Aircraft Turrets And Defense Tactics | Interesting Historical Facts You Might Not Know | Ep. 2
Aircraft turrets and defense tactics used during the war. An interesting account of the ideas, and engineering behind them | Episode 2
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During World War I, air gunners initially operated guns that were mounted on pedestals or swivel mounts known as pintles. The latter evolved into the Scarff ring, a rotating ring mount that allowed the gun to be turned to any direction with the gunner remaining directly behind it, the weapon held in an intermediate elevation by bungee cord, a simple and effective mounting for single weapons such as the Lewis Gun though less handy when twin mounted as with the British Bristol F.2 Fighter and German “CL“-class two-seaters such as the Halberstadt and Hannover-designed series of compact two-seat combat aircraft. In a failed 1916 experiment, a
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