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Next installment is on the life raft locations. Here we see what appears to be an A20B but pay attention to the verbiage about difference in models. "Airplane models and equipment stowage vary... Adapt this procedure to fit the specific model you are flying" I don't know the publication date but the inset on the top right does show a life raft and supplies in the walkway behind the pilot's cockpit: A close up of text instructions for each crew member: However, the actual A-20B manual has this figure stating that the gunner is to remove and infla -
For the longest, I thought that this was the rear gun position on all until the turret. The guns, whether single or dual, regardless of caliber, would be on a semi-circular skate rail similar to the pulpit in the halftracks of the time. Singular .30 Cal Browning: Dual .30 Cal Brownings: Single .50 Cal Browning with 30 round box: A-20B TM image showing .50 Cal on a semi-circular skate rail: Then, I saw this in the Crowood book and it has a transverse straight rail which was installed from the A-20
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While not included in any scale Havoc or Boston kits, the A-20B had an interesting formation light pattern (seen on the A-20C and the A-20A which describes it in the manual): A-20A manual description of lights and locations - A-20B with rear firing nacelle guns as well. This one seems to have a light (formation or passing) on the top of the bombardier's section of the nose: A-20B serial 41-3040L On the A-20A (this one might have another formation of passing light on the nose above the bombardier): A-20C: When HK
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In order to ensure I am not missing the forest for the trees, let me present what I have come up with so far and the reasoning behind it. With the announcement of HK Models 1/48th scale A-20B/C kit, I decided to focus on my AMT kit which I spend quite some time detailing. Looking at the nacelles, it didn't seem to correspond with the text in various books about the fourteen exhaust ejector pipes being divided by five under fixed cowl flaps on the outboard side, four under the fixed cowl flaps on the inboard side with the remaining six under formed movable cowl flaps.