P-61 Black Widow Photos Round Two

[Jack Cook]

P-61A Ladd Field, AK 1945 note P-40N and P-51A in background

P-61A 422nd NFS 1944

P-61A 6th NFS turret maintenence 1944

P-61A 414th NFS MTO 1945

P-61As 6th NFS 1944

P-61 turret maintenence 6th NFS 1944

P-61A 1944

[tom d. friedman]

excellent!!

[bugazon]

Those are great photos. Thank you for posting Jack. You just made my day!

[B-25 C]

Excellent photos Jack. Thanks

[daveymac82c]

Wow Jack,

Thanks for posting those. Great pictures!

-David

[Django]

Wow, those are kick *ss Jack! Thanks!

[JägerMarty]

Great pics Jack, keep 'em coming

[mikoyan29]

Very cool pics.

[henning]

thanks jack!

wow.. great shots there.. thanks for posting these.. I've got every P61 book I've
ever come across and I don't think I've ever seen the picture of the guys workng
on the turret like that.

big smiles.. happy dreams... hoping to see the real thing flying soon!

henning

[Django]

I just stumbled upon this thread with alot of P-61 pics. As an added bonus, it's entirely in Japanese!

http://bbs.tiexue.net/post_1613475_1.html

page 2
http://bbs.tiexue.net/post_1613475_2.html

page 3
http://bbs.tiexue.net/post_1613475_3.html

I've never seen several of the shots there, and I would love a better shot of this one!

[Jesse C.]

Some of those pic are kinda neat, Django. How did you find it?

I think it is in Chinese and not Japanese, but then again, I don't speak or read either one of them!!

[Django]

Me neither!

I was looking up Moonlight Serenade and there was a pic of it in that thread.

[Pogo]

Okay, I know the answer to this ... except that I have Alzheimer's at the tender young age of damnearfifty so I haff to ask: What'd the BW use for roll control? Flaperons? Flaps 'n' spoilers?

Also, anyone care to spell out how that upper turret worked? Or mind mentioning a good way where I might learn more about night fighters in general?

[Mark Nankivil]

Hi Pogo -

Roll control used spoilers - you can see them in the last photo looking down on the aircraft and they are located just forward of the flap hinge line. There's a small aileron outboard for "feel". Check out:

http://www.princeton.edu/~stengel/MAE331Lecture8.pdf on the 3rd page...

HTH! Mark

[262crew]

[quote="Jack Cook"]
P-61A Ladd Field, AK 1945 note P-40N and P-51A in background

Not sure I see a P-51 but I see a P-47 for sure!