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Jack Cook
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Would you please explain the P70A designation.
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Very nice! So little is known about this very first US night fighter used operationally in WW2. Or is it first?

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Would you please explain the P70A designation.

Since you're giving me the option I'll say no :shock: :)

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Well...........OK
In October 1940, the USAAC felt a need for long-range fighters more than attack bombers, so some of the production run of A-20s were converted to P-70 and P-70A night-fighters. They were equipped with SCR-540 radar (a copy of British AI Mk IV), the glazed nose often painted black to reduce glare and hide the details of the radar set, and had four 20 mm (.79 in) forward-firing cannon in a ventral bomb bay tray.

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Can't tell if anything is firing from the bomb bay but there appears 4 muzzles coming out of the nose where I thought the radar dish should be.
I would assume the radar setup here only used the antennas on either side of the nose.
I remember that the P-70 was rushed into production due to delays in getting the Black Widow into production.
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I don't know jack sh*t :shock: But I think it may have been differences in models. This maybe a B model. There is a antenna in the nose also.

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I think? it's an A-2. They had the gun nose but I don't know where the radar array went.

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The portion of serial number that can be seen, as well as the SCR-540 system antenna, would seem to confirm it's a P-70A-2.

Feelin' all warm & fuzzy... :wink:

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51fixer wrote:
Can't tell if anything is firing from the bomb bay but there appears 4 muzzles coming out of the nose where I thought the radar dish should be.
I would assume the radar setup here only used the antennas on either side of the nose.



No dish needed. This link should explain it.

http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/radar-8.htm

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Quite a few P-70s ended up at Chino after the war - Wiliam T. Larkins took photos of several.

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According to the book "Pacific Aircraft Wrecks.." by Charles Darby there are several P-70 wrecks remaining in New Guinea: Aiome, Amaimom, Agaiambo, Dibor River and Finschhafen. BTW, isn't Agaiambo the site of B-17E 'Swamp Ghost" ??

How many P-70's were produced ? The actual quantity seems to be a bit illusive but it appears it was in the neighborhood of "about 100".
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Dang that cool! Never really seen one with 6 .50s in the nose.
Wouldn't the guns screw with the radar reception???
So I wonder if it carries 4 500 LBers in the bombbay??

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Is that a Fairchild 24 in the backround?

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