B.17 Mid Upper, just got it :)

Seen this at a few Aerojumbles before Col 😉 think its description started off as a B – 17 turret then morphed into a B . 17 Lincoln one after punters kept on being confused!

Good find though chap, glazing intact n all,

TT

Custodian of BP Type D tail turret!

P.P.S
If you need the contact i know a source for .50 barrel jackets – about £30 each when i last saw em

TT

Umm would make a nice cloche in the garden……

When G-CTKL was rebuilt in the mid 80s, I was given some of the redundant parts (tailplane, rudder etc…) and a lot of RAF (ex Sandhurst) canopies, which my Dad used in his garden to use as windbreaks for growing plants. Looked rather strange…like a flight of crashed Harvards in his vegetable patch.

Martin

sorry should of explained 😉

the Lincoln was armed with twin 12.7mm Browning machine-guns in a Boulton-Paul Type F nose turret; two 20mm Hispano Mk 4 or Mk 5 cannon in a Bristol B-17 Mk II dorsal turret; twin 12.7mm machine-guns in a Boulton Paul Type D rear turret and up to 6,350kg of bombs.

Looks like it’s a Lincoln to me

Shot of Lincoln showing upper turret

http://www.diggerhistory.info/images/air-recent/lincoln.jpg

B17 upper turret

http://mil.jschina.com.cn/afwing/intro/b17/turret.jpg

However, if you type in ‘b17 upper turret’ on google image search theres a picture of a turret exactly like yours being hosed down, half way down here http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/nyefoto.htm so who knows!

ah. I think that is from a Lincoln bomber not a B17 but will wait and see what the general consensus may be…