From November 1944 USAAF Eighth Air Force B-17s of the Third Air Division carried an aerial located on the nose between the captains windshield and the astrodome . It was offset slightly. http://bates-r-us.org/abitolace/ Was it related to the use of Micro H radar bombing ? Not to be confused with H2X Mickey.
By: DazDaMan - 7th October 2010 at 15:29
Man, I remember building the Airfix model of “A Bit O’ Lace” many moons ago….!
By: T-21 - 7th October 2010 at 14:46
Thanks ,the Gee whip was standard fit,this aerial is the much chunkier one,come on all you B-17 fans someone must have the definitive answer ?
By: anneorac - 7th October 2010 at 09:07
There would appear to be two different aerials in the same position in those photographs. The Bates photograph appears to show a whip aerial for Gee equipment while I presume the by the time Mr. C. E. Brown got round to pointing his camera at ‘Miss Lace’ this had been replaced with some form of LORAN. All guess work I’ll afraid and it wouldn’t be the first time I’ve been wrong.
Anne
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October 7, 2010 at 7:11 am