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Title: WW2 Plane Trivia Question #1
Post by: Bullethead on April 02, 2002, 09:36:46 AM
Rather than post up pics for folks to identify, I'm just going to ask questions.  It's up to you all to search your memories and books to find the answers.

#1:  Can you name 3 WW2 planes, each from a different country, that mounted their tail turrets higher on the plane than their mid-upper turrets?

By higher on the plane, I mean that when the fuselage is level, the base of the tail turret is above the base of the mid-upper turret.
Title: Re: WW2 Plane Trivia Question #1
Post by: HoHun on April 02, 2002, 11:12:26 AM
Hi Bullethead,

>#1:  Can you name 3 WW2 planes, each from a different country, that mounted their tail turrets higher on the plane than their mid-upper turrets?

I can name one: The Dornier Do 24.

Dornier-Fairchild just went bankrupt, by the way. (And they had kept working at a Do 24 derivative during the 1970s and 1980s.)

Regards,

Henning (HoHun)
Title: WW2 Plane Trivia Question #1
Post by: Jester on April 02, 2002, 05:06:28 PM
Japanese MAVIS flying boat
British Short R.24/31 flying boat
German DO.24 flying boat
US PBM Mariner (Maybe)
Title: WW2 Plane Trivia Question #1
Post by: Bullethead on April 02, 2002, 05:33:06 PM
Damn, somebody actually read this thread.  Some folks must be really bored :)

Good job.  All the correct answers that I know of are flying boats and Andijg got all the ones I was thinking about:  Mavis, Do24, and PBM
Title: WW2 Plane Trivia Question #1
Post by: Viper17 on April 02, 2002, 06:43:29 PM
And all the B-25.
Title: WW2 Plane Trivia Question #1
Post by: superpug1 on April 02, 2002, 08:11:50 PM
No! the B-25s dorsal gun was a little higher.:p