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tulsaboy
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The curator at the museum I work at located this picture of an A-20 at the Tulsa modification facility. We didn't know what the large object hanging from underneath the fuselage was. Radome? Thoughts, ideas?

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seen pictures of that somewhere before
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Yes, I think you are correct. It was an airborne radar as the aircraft was a night interceptor. It was replaced by the P-61 in the European Theater.

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Its a ferry fuel tank, not radar. Unless it was ground mapping...

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Ditto on the ferry tank.

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i was gonna say, i never saw a p-70 nightfighter havoc with radar like that!! but then i've never seen a ferry tank like that either!!

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Kevin,my A-20G flight manual shows the object in question to be a 374 gallon droppable belly fuel tank.Since I'm still picture posting illiterate on WIX,I can send you the appropriate illustration from the manual if you PM me with an e-mail adress.
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Just to confirm it's the external fuel tank. It's in most Douglas A-20 Boston / Havoc books.

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Thanks everyone! And thanks to Larry, who sent along a great picture from the A-20G manual. I'll post it after I get permission from Larry.

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Doesn't look right????
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Here's the scan that Larry sent to me from the A-20G manual. Thanks, Larry!

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...reminds me of the time we (Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association) flew into an airshow (London or St. Thomas, Ontario, I think). While doing public relations duty beside one of the aircraft, I listened to a young father explain to his 9 or 10 year old son that the long tube coming from the engine (exhaust extension, of course) was in fact the radar. It would have been better for us if it was! Who needs a cabin heater in July? :lol:

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