For you Mustang fans

[Elwyn Aud]

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150947251111610&set=vb.396452487077668&type=2&theater

[John Stiles]

Thats pretty cool, thanks Elwyn.

[Glenn (Gravitywell) Reach]

I thought that was illegal.  Not to own the guns (certain states allow almost anything!), but to have an armed aircraft/warplane.

[Elwyn Aud]

I thought that was illegal.  Not to own the guns (certain states allow almost anything!), but to have an armed aircraft/warplane.

I don't think it's allowed to fly with operational weapons. I read where they had to jump through a lot of hoops just to do a ground demo.

[Glenn (Gravitywell) Reach]

Thanks Ellwyn.  I thought it was kinda illegal! LOL

[Douglas Ames]

I don't think it's allowed to fly with operational weapons. I read where they had to jump through a lot of hoops just to do a ground demo.

I would think you would need 6 ea. Class III weapon permits and authorization from one of the Govt. agencys for ground use only ??
.50 BMG are legal with the correct paperwork.

We have a guy with a WWII Jeep in Owasso, OK with a .50 cal mount in the back - "Rat Patrol". The receiver is a dummy though.

[Randy Ryan]

I was amazed to see the recoil of the airframe!!! That give a real visual as to the potency of 1 50 let alone 6 or 8.

[Dave Hull]

By the time they got to the D-model, they had a test stand where the plane was still on its gear (3-point) and the wing LE was nudged up to a set of curved chutes on a movable rig. The chutes had a slow 90 degree bend with some traps/suppressors/heat exchangers(?) on the end. The slugs went down the chutes into a collector box. I'm not sure if/how this allowed boresighting or if it was a prelimary weapon check only. As fast as they were building the things, I'd bet they combined the functional check with boresight. No time to do essentially the same setup twice. And the picture--shows testing going on at night in Inglewood, which is a couple blocks down the street from me. Noisy times.....

[Chuck Feldman]

Very cool. When I was a kid there was lots of aerial gunnery of the NJ shore and I heard it almost all times of the day. They fired at socks that another plane towed. I never got to see what the clip you have showed. However I do go to Warren Grove NJ Where there was a gunnery range for shooting at fixed targets. i was surprised that I could drive right up to the fence and walk into the range. At the base of the tower that controlled the range i climbed on to the top and entered the room. An officer asked what I was doing there and I told him I wanted to watch. He took me outside and showed me a place to stand and not to move until he came back. He went back inside. I watched an F-105 sweep down and fire a burst from the Gatling gun. It startled me badly. I did not move and as the firing continued I became accustom to the firing. I remember now distinctly I could hear the gun spinning its barrels as the gun fired. The sound of the actual firing wasn't that loud. I would say the targets where about three hundred yards from the tower and that they fired there guns about 300 yards before they passed the tower (600yds) Most of the burst hit directly into the large target as best I could tell. After about 45 mins the officer came out and told me to go ahead and climb back down the tower. I thanked him and left. All in all it was pretty scary to be that close to the firing.

[Chris McMillin]

In New Zealand they fly the airplane. Fire blanks during flight in a P-40, all six.
Chris...

[john e. holliday]

It is something to watch the old films of some of the planes being set up for aiming the guns.   Myself I would have at least a couple of 12 gauge shotguns,  a 30-6 rifle and several pistols.   Of course everyone would be trained in the use of them.   

But, like one of my co-workers, who used to teach the use of fire arms.  When someone asked to be trained,  first thing he would do is pull out a pistol and hand it to them.   Then tell them to shoot him.   Like he stated to me, if you are not ready to pull the trigger immediatelly you don't need the weapon.   Now if they would only go after the ones that don't need the weapons. 

[proparc]

John Moses Browning was a genius.