The ball turret hung under a B-17’s belly with two machine guns, and its gunner flew curled up inside. A normal parachute had no room in there, so it stayed in the plane above him. His turret also had its own cut-off cam, which quieted the guns as they crossed each propeller.
The propeller cam rests on veterans’ memories and a lecture, not on a manual we could read. Sources are the USAAF Resource Center’s Sperry ball turret page, the National Museum of the US Air Force, Aviation of WWII and Warbird Information Exchange. Sources differ on how long a gunner stayed folded, so the video says hours. The machines are simplified 3D models built for this channel, with no markings.
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Seems to me he would sit inside the plane until needed.
That's the boomer generation, get the job done was the only priority no working smarter.
IF NOBODY JOINS THE MILITARY NOBODY DIES FOR BULLSHIT REASONS….😮😮😮
As usual, your facts suk !!!!!!!!!!!
The horror of getting a hamstring cramp 😬
The long version sets this turret's cam beside the top turret's, then tests the top turret. It is called How the B-17's Top Turret Overruled Its Own Gunner.
I was a ball turret gunner in a B 17 during my service in CoD2: Big Red One, I still have flashbacks to this day
Id be screwed at 5'5
Thank you Jesus for those Gunners
"Memphis Belle" was a great movie about the subject of what the men on these bombers went through. In that movie, Sean Austin played the ball turret gunner.
"is my posture cooked?"
Bro's posture :
Terrifying
Sh.tty american design.
Hero
Our heroes thank you for your service.
My grandpa was a tailgunner in a B24 bomber in ww2.
Only little guys could fit.
I can fit inside that B-17 Bomber Ball Turret .
They had Big Ball back then
Today I don't think they would be able to do it
God bless the brave men who offered there lives to take us to victory. Many were lost that more could be saved. We solute you.
It's appalling how US military engineering designs left the most cramped and egregious working conditions for the soldiers —in planes, tanks and ships. There's zero rationalization for it though many lame explanations were given.
He must have balls of steel too