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Jack Cook
 Post subject: P-38 Droop Snoot
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Someone was asking for pjhotos of these earlier
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I'm thinking it was thought up by a guy who would never have to bail out of it...
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Mark Allen M
 Post subject: Re: P-38 Droop Snoot
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Here's some detail photos from the Sarah Clark Collection, US National Archives. Source http://clubhyper.com/reference/showandt ... otdb_1.htm

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I just absolutely love the aircraft detail shots, especially those super clear large format images. Thanks.
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Wait - how'd this work, there wasn't really a guy in the nose of a '38 was there? :shock: Dang it, that's all the time I have tonight, wonder if somebody could point me to the story or give a quick summary?

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Perhaps a version with captions will be useful:

http://clubhyper.com/reference/showandt ... otdb_1.htm

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Thx as I forgot to add the link on my original post. No wonder nothing made sense. Link now added.

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Wait - how'd this work, there wasn't really a guy in the nose of a '38 was there? :shock: Dang it, that's all the time I have tonight, wonder if somebody could point me to the story or give a quick summary?



Oh yes. I've even seen films of Ike touring England in the nose of a Droop Snoot.


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Wow, that's amazing. I've done time around '38's before, never woulda thought there's enough room up front, wow again! :shock:

Bet it'd be a FUN RIDE though -- zooom!! 8)

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You want a "compact and bijou" crewed P-38 nose, try fitting a complete H2X scanner, indicator console and operator in there... ;)
IIRC they had to reuse the original pre-production sets as they were in more seperate bits so could be fitted in a smaller space.

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The majority of these images have been restored.

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