Top Turret by blinkings

Photography • Military • posted on Feb 28, 2011

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On display at The Point Cook Airbase.

Comments (10)

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cfulton

7:21AM | Mon, 28 February 2011

I would not have liked to be in one of these! Clive

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kgb224

8:16AM | Mon, 28 February 2011

Wonderful find and capture my friend.

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Faemike55

8:44AM | Mon, 28 February 2011

Very cool capture and I agree with Clive - not for me, no thank you

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taximan

8:58AM | Mon, 28 February 2011

Sorry to say this but that is not a ball turret it a dorsal or top turret of a plane that's the one on the top probably from a Wellington or Bristol Blenheim a ball turret is on the belly or bottom of a plane and they come from B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 liberators.

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Crabbycabby

1:42PM | Mon, 28 February 2011

Whatever it is. Great image.

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blinkings

2:10PM | Mon, 28 February 2011

Thanks Taximan for the correction.

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Buffalo1

9:25PM | Tue, 01 March 2011

I'm with taximan on this cool photo. It also looks like it could have been used on a Martin Maryland.

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Osper

9:01PM | Wed, 02 March 2011

Nice one!!!!!

pdq1234

1:30PM | Fri, 11 March 2011

Interesting photo. I looked around and this looks to be the nose turret of a B-24 Liberator. Here's a link to some photos and such. http://www.acepilots.com/planes/b24.html Being a nose turret probably explains the dents and such, most likely hit a tree on landing or takeoff, this was fairly common back then, with farm fields being used as air fields and generally the plane made it threw, they made things to last back then and taking out a few tree limbs didn't damage the plane much.

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debbielove

10:00AM | Sat, 16 July 2011

Taximan is correct in that its a dorsal turret.. But not from a Wellington or Blenheim (I have seen a Blenheim one and the wellington was not shaped like this and the guns are too big!) But as its in an Australian museum it is very likely a Hudson or even more so, a Beaufort.. These were used by a large number of Aussie squadrons AND there is one still in the RAF Museum, Hendon.. Turrets match.. Good shot mate.. Rob