Can you identify this plane?
Mon Jan 07, 2008 5:01 pm
Description:
European Theater
Allied Air Forces
2-man bomber: 1 pilot; 1 tail gunner (in a separate turret).
I was glancing over a critical analysis of a psychological study. The authors of the study in question claimed the patient, on which their study was based, was tail gunner in such an aircraft. In contrast, the author of the article attacking the study claimed that the study was unsound, in part because no such aircraft existed. It would be interesting if you WIXers could validate the patient's story.
Article link is below.
http://csicop.org/si/2003-05/repressed.html
European Theater
Allied Air Forces
2-man bomber: 1 pilot; 1 tail gunner (in a separate turret).
I was glancing over a critical analysis of a psychological study. The authors of the study in question claimed the patient, on which their study was based, was tail gunner in such an aircraft. In contrast, the author of the article attacking the study claimed that the study was unsound, in part because no such aircraft existed. It would be interesting if you WIXers could validate the patient's story.
Article link is below.
http://csicop.org/si/2003-05/repressed.html
Mon Jan 07, 2008 5:07 pm
Well, it's not exactly a tail turret but the turret of the A-20 faces rearward and has a single pilot.
Mon Jan 07, 2008 5:14 pm
Mon Jan 07, 2008 5:15 pm
As far as "allied" airplanes go, could have been a Mosquito?
Ken
Ken
Mon Jan 07, 2008 5:18 pm
Ken wrote:As far as "allied" airplanes go, could have been a Mosquito?
No
The Mosquito had 2 crew sitting side-by-side, and no tail gunner or rearward-facing turret.
Mon Jan 07, 2008 5:30 pm
Don't have an answer yet, but don't forget there were TWO wars fought in the ETO with allied air forces.
Mon Jan 07, 2008 5:37 pm
I would go with the Defian for the simple fact that I have no idea what other aircraft would be like that other than a TBM!
Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:02 pm
But the Defiant wasn't a bomber, was it? I'd go with an A-20. Most "non aviation" types don't know the differnce between a "tail gunner" and "turret gunner."
SN
SN
Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:11 pm
As has already been hinted at...
Was the patient perhaps a postwar immigrant from Eastern Europe? The Soviet Union was one of the Allies during World War II (or The Great Patriotic War, as the Soviets called it); and the Sukhoi Su2 was a bomber (well, a strike aircraft, which is close) that was operated by one pilot, and one gunner in a TBM-like aft turret...
S.
Was the patient perhaps a postwar immigrant from Eastern Europe? The Soviet Union was one of the Allies during World War II (or The Great Patriotic War, as the Soviets called it); and the Sukhoi Su2 was a bomber (well, a strike aircraft, which is close) that was operated by one pilot, and one gunner in a TBM-like aft turret...
S.
Tue Jan 08, 2008 2:23 pm
If they have the guys name then by consulting his DD 214 and seeing which units he served with it should be a simple matter to cross check aircraft in such units.
Wed Jan 09, 2008 9:01 pm
Could it possibly be a Bristol Blenheim or a Beaufighter?
Those Blackburns could also be on the right track.
And as for the Mosquito, I think I remember reading somewhere that they did experiment with a rear turret.
Cheers,
David
Those Blackburns could also be on the right track.
And as for the Mosquito, I think I remember reading somewhere that they did experiment with a rear turret.
Cheers,
David
Wed Jan 09, 2008 9:16 pm
TBM, TBF Avenger? .... torpedo bomber
Wed Jan 09, 2008 9:24 pm
Fairey Battle? The turret wasn't seperate as such but it did face backward.
Walrus
Walrus
Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:41 am
daveymac82c wrote:And as for the Mosquito, I think I remember reading somewhere that they did experiment with a rear turret.
Cheers,
David
Mock-up only. It was on the prototype IIRC and the drag alone knocked 20 mph off the top speed.
Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:35 am
single pilot with tail gunner/turret A-24/SBD, A-25/ SB2C, TBM?TBF, Vengence, Bermuda? 