I was fooling around with the Mustang II cowl to see if the intake
manifold would fit. Decided to make the exhaust functional :)
The cannon is the ram air intake for the engine in keeping with
the fighter plane theme.

Paul Lamar

Vance W Jaqua wrote:

Paul - I think you ment Medusa (the lady with the snake hair) not

Methuselah

.
ps - I do not think anyone synchronized a cannon for WWII.
Vance

That's it! Medusa! Me and Greek mythology don't get along.

Not to my knowledge but does the average guy know that?
Have you ever seen a three inch cannon on a fighter?

Paul Lamar

Funny how the mind works.

Methuselah, according to the bible, is the person to have lived the longest
(969 years).  Perhaps Paul ment that is how long it would take to build it?

And I belive a recent issue of smithonian (on twin tails) mentioned the
104mm RR on a twin tail boom military aircraft.  I think it became a Cessna
Skymaster...

Not really a fighter.  And no i know of no sucessful 3 inch cannon on a
fighter.
Eric

-> I was under the impression that a cannon of some sort was fitted in either the nose or on the side of some B-25s. IIRC these were used in the pacific theater.  The skins on the side of the B-25s
had

to be reinforced to withstand the muzzle blast. I don't recall what the size of the cannons were, but it might have been as small as 40 MM.

Brian Trubee- 

 
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