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Did anyone see the A20 upgrade screen shots?
« on: January 09, 2019, 03:45:11 PM »
Skuzzy just posted previews.











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Re: Did anyone see the A20 upgrade screen shots?
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2019, 03:45:59 PM »
Interesting ventral gun addition.
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Re: Did anyone see the A20 upgrade screen shots?
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2019, 03:50:39 PM »
Y'all just made Drano's day....

Looks good
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Re: Did anyone see the A20 upgrade screen shots?
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2019, 04:07:46 PM »
Another one bites the dust!  The list of old models is getting mighty short.  Huzzah!

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Re: Did anyone see the A20 upgrade screen shots?
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2019, 04:13:44 PM »

Nicely done.  :aok

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Re: Did anyone see the A20 upgrade screen shots?
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2019, 04:14:38 PM »
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.
















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Re: Did anyone see the A20 upgrade screen shots?
« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2019, 04:33:26 PM »
Looks great.
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Re: Did anyone see the A20 upgrade screen shots?
« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2019, 04:43:54 PM »
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.











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Re: Did anyone see the A20 upgrade screen shots?
« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2019, 04:45:33 PM »
Holy ........... nice just does not quite describe that.
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Re: Did anyone see the A20 upgrade screen shots?
« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2019, 05:09:54 PM »


Wait...........

I thought HTC had already abandoned all development on AHIII?

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Re: Did anyone see the A20 upgrade screen shots?
« Reply #10 on: January 09, 2019, 05:23:18 PM »
Here is the bullet proof glass.








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.


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Re: Did anyone see the A20 upgrade screen shots?
« Reply #11 on: January 09, 2019, 05:37:35 PM »
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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Re: Did anyone see the A20 upgrade screen shots?
« Reply #12 on: January 09, 2019, 06:50:16 PM »
That is nice!  Thanks HTC.   :cheers:
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Re: Did anyone see the A20 upgrade screen shots?
« Reply #13 on: January 09, 2019, 06:57:49 PM »
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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Re: Did anyone see the A20 upgrade screen shots?
« Reply #14 on: January 09, 2019, 07:07:53 PM »
Nice.  :aok