RAAF PBY 1953
Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:54 am
14/9/1953. Children in Bowen playing on the wing of a disused seaplane. Picture by Fred Carew. Neg/no C814 The Courier-Mail Photo Archive.
Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:24 am
Is that housing on top of the cockpit a spotlight?
Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:25 am
Ztex wrote:Is that housing on top of the cockpit a spotlight?
Radar. The fibreglass(?) nosecone's gone.
Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:37 am
RADAR huh?
I guess irradiation of the cockpit was not a concern back then.
Yikes...
Interesting...didn't know they mounted RADAR like that. Didn't the US mount some on the wing of the PBY?
learned something today.
I guess irradiation of the cockpit was not a concern back then.
Yikes...
Interesting...didn't know they mounted RADAR like that. Didn't the US mount some on the wing of the PBY?
learned something today.
Thu Jan 29, 2009 12:02 pm
The Radar behind them helped keep them warm! That is ausual spot for that type of radar, the other spot was up on that step just behind that one on the wing support pylon.but there were a bunch of different types mounted out on the wings and on the forward fuselage.