Aug 012010
Again from the SDAM, via Mark Nankivil.
And note the waist gunner. He ain’t taking no crap offa nobody.
The ergonomics seems unfortunate. Any system where the baseline level involves someone half-crouching is asking for trouble.
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The crouching bit is one problem; the other one the gunner/radioman has is that he’s expected to man either gun as needed, unless a extra crewman is carried so both guns can be crewed.
At least he gets a seat for his use when he’s not firing the guns:
http://www.maam.org/airshow/b25_waist.htm
The lightweight 75 mm cannon in the lower port nose also ended up being used on the M24 Chaffee tank BTW.
Crouching might not be as bad as permanently kneeling at the tail gun!
At least you got a semi-seat to rest your butt on back there.
Just getting a pair of rear guns installed was a major accomplishment.
The Doolittle raiders B-25’s had a couple of broom handles sticking out of their tailcones to hopefully convince Japanese fighter pilots that they had tailguns of some sort: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h53000/h53422.jpg
A Falcon style quad laser cannon would be comfortable
Ever notice that the gravity field in those turrets is in a different direction than that in the rest of the Falcon?