Sat Sep 12, 2009 9:16 pm
JDK
I didn't realize that those were the gun troughs 'flipped"; bloody clever really. I thought that the deletion of the fuselage guns was standard on some weapons fitment configurations on the '190, so maybe it has less to do with it being a Mistel component, and more just the way it was gunned? Then again, not sure how much of a difference the two guns in question would make should some roaming Allied fighters come upon a Mistel combo....
cheers
greg v.
I didn't realize that those were the gun troughs 'flipped"; bloody clever really. I thought that the deletion of the fuselage guns was standard on some weapons fitment configurations on the '190, so maybe it has less to do with it being a Mistel component, and more just the way it was gunned? Then again, not sure how much of a difference the two guns in question would make should some roaming Allied fighters come upon a Mistel combo....
cheers
greg v.
Sat Sep 12, 2009 10:13 pm
gregv wrote:I didn't realize that those were the gun troughs 'flipped"; bloody clever really.
It is, if it's a recreation of 'as it was', but not if it was a restoration error, which is a suspicion I have.
gregv wrote:Then again, not sure how much of a difference the two guns in question would make should some roaming Allied fighters come upon a Mistel combo....
Remember the upper (piloted) unit would drop the lower (bomb) unit - and the piloted unit needed to get home! Guns would go well to help that. Dropping the guns would hardly make a difference, and fairing the gun troughs - why bother?
Sat Sep 12, 2009 10:57 pm
For those that want to know, here's the full aircraft.
