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Aviation History
1943
1943 - 0184.PDF
FLIGHT JANUARY 2IST, T943 Ventura Day Bomber Photographs of One of Bomber Command's Latest Operational Types The side view of the Lockheed Ventura in the top airphotograph shows the deep fuselage and also the upper and lower turrets for tail protection. The Ventura is poweredby two 2,000 h.p. Pratt and Whitney Double Wasps with Hamilton Standard hydromatic airscrews. In the front viewabove the starboard airscrew is fully feathered and is just on the point of stopping. (Below) The bomb train calls and leaveseach Ventura a quota of bombs. The offensive armament in the- front is two .303m. machine guns fitted in the Per-speK nose and two fixed .5111 machine guns in the fuselage top. \ Above) The Ventura hasshapely lines for a machine -with such a big fuselage. Inthis view can be seen the flap guides and also the permanentwing-tip slots which help to give good control at the stalling speed. (Left) A line of Venturas,with their engines running, about to taxi out to the take-off point. Similar in many respects to the LockheedHudson, which has done such excellent work with CoastalCommand, the family resem- blance in outline Is very strong.
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