11bee Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 Does anyone know what size drop tank was used for this? Can’t find any good info on line and the pics out there aren’t usable for figuring out if the tanks used were the 75-gallon ones or the slightly larger 110’s. Any info is much appreciated. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tourist Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 More than one type of tank was used with napalm. That being said most pictures seem to show the 110 gal. tanks on F-51's in Korea (for napalm). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
11bee Posted January 24, 2020 Author Share Posted January 24, 2020 2 hours ago, tourist said: More than one type of tank was used with napalm. That being said most pictures seem to show the 110 gal. tanks on F-51's in Korea (for napalm). Fantastic info, thanks very much. Any chance you any pics of the igniter assembly mounted on the rear of these tanks? Only pic I’ve seen doesn’t show it in very much detail. Regards, John Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tourist Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 I don't have detail pictures of the napalm installation on F-51's handy, maybe somewhere in my files, I'm not sure. Here are some pix of the installation using 165 gal. tanks on P-47s (from the old RetroMechanix site): Here's an improvised 55 gal. napalm bomb: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
11bee Posted January 25, 2020 Author Share Posted January 25, 2020 18 hours ago, tourist said: I don't have detail pictures of the napalm installation on F-51's handy, maybe somewhere in my files, I'm not sure. Here are some pix of the installation using 165 gal. tanks on P-47s (from the old RetroMechanix site): Here's an improvised 55 gal. napalm bomb: Great pics Christian. Although not for the F-51D tanks, they go a long ways towards showing what the igniters looked like. On the F-51 tanks, it looks like instead of a afixing the aft igniter to the end of the tank, they tack welded a metal cylinder on the rear side to secure it in place. Finn (Jari) was helpful enough to provide this shot over on LSP: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
11bee Posted January 25, 2020 Author Share Posted January 25, 2020 BTW, whilst on the subjects of these tanks, if anyone is interested, here are a couple of pics that show has nasty these things got: Not exactly a state of the art production line... Great weathering opportunities abound. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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