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Old 08-11-2003, 12:15 PM
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Default B-17 Ball Turret

Any one have the straight dope on B-17 ball turret? I was told that the ball turret
could not be raised up into the plane.At one air show I was told that the ball turret
could be raised into the plane. I read about a plane could not drop the wheels and
the ball turret man was killed.
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Old 08-17-2003, 08:13 PM
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Well, you'd think that if they couldn't get the wheels down the gunner would get out of the ball turret before they attempted a landing!

Wasn't the ball turret invented by Mr. Tucker? --as in the movie "Tucker."
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Old 08-22-2003, 01:56 PM
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The ball turret on the B-17 could NOT be raised into the fuselage. So if some poor gunner was trapped there and the landing gear would not come down, they would have to do a belly landing the ball turret would be crushed! But the ball turret in a B-24 liberator could be raised into the fuselage. So things looked a bit better for a Liberator ball turret gunner ...providing the raising mechanism didn't get shot up too. Hope this clears things up. ...Mark
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Old 08-04-2005, 10:31 PM
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Here is a couple of photo's I took of a B17 Ball Turret, from this, you can see that it cannot go fully into the fuselage.



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