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The Automatic Gun-Laying Turret (AGLT), also known as the Frazer-Nash FN121, was a radar-directed, rear gun turret fitted to some British bombers from 1944. AGLT incorporated both a low-power tail warning radar and fire-control system , which could detect approaching enemy fighters , aim and automatically trigger machine guns – in total ...
The Rose turret (sometimes known as the Rose-Rice turret) was a gun turret fitted to the rear position of some British Avro Lancaster heavy bombers in 1944–45. It was armed with two American 0.5 inch (12.7 mm) light-barrel Browning AN/M2 heavy machine guns — the standard American defensive weapon used in turreted and flexible mounts in the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and Consolidated B-24 ...
The Avro Lancaster, commonly known as the Lancaster Bomber, is a British Second World War heavy bomber.It was designed and manufactured by Avro as a contemporary of the Handley Page Halifax, both bombers having been developed to the same specification, as well as the Short Stirling, all three aircraft being four-engined heavy bombers adopted by the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the same era.
The Avro Lancaster nose turret was operated by the bomb aimer, whose position was directly below the turret. Handley-Page Halifax (most versions fitted with manual nose guns, except Mk.II which sometimes had a powered turret) Short Stirling – turret, 2 x .303 Browning; Short Sunderland – turret, 1 x .303 caliber VGO or Browning
During this time the aircraft appeared in two films: Operation Crossbow and The Guns of Navarone. [2] PA474 was stored first at Wroughton and then at Henlow then, after a request in 1965 from 44 Squadron, the Lancaster moved to RAF Waddington for restoration back to wartime standard including refitting the front and rear turrets. [2] [3]
The FN-20 4-gun tail turret on an Avro Lancaster FN-5 2-gun nose turret on a Lancaster. Nash & Thompson was a British engineering firm that developed and produced hydraulically operated gun turrets for aircraft.
FM213 is an Avro Lancaster, one of only two airworthy examples in the world. It was built in Malton, Ontario at Victory Aircraft as construction number 3414 and rolled out in July 1945. Built as a Mark X bomber, it was no longer needed in Europe and transferred directly to storage at CFB Trenton .
The passengers sat in canvas folding seats down the length of the fuselage beneath where Sergeant William Kennedy [19] sat in his sling seat in the "Mid-Upper" gun turret, but no heating or parachutes were available for them and there was no oxygen supply for passengers so the aircraft flew at 2,000 ft (610 m). [20]