php/events/scenarios/current-or-next-scenario