Footage from historical planes how ball turrets work etc!

See if this posts, it is footage from a 2016 living history with airplanes. It has some footage on how to get in the ball turret etc.

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I have gotten rid of my Facebook a while ago. You have an .mp4 link?

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Sadly no, I can ask around :frowning: .

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Oh darn. Goddamn FB :disappointed:

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Well here is a little bit older footage from the Witchcraft B-24 somewhere over the Stockton Desert! Not nicely black and white but people will get the idea. It is amazing how well it is restored and it has a working Norden Bomb Sight. (PS they ar shooting blank and using cement training bombs like they used to train with in WW2.) They also have a “V-mail” facilities which allowed compressing letters on “microfiche” and blow them up to small V-mail letters to save transport space.

Cool stuff!

PS They made previous arrangements with the owner of the ranch/bombing range, we weren’t bombing as part of some renewed Lincoln County Ranch war or something :innocent:

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Oh, V-mail. :blush: My Grandpa in his later years still lamented those “good old times” when his letters to my Grandma were V-mailed :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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