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Terry

Terry

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Never knew this existed until this morning. Picture from Paul Allen's FHC.

How would you control the impact point, they didn't have the means to compute it.
 
Terry said:
Never knew this existed until this morning. Picture from Paul Allen's FHC.

How would you control the impact point, they didn't have the means to compute it.
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Looks like the high speed version of "Puff" and "Spooky"

Dave
 
I'm trying to figure out why they needed those troughs in the nose cone. I don't think the original F9Fs of any mark had such a significant cutout for the gun barrels, they were under the nose I thought. You can bet your bean sprouts they'd be catching the spent brass and links internally as well, what with those intakes only a few feet behind the muzzles of those guns. What a FOD risk otherwise!
 
warchild said:
Perhaps its a night fighter variant??
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+1

Reminds me of "schrage musik" (sorry, too ascii-illiterate to find an umlaut on short notice) when the barrels are angled upward like that.

Edit: After checking Brad Elward's "Grumman F9F Panther/Cougar" book, this is apparently the Emerson electric turret, intended to give pilots more flexibility in an air-to-air engagement. The belief was that jet v jet was going to be too fast for a pilot to physically track an adversary, so the turret would do all the work. Early computer technology just wasn't up to the task, however, so this never got out of a test concept.
 
That's a pretty cool concept. With modern fire-control systems I'm surprised they haven't put something like that on modern fighters.
 
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