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Jack Cook
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P-61A Ladd Field, AK 1945 note P-40N and P-51A in background
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P-61A 422nd NFS 1944
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P-61A 6th NFS turret maintenence 1944
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P-61A 414th NFS MTO 1945
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excellent!!

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

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Excellent photos Jack. Thanks :D

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Wow Jack,

Thanks for posting those. Great pictures!

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Wow, those are kick *ss Jack! Thanks!
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Great pics Jack, keep 'em coming :)
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Very cool pics.
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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!

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

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!

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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!!
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Me neither!

I was looking up Moonlight Serenade and there was a pic of it in that thread.
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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?
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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
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[quote="Jack Cook"]Image
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!

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