Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: udet on July 26, 2002, 02:16:50 PM
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If anybody has pictures of the radioman's instrument panel in the B24 or any other US bomber please post them here or give the link.
Thank you
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Udet if you have B-17 2 (flop of a game btw) they have a pretty good setup of the radioman position in the B-17 for the game. I am not sure how close it is in accuracy but I would think it would not be far off the mark since they wanted internal visuals to be a big part of the game.
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Here's a picture of the radio operator's station in the B-17G "Mary Alice" at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford:
(http://www.ratol.fi/~tmannine/pics/ma_radio_post.jpg)
From the B-17G "Picadilly Princess" at the Fantasy of Flight museum in Polk City, FL:
(http://www.ratol.fi/~tmannine/pics/pp_radio_room.jpg)
(http://www.ratol.fi/~tmannine/pics/pp_radio_operator.jpg)
From the B-17G "Nine-O-Nine", maintained by the Collings Foundation:
(http://www.ratol.fi/~tmannine/pics/909_radio.jpg)
Starboard side of radio room:
(http://www.ratol.fi/~tmannine/pics/909_radio_equipment.jpg)
And the rear bulkhead of the radio room:
(http://www.ratol.fi/~tmannine/pics/909_radio_to_ball.jpg)
I hope that gives you some of the information you need. Notice that the Collings Foundation aircraft is missing cabling visible in the Duxford aircraft.
The images were found in the B-17 Image Gallery (http://www.ratol.fi/~tmannine/b-17/b-17_images.htm) of Tony Manninen's web site (http://www.ratol.fi/~tmannine/index.html).
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thanks a lot guys.
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i was looking for a radio tuning gauge that I got (thanks,muckmaw) :) looking through the pictures on the page that shiva provided, i found it in the cockpit of the B17, overhead panel.