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The position of the machine gun behind moving parts of the transporter would seem to pose a similar problem to early fighters firing through the prop.
Was there an interrupted device to prevent Fire through the manual handling device?
Was there an interrupted device to prevent Fire through the manual handling device?
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That wasted at least 1/2 an hour. of my day 
It appears to be a Colt-Browning M1895 ... M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Indeed, if you Google "Colt Machine Guns", and click on the "Images" link, you will find Jumbo's photo
It appears to be a Colt-Browning M1895 ... M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Indeed, if you Google "Colt Machine Guns", and click on the "Images" link, you will find Jumbo's photo
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MPN11,
Thank you for your painstaking research ! (YLSNED). I never knew that Browning made a gas-operated gun (thought they were all recoil-operated).
Obviously, the low rate of fire (one-third that of our WW2 aircraft Brownings) made the cooling problem much easier, but the gun much less suitable for high speed aircraft use.
When I went through ITW in June '41, they couldn't spare any Brownings for us to practise on, so we had to make do with the old Vickers "K" G.O. gun (don't think I could strip one down now, though !) But it was a good gun in its time, I'm told.
Cheers, Danny.
Thank you for your painstaking research ! (YLSNED). I never knew that Browning made a gas-operated gun (thought they were all recoil-operated).
Obviously, the low rate of fire (one-third that of our WW2 aircraft Brownings) made the cooling problem much easier, but the gun much less suitable for high speed aircraft use.
When I went through ITW in June '41, they couldn't spare any Brownings for us to practise on, so we had to make do with the old Vickers "K" G.O. gun (don't think I could strip one down now, though !) But it was a good gun in its time, I'm told.
Cheers, Danny.
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Danny, the BAR (Browing Automatic Rifle) used during WW2 and up to Nam was also gas operated 
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Gun Review: Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) - The Truth About Guns
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Gun Review: Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) - The Truth About Guns
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Nutloose,
Thanks for the link !
The only rifles and LMGs I remember being generally used as infantry weapons in the British Army in WWII were the SMLE, the Bren, the Lewis gun, the Sten and Sterling (and some Thompson guns in Special Forces and the Home Guard). To be frank, I'd never heard of the BAR before, but it looks like a very useful bit of kit.
Wiki gives me:
List of common World War II infantry weapons> 32 United Kingdom>
Rifles
No. III Lee-Enfield
No. 4 Mk1 Lee-Enfield
Rifle No. 5 Mk I
Rifle, .303 Pattern 1914
De Lisle carbine
M1 carbine (limited)
Marlin Model 1894
Sub-machine guns
Sten - about 4 million produced from all sources
Lanchester
Thompson M1928, M1928A1, M1
Sterling Submachine Gun
(They describe the Bren - gas-operated- as a "Light Machine Gun")
In '46, after demob, I joined the TA Rifle Club in Southport (we fired on the Altcar Ranges). They loaned me a .303 "Ross" rifle which I kept at home (nobody bothered about it - I'm sure I had no kind of licence - but of course I had no ammo, that was issued only on the range, and every round accounted for). And they had an indoor range at the TA Drill Hall: Parker-Hale and Webley "Match Rifles" (Martini-Henry action, long .22 rim-fire cartridges).
Wiki describes the "Ross", but I'm sure mine didn't have the "straight-pull" bolt, just the same action as a SMLE, but it had only a five-round magazine.
As jonw66 says: YLSNED ! Cheers, Danny.
PS: At Altcar, I once won a "Spoon Shoot" competition (a tiny siver coffee cup spoon with 'crossed rifles' on the handle) - but that was all ! Kept it for years before it got lost. D.
Thanks for the link !
The only rifles and LMGs I remember being generally used as infantry weapons in the British Army in WWII were the SMLE, the Bren, the Lewis gun, the Sten and Sterling (and some Thompson guns in Special Forces and the Home Guard). To be frank, I'd never heard of the BAR before, but it looks like a very useful bit of kit.
Wiki gives me:
List of common World War II infantry weapons> 32 United Kingdom>
Rifles
No. III Lee-Enfield
No. 4 Mk1 Lee-Enfield
Rifle No. 5 Mk I
Rifle, .303 Pattern 1914
De Lisle carbine
M1 carbine (limited)
Marlin Model 1894
Sub-machine guns
Sten - about 4 million produced from all sources
Lanchester
Thompson M1928, M1928A1, M1
Sterling Submachine Gun
(They describe the Bren - gas-operated- as a "Light Machine Gun")
In '46, after demob, I joined the TA Rifle Club in Southport (we fired on the Altcar Ranges). They loaned me a .303 "Ross" rifle which I kept at home (nobody bothered about it - I'm sure I had no kind of licence - but of course I had no ammo, that was issued only on the range, and every round accounted for). And they had an indoor range at the TA Drill Hall: Parker-Hale and Webley "Match Rifles" (Martini-Henry action, long .22 rim-fire cartridges).
Wiki describes the "Ross", but I'm sure mine didn't have the "straight-pull" bolt, just the same action as a SMLE, but it had only a five-round magazine.
As jonw66 says: YLSNED ! Cheers, Danny.
PS: At Altcar, I once won a "Spoon Shoot" competition (a tiny siver coffee cup spoon with 'crossed rifles' on the handle) - but that was all ! Kept it for years before it got lost. D.
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I think the 'tube arrangement' that appears to connect the barrel sheathing to the rear leg of the tripod is in fact the vertical traverse mechanism of said tripod. Interesting that the stops wouldn't really seem to fully protect poor Jumbos noggin with the barrel in the fully depressed position..
Con-Pilot - Not necessarily Lockheed. The program was much bigger than U-2 and involved subcontractors all over the place, and the GRU could hardly have missed it. Not to mention the sudden demand from P&W and LH for a metric ****ton of titanium and the tools needed to work with it.
