Subject: Which cockpit has the best visibility?
From: Ed Rasimus
Date: 11/19/03 1:36 PM Pacific Standard Time
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On 19 Nov 2003 18:41:40 GMT, (ArtKramr) wrote:

Subject: Which cockpit has the best visibility?

If you have to watch a war, it is hard to beat the nose of a B-26
Marauder..That;s on of the great things about being a Bombardier. Of course
pilots had a lot better armor than we did. But you can't have everything.
(grin)

Arthur Kramer

Gotta say that as a bombardier, navigator, gunner, defensive systems
operator, radio operator, and part-time driver of an F-105 we had a
good view as well, but general visibility sucked. I recall returning
to the US to be checked out as a T-38 IP and noting that R/C/P landing
seemed to have much better vis than normal 'Chief approaches.

Oh, and no armor anywhere.


NO ARMOR ANYWHERE?? In the B-26 the cockpit had 1/2" of a steel behind the
pilots and lots on the sides as well. Fuel tanks were armored as were tail and
top turret gunner positiones. Only the nose (Plexiglas) and waist windows had
no armor. How come yours was stripped?


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
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