To: Snake65
...Technically it's a GAU-8/A Avenger, but whatever he wants to call it, I'm not surprised the enemy fire ceased. It is a hellacious weapon....In the photos at the site you linked, it looks like the gun is not mounted on the aircraft centerline. I wonder why.
7 posted on
08/18/2004 1:47:01 PM PDT by
FReepaholic
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To: tscislaw
I believe that the barrel that is firing is centerlined and it's like at 9 o'clock.
8 posted on
08/18/2004 1:49:25 PM PDT by
wordsofearnest
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To: tscislaw
It is very close to the centerline but not right on. My understanding is that it has something to do with the nose landing gear (also offset) and also the fact that the firing barrel (at the nine o'clock position) of the Gatling design would then be exactly on the plane's centerline.
10 posted on
08/18/2004 1:53:29 PM PDT by
Snake65
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To: tscislaw
here is a photo to show why. The landing gear is also offset to the right.
30 posted on
08/18/2004 5:47:05 PM PDT by
HighWheeler
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To: tscislaw
In the photos at the site you linked, it looks like the gun is not mounted on the aircraft centerline. I wonder why.
The gun is mounted on the aircraft centerline because of its massive amount of recoil. Fairchild-Republic was given the gun, and tasked to build an aircraft to carry it.
55 posted on
08/19/2004 12:55:56 PM PDT by
wjcsux
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