Vintage pic for the A-25 fans

[Tiger Tim]

I heard you guys liked A-25s...


What the heck is the plastic dome thingy in front of the windshield all about?

-Tim

[51fixer]

I heard you guys liked A-25s...


What the heck is the plastic dome thingy in front of the windshield all about?

-Tim

No image shows up, just a question mark.

[Tiger Tim]

I see... It shows up for me in my original post and again when you quoted me. How about something clickable?
http://ww2db.com/images/air_helldiver7.jpg

-Tim

[51fixer]

I see... It shows up for me in my original post and again when you quoted me. How about something clickable?
http://ww2db.com/images/air_helldiver7.jpg

-Tim

Is this somehow password enabled or do you need to be a member?
This is what I got when I clicked the link-


Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /images/air_helldiver7.jpg on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

[Warhawk]

The first two times Iopened this thread there was a red X where the picture should be. However the link worked fine. When I opened the thread this time the picture appeared in the first and second posts just fine. It's weird.

[Tiger Tim]

Okay, how about now?


Still wondering about the clear cover ahead of the cockpit.

-Tim

[Fouga23]

It's protected against linking. Try to open the main site first:
http://ww2db.com/
and then
http://ww2db.com/images/air_helldiver7.jpg

[51fixer]

Okay, how about now?


Still wondering about the clear cover ahead of the cockpit.

-Tim

That works, thanks.
Gun camera comes to mind.

[Taigh Ramey]

I second the gun camera motion.

[mike furline]

Gun camera? Maybe just the mount for a gun camera? The aircraft in the background have it as well.

[airnutz]

Gun camera? Maybe just the mount for a gun camera? The aircraft in the background have it as well.

Yeah..been looking this up this morning. Not on SB2C's, but have seen quite a few photo's of A-25A's where it's there. Maybe something to do with auto-pilot, but that's just a guess from from a fellow(Ryan Hamilton), who described a mod be made to an SB2C kit to make an A-25A. USAFM is restoring an A-25...mebbee Mustangdriver can ask one of his contacts about it?

[Taigh Ramey]

Gun camera? Maybe just the mount for a gun camera? [/img]

I'm sorry, I should have been more clear in my seconding of the gun camera theory. It looks like the bolt pattern on the mount matches the one for the AN N-6 gun camera but the camera is not present.

[JDK]

Very interesting.

The Shrikes weren't shooting, but towing a drogue to be shot at, so there's no point in a conventional gun camera set up, it's presumably something to record or signal hits on a drogue. But if so what an odd place for it! (All guesswork, except that they were the catchers, not the senders...)

Could it be something to tell the pilot that the drogue (and more critically the cable) had been dropped prior to landing?

These flights involved towing a target sleeve on a long wire past ground anti-aircraft gunners, who then shot at the sleeve with live ammunition.

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsh ... asp?id=480

Another wild guess was something to signal or position correct line being flown for the target pass - very unlikely.