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Wixers, I need close up pictures or specs on the guns on a Mk VI Canadair F86. Have to make plugs for the gun openings but want them to be historically accurate. 1, 2, 3...game on. And yes, it's T33driver's. Check out latest Warbird Digest.

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I don't know if these will help, but for info (from the Sabre 6 IPC and F-86E Maint Instructions), the top plugs are different to the lower two (two types, six locations). I just looked at a blast panel and they look similar in shape though.







Any help?

I don't know if it helped or not but I found the diagrams extremely interesting. Thanks!

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The challenge now is to find photographic proof that they were widely used: I suspect not!

Sadly my NAA Tech Rep chums are no longer with us to answer this type of minutae.

Great info, thanks. Seems these replaced the tape over the gun ports in WWII. Sabremech has also turned me on to the plugs and thinks he may have a source.

Wonderful place this WIX is.

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I do know that they are installed on the Saber that is at the ACAM in Halifax N.S.

I assume that when the first round of the first burst was fired, the projectile popped the rubber plug out?

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That was the idea. I thought I'd have trouble finding evidence of these being fitted, but a quick look through the archives revealed a LOT of evidence of their use! Difficult to get a good image (they're usually in shade), but here is one of an RAF 234 Sqn Sabre 4, circa 1955:



Airman is Tom Broomhead, for whom the photo should also be credited.