@@TheArklyte actually the remote turrets in b-29 also includes a fire control that calculate the range and direction of the target so one man can control 2-3 turrets to aim at the same target and it was not possible with a mechanical gear system(because the shot would be parallel in a mechanical gear system not converging) it was only possible when the valve or vacuum tube was invented
The marauder truck guarantees 24 hours of gunfire protection. Lets put it to the test. Ill deliver a pizza to your house if you get this. If you get yhe pizza then im alive if not then just keep firing until you have a way to get the pizza.
Now, imagine you're a gunner on a B-29, on the way to Japan with dozens more B-29, in front of you, is the Remote Control Turret Systems technology, back in 1945. How about that?
@@politicallyinaccuratetoast4757 electrically traversed turrets were used even before 1939, but they're not really comparable, you still had people in those turrets and it would just be a hand controlled motor, with a battery that is charged by the engine, while with the remote control turrets on the B-29 you needed the computer systems, cameras, tracking, insane amounts of wiring, etc. all of that complexity is why the B-29 program was more expensive than even the Manhattan project that developed the atom bombs
From what i heard, this was also used for the also pretty popular game series of "Weaboo Killers" The oldest game in the series "Weaboo Killers: Pearl Harbor" and the last in the series beign "Weaboo Killers: To their homeland"
@Dakarai yes as the b-29 did not operate in Europe, well it did but it only flew in one squad I can't remember when where what why and how it's there but I wasn't used to the cold European climate
I'd like to listen to a podcast or video about the changing Japanese mindset in the postwar years. I understand that the destruction of the atomic bombs led to Godzilla and similar movies, and the mathematicians and engineers began to rethink their industrial systems quite rapidly and effectively.
@@jamesharding3459 what are you talking about japanese torpedos being bad? Long lances had far greater range and a better reliability than the US torpedoes at the time.
That is T-SQUARE 54 at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. She flew 36 combat missions over Japan, and lost an engine due to flack. I polished the entire side in this picture with a car buffer ! This was in the old Boeing plant 2, which is no longer there. The 4 gun turret shown was the front, top, turret. I got to play with one of the 2 gun turrets mounted on a table. I was like a kid in a candy store !!! This gentleman in the picture was a retired Boeing engineer who got this system working again. Very nice man. I think he said there was something like 3 miles of wiring in this plane. It had been cut in places when the plane was shipped to Seattle from an old Air Force base, making it too expensive to restore the air craft. Tom Dawson was the project head, and was a wonderful person. This building was used to build B -17's, B-29'S, B-47'S, and B-52's. During WW II it had a fake village on top of the roof with houses, and street's, and a REAL COW that was tied up !!! It was a great experience. Never forget it !
@ Tracy Sturgill - Thanks for all that info! And I remember those pictures of the fake town on top of the factory from those huge old Air & Space books my grandfather got me a subscription to in the early 90s, the ones that were like 400 pages each. 🇺🇲👍🏻😎👍🏻🇺🇲
Yet another reason they were also called the "Dreamboat". My grandfather flew on them in the latter part of the war, and we'll into the 60s, not on the 29s anymore of course, but he helped found SAC, the Strategic Air Command. I wish I got to hear more of his stories before his passing, but he was somewhat involved with the SR-71 Blackbird program as well prior to his retirement in the 70s. 🇺🇲👍🏻😎👍🏻🇺🇲
This is exactly what my grandfather used to shut down the enemy in WWII. Hearing him tell stories of some of the B29s he was on that had been presumed destroyed in action multiple times yet returning alive, occasionally in flames, gave me great respect for life. He didn't talk a lot about it. He kept a journal though and it's locked away. Being born in '21 he lived in poverty until he joined the service. His fortune was making it back to the States alive where he learned many trades and he was always happy to lend a hand to anyone who asked for help. Unfortunately he's a dying breed because so many people nowadays feel they can go through life being entitled to something even though they didn't do a damn thing to earn it. RIP Papa.
I miss my grandmother too. 8 years older than yours. Never had to go to war because they were farmers and had to feed the soldiers but the was a great guy from probably the Golden era of the country. The Commies and Rainbow warriors have done their job well.
@Jay Ryan - Yeah, absolutely NO ONE that fought and died for our Great Country back then was a DemoKKKrat, certainly not what they are today of course. I almost want to cry at what our country is currently becoming, almost eradicating the heroic and selfless acts of ALL of WW2 Heroes...............
Funny how ya'll complain about the They/Them army even though it's bitch slapped every foe it's faced as the strongest military ever built. Your worship of muscular heroism is a dream in the mind of dead men the missiles haven't struck yet.
Remember the gunner control officer would look to see which gunner had the best line of sight of the enemy and would slave all the turrets on the plane to that gunners control unit. Picture every gun on the plan tracking at you. It improved kills from the B17 percentage of about 3% to 19%.
@@korbetthein3072 aiming at completely different point (imagine mid beam attack, forward turrets point back, rear turrents point forward, if all slaved to same angle then one turret ~90degrees off?) not so much dispersion as just simply punching clouds
@@nellyprice - No, there was a central computer control that would automatically calculate range then it would adjust what you are referring to called "parallax". It would also calculate "lead" of the moving object, depending on range, up to 200 yards. Imagine, it would automatically aim 2 football fields in front of the attacking plane. Interesting write up if you search "Defending the Superbomber: The B-29’s Central Fire Control System"
I remember in a museum somewhere they had a full size flack gun you could get on and operate you could control the pitch and even turn the thing by useing the cranks to do so and keep in mind this thing was full size and i never knew you could even try one out in a freaking museum it was so cool!
Should of left Pearl Harbor alone, huh? Well, hindsight is always 20/20! No hard feelings anymore hopefully, glad that Japan is a very close ally today. 👍🏻😎👍🏻
My father Robert L Nulik gave manuals to the Commemorative Airforce on these systems back in early 1900's. He was an Instructor on these in an mobil training unit during ww2.
David Thomspson My understanding is yes. And multiple turrets can be controlled from any one position. When multiple turrets are controlled through one gunsight, they also converge their aim points instead of firing parallel streams of bullets.
The automatic fire control system didn't work fully during WWII. The Master Gunner had to manually assign turrets to gunsights. So, for example, if an attacking fighter passed from the left side to the right the Master Gunner could manually switch the turret from the left to right side sighting position. That was originally designed to work automatically as well as other functions. It was debugged by the time of the war in Korea and contrary to popular belief it was nearly suicidal for a MiG-15 pilot to attack a flight of 3x B-29 and later B-50.
So the military has guys sitting there moving little robot replicas around in the middle of a battle to control the turrets? All I learned from this. Jk, that’s rly cool tho!
Just watched an animated, educational WWII video on how to use these. They actually used the word computer for the big box that did all the calculations.
A film was released in the 1950s called “GUNNERY IN THE B-29”, which demonstrated the same machine that controlled the gun. Moving the black controller and moving it anywhere would make it move, and for the triggers for firing would be the 2 buttons between the sight on the controller (glass panel in the middle). I have a slight fear that if you pull those triggers, the guns will go off.
Andrew Poss This is the T-Square, currently sitting outside the Museum of Flight in Seattle. This video was taken back when the museum's B-29, B-17 and Super Constellation were all hidden in the soon to be demolished Boeing Plant 2. I got to spend several unsupervised hours crawling through the bombers that day. The Connie had just arrived and was not yet accessible from the ground.
@Assault Paperclip Not sure. This video is about 10 years old now, all this was from a visit to the old Boeing plant #2 when the Connie, the B-17 and the B-29 were all hidden away. I moved and am no longer plugged into what’s going on there. The Paul Allen thing is INFURIATING. He carefully built one of the great collections of the world and kept it all flying. And now that he’s gone they’re just pissing it all away. Just awful.
It uses synchro control transformers with amplidyne motor drivers. Input directly connects to output. No processing, just direct motion reaction from a simple feedback loop. You see these in some "power arm" stuff at forging and casting plants too.
@@rconger384 yes, really. My parents told me I could curse all I wanted when I grew up. The army helped out a bit too, so I pepper my sentences with the spice of curses as often as possible. Cheers! : )
More impressive for that era but less visible: the guns aren't directly aimed by the controls. The gunner is feeding range-to-target info via the controls, target relative velocity info by tracking it with the sights, and the fire control is calculating how much to lead the target by based on those. That's where the gun is aiming.
In 1 year the gunners went from being happed up in layers of clothing electric suits to stop them freezing. To sitting in pressurized cabins in shorts and tshirt smoking a cigar using this thing .incredible.
That controller also uses a head-up display with data supplied by radar and can control any gun turret on the plane. The future of combat in the 1940s.
When I was 19, I was 5' 4'' and 110 lbs. Had I been alive at that time, probably would have had that job, cept I was born in 1956 years after that war. I served during the cold war in Germany aboard an M60A1. Another confined space.
Don't forget folks that this system ran on electric valve technology, all protected in an armoured box. Blow just one valve and the system goes down. That fact alone was enough to raise the eyebrows of an Army Air Corp General in alarm when so informed during a tour of a B-29. Source; one of the two books I have on the B-29.
Imagine being a Japanese pilot used to b-17s and b-25s and you see a unidentified bomber just suddenly turn it's turrets at great speed and fire hundreds of kilograms of lead
And this was 40s technology.
Actually it was pre-WWI technology. You yourself can make a remote turret if you know how a bicycle works:D
@@TheArklyte whoa
@@TheArklyte actually the remote turrets in b-29 also includes a fire control that calculate the range and direction of the target so one man can control 2-3 turrets to aim at the same target and it was not possible with a mechanical gear system(because the shot would be parallel in a mechanical gear system not converging) it was only possible when the valve or vacuum tube was invented
@@mohdafnanazmi1674 go Kato way and have a room of people directing them separately;)
Yes it was My Father was CFC in a B-29 in the Korean war ,
“I said... Do.. We... HAVE..... a problem?” - Loc Dog
Loooool. I read this with the same tone as wayans
I love that scene
U..S..s....R..? 😂
,bznbfnxxkkzlzkx
Good one😂
"Don't worry, this is just a demostration"
*loads machine guns*
"Not for you tho"
Call an ambulance,...but not for me.
"Hey you can't do that"
"Wrong"
@@zZrEtRiBuTiOnZz prepare to parachute, but not from my plane!
Joke nya bapack bapack
@@basnug4350 uh?
Even this has better response time than my internet connection
To be fair, this is running on LAN.
Well its not Radio controlled.
🤦🏻♂️
No shit dumbbass it has no lag as its PHYSICALLY connected to the remote control.
"YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY"....
Nice ED209 reference
I knew someone was gonna say it...😂
Hahahahaha!!!
You have 8 seconds to comply
Nice
Is this available for home defense? Asking for a friend.
Yes for the low low price of your soul anything is legal.
@@slitherinsnake5101 all your loved ones' souls combined for premium version
The marauder truck guarantees 24 hours of gunfire protection. Lets put it to the test. Ill deliver a pizza to your house if you get this. If you get yhe pizza then im alive if not then just keep firing until you have a way to get the pizza.
I'm awaiting my permit for open carry.
Whats the friend gonna do to your home for which you need this machine at your house? XD
I want this mounted on my roof for home defense
Well you can i think but if not how about a civil war cannon
you mean for air defense
@@ddaveeddd imagine trying to hit a F-16 with a civil war cannon
Those darn pigeons are at it again
@esad i know just spouting shit thats silly :)
When they made this stuff they must have felt like they were creating a monstrous Terminator. This is truly some futuristic stuff.
Sadly gunners in warthunder are blind
maybe
Laughs in Tu-4*
strap gobular po2 on it
@@charliedontsurf8063 B29
My AI Gunners in war thunder are firing frontally while the enemy is at the rear lol.
*Sees the belt of .50s*
"Leonard....is that...LIVE...ammunition?"
No... thats 20 mm ammo
I had one of these, but I lost it in a tragic boating accident.
"boating accident"
Were you in the Bismarck or the Yamato?
This is a tragedy happening across America. I too lost my guns in a boating accident.
@@brandonbullins Man, that's horrible. So sad. What's a Mando without his guns?
@@PatrickKQ4HBD I miss my disrupter rifle.. no disintegrations
Man honestly, I went gun fishing and dropped the bloody thing in the lake, I miss it
Everyone Gangsta till he start to aim at cameraman:
"Call an ambulance, but no for me"
But the cameraman is immortal
Now, imagine you're a gunner on a B-29, on the way to Japan with dozens more B-29, in front of you, is the Remote Control Turret Systems technology, back in 1945. How about that?
They must have felt like Batman in the older comics from WW2
And non-piloted B-29, all automatized and the gunners are soldiers in their base controlling them using this controls and watching in a camera
I imagine I would be wishing the remote control was 1500miles East
There were tanks with electrically traversed turrets in like 1943 so remote control bomber turrets were definitely gonna come in 1945 or before 1945
@@politicallyinaccuratetoast4757 electrically traversed turrets were used even before 1939, but they're not really comparable, you still had people in those turrets and it would just be a hand controlled motor, with a battery that is charged by the engine, while with the remote control turrets on the B-29 you needed the computer systems, cameras, tracking, insane amounts of wiring, etc. all of that complexity is why the B-29 program was more expensive than even the Manhattan project that developed the atom bombs
And here we see the 40's gaming system that brought us the explosive hit "Kraut Hunt".
From what i heard, this was also used for the also pretty popular game series of "Weaboo Killers"
The oldest game in the series "Weaboo Killers: Pearl Harbor" and the last in the series beign "Weaboo Killers: To their homeland"
B29 wasn't operating over Germany.
@@thorstenbohn7304 That's right, its almost like I was making a joke or something.
Imagine this thing equipped with a 6-barreled GAU-19
The recoil from that would probably rip the turret to shreds but man it would be awesome.
GAU-19 is a three barreled 50 caliber minigun, it would be perfect for this plane
@@12LoLproductions make a 6-barreled version for aircraft. More freedom dispensed downrange!
@@flaminghailstorm9149 there’s a 6 barreled 37mm Vulcan on the T249 vigilante but it gets like a 200 round belt
Lol the ammo is gonna weigh more than the empty plane my dude. You may get a 5 second burst before running out.
All fun an games until someone in the crowd speaks German.
Amerikanische Ideologie-- perfekt töten, töten, töten...
@@kasimiralmasov9355 Deutsche Ideologie- teuer, TEUER, *T E U E R*
@@Fred_the_1996 Berlin Berlin, die Stadt in der Flughäfen nie in Betrieb gehn
@@kasimiralmasov9355 oh no, nien!
@Dakarai yes as the b-29 did not operate in Europe, well it did but it only flew in one squad I can't remember when where what why and how it's there but I wasn't used to the cold European climate
The shock and admiration of witnessing such technology has strongly influenced the motivation of postwar Japanese industrial development.
Mmmmm hadn’t ever considered that huge factor in their current position with tech. Thanks for the perspective, that makes sense.
I'd like to listen to a podcast or video about the changing Japanese mindset in the postwar years. I understand that the destruction of the atomic bombs led to Godzilla and similar movies, and the mathematicians and engineers began to rethink their industrial systems quite rapidly and effectively.
@Thomas Bell
Their tanks and small arms were pretty shitty though.
@@DarkMatterX1 As was their maritime and aircraft technology, with a few exceptions. Optical fire control and torpedoes, for instance.
@@jamesharding3459 what are you talking about japanese torpedos being bad? Long lances had far greater range and a better reliability than the US torpedoes at the time.
That is T-SQUARE 54 at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. She flew 36 combat missions over Japan, and lost an engine due to flack. I polished the entire side in this picture with a car buffer ! This was in the old Boeing plant 2, which is no longer there. The 4 gun turret shown was the front, top, turret. I got to play with one of the 2 gun turrets mounted on a table. I was like a kid in a candy store !!! This gentleman in the picture was a retired Boeing engineer who got this system working again. Very nice man. I think he said there was something like 3 miles of wiring in this plane. It had been cut in places when the plane was shipped to Seattle from an old Air Force base, making it too expensive to restore the air craft. Tom Dawson was the project head, and was a wonderful person. This building was used to build B -17's, B-29'S, B-47'S, and B-52's. During WW II it had a fake village on top of the roof with houses, and street's, and a REAL COW that was tied up !!! It was a great experience. Never forget it !
@ Tracy Sturgill - Thanks for all that info! And I remember those pictures of the fake town on top of the factory from those huge old Air & Space books my grandfather got me a subscription to in the early 90s, the ones that were like 400 pages each. 🇺🇲👍🏻😎👍🏻🇺🇲
Never have i seen the system in action before!
Fantastic showpiece!
The ones who did probably didn't survive for long
Must have been quite the experience for those gunners to be using a cutting edge technology.
Hey! They paid us to have all the fun! I really missed it after I got out!
Yet another reason they were also called the "Dreamboat". My grandfather flew on them in the latter part of the war, and we'll into the 60s, not on the 29s anymore of course, but he helped found SAC, the Strategic Air Command. I wish I got to hear more of his stories before his passing, but he was somewhat involved with the SR-71 Blackbird program as well prior to his retirement in the 70s. 🇺🇲👍🏻😎👍🏻🇺🇲
This is exactly what my grandfather used to shut down the enemy in WWII. Hearing him tell stories of some of the B29s he was on that had been presumed destroyed in action multiple times yet returning alive, occasionally in flames, gave me great respect for life. He didn't talk a lot about it. He kept a journal though and it's locked away. Being born in '21 he lived in poverty until he joined the service. His fortune was making it back to the States alive where he learned many trades and he was always happy to lend a hand to anyone who asked for help. Unfortunately he's a dying breed because so many people nowadays feel they can go through life being entitled to something even though they didn't do a damn thing to earn it. RIP Papa.
I miss my grandmother too. 8 years older than yours. Never had to go to war because they were farmers and had to feed the soldiers but the was a great guy from probably the Golden era of the country. The Commies and Rainbow warriors have done their job well.
@Jay Ryan - Yeah, absolutely NO ONE that fought and died for our Great Country back then was a DemoKKKrat, certainly not what they are today of course. I almost want to cry at what our country is currently becoming, almost eradicating the heroic and selfless acts of ALL of WW2 Heroes...............
@@Lets_Go_Brandon2024Cuz they were too busy fighting the nazi in europe while the Retard-"Republicans" were too busy sucking up to the Nazi's
Funny how ya'll complain about the They/Them army even though it's bitch slapped every foe it's faced as the strongest military ever built. Your worship of muscular heroism is a dream in the mind of dead men the missiles haven't struck yet.
So that's how the turrets worked. I knew they were remote controlled, but I didn't know what the controls looked like. The more you know.
Everyone gangsta until he points it at you and starts shooting
Oh really...Thank you for this insightful comment with that wonderful " eveybody ... till ..." please my friend, use your very own brain. Please.
@@22.NUU.DRU.22 I mean, sure the comment wasn't a very funny version of "Everybody gangsta until-" but no need to be an ass.
@@22.NUU.DRU.22 Lmao what are you, 70 years old?
How you say American Engineering, makes me proud to see all that Freedom pointing in synchrony.
"Freedom Pointing"!!! 🇺🇲👍🏻😎👍🏻🇺🇲
Awsome remote control from the 40s. Very responsive honestly. Especially when you remember that all of it was probably very heavy.
Accidentally presses RedButton.
“Fire in the hole”
Remember the gunner control officer would look to see which gunner had the best line of sight of the enemy and would slave all the turrets on the plane to that gunners control unit. Picture every gun on the plan tracking at you. It improved kills from the B17 percentage of about 3% to 19%.
I was going to comment about that aspect of the system, but you have done it perfectly. Well done sir 🙂
Wouldn't the turrets have different angles of deflection for a single target?
@@nellyprice Yes, but that extra dispersion adds to the hit probability.
@@korbetthein3072 aiming at completely different point (imagine mid beam attack, forward turrets point back, rear turrents point forward, if all slaved to same angle then one turret ~90degrees off?) not so much dispersion as just simply punching clouds
@@nellyprice - No, there was a central computer control that would automatically calculate range then it would adjust what you are referring to called "parallax". It would also calculate "lead" of the moving object, depending on range, up to 200 yards. Imagine, it would automatically aim 2 football fields in front of the attacking plane. Interesting write up if you search "Defending the Superbomber: The B-29’s Central Fire Control System"
Remote controll in 2021
“Thats unbelivable”
Это нужно поставить для защиты дома, конечно же предворительно прикрыв броне колпачком.!
А кто сам пулемёт будет охранять?.
@@user-oo9up7gj7m Поставим на само-охрану...!
@@Nur-cu8dl распознование лица, заходишь в дом в очках и ты труп - очки зло
"Alright! Now don't get cocky, kid."
"I've gotta bad feelin about this...."
Best part is live rounds were loaded ready to rip. Good thing this man in a professional.
It really becomes impressive when u understand its all hydraulic and mechanical in nature
Do you know what thebtwch is called
I love how the technician says "Robocop"!
I remember in a museum somewhere they had a full size flack gun you could get on and operate you could control the pitch and even turn the thing by useing the cranks to do so and keep in mind this thing was full size and i never knew you could even try one out in a freaking museum it was so cool!
Got to play on one in Pearl Harbor back in 2005 I think, but it was all manual operated, by crank wheels
The latency tho. That is impressive.
Analogue... still beats digital today.
Shaddup
هؤلاء المخترعين هم من لهم الدور الرئيسي للنصر..مع التحية لكم من بغداد العراق
Up until recently I had no idea that it was this level of sofisticated technology.. mind blowing
I've known since about age 5, but grandfather flew on these and I've always been a huge aviation nerd haha
_"Skynet went live on June 6th 1944..."_
Hahahaha! 😂🤣
Absolutely awesome!
Right? That's what I'm talking about.
Its very wiggly, that's why my gunners can't hit shit.
High_flew "my gunners"? You own gunners? No, no you don't. You must be another one of those video game heroes.
@@jayryan7473 bruh, he is talking about warthunder. Get off your high horse.
*Random 8 year old walks in the camera*
"Cool toy!"
*Proceeds to spin it around and shoot everything*
The old guy just awakened from 80 years long coma and is totally amazed with something that is already obsolete nowadays.
How the hell are my gunners missing in warthunder?! That turret moves and stops on a dime!
This explains that famous phrase about how technology evolves at the speed of war
The original Crew Remotely Operated Weapon Station.
“Oh, I’m completely mentally stable”
“ *Oh look, a civilian airliner* “
I need that in my backyard for dove hunting season.
My grand parents sure knew how to build stuff that lasted
我々はこんな国を相手に戦っていたというのか…
先人の方々が必死で国を守ってくれたおかげで今の日本があるんですね
こんなん見たら怖気付いてしまいますよ...
Should of left Pearl Harbor alone, huh? Well, hindsight is always 20/20! No hard feelings anymore hopefully, glad that Japan is a very close ally today. 👍🏻😎👍🏻
It kinda reminds me of the turret scene from the first Star Wars..."now dont get cocky kid!"
Fun fact: George Lucas designed the Millennium Falcon cockpit off the cockpit of this aircraft. 👍🏻😎👍🏻
Honestly the sound of motors is the best part
When America still answered the door to freedom with force instead of politics.
He looks like Tony Stark's father.
Tony Stank*
Considering how old it is, thats very impressive technology, didn't realise they worked that well
And that thing is not connected to the fire control computer, which was another achievement.
The roof Korean's are upgrading their aresnal.
Haha good one.
As a korean i can say yes
Roof koreans are best koreans
My father Robert L Nulik gave manuals to the Commemorative Airforce on these systems back in early 1900's. He was an Instructor on these in an mobil training unit during ww2.
Does it automatically calculate lead???
David Thomspson My understanding is yes. And multiple turrets can be controlled from any one position. When multiple turrets are controlled through one gunsight, they also converge their aim points instead of firing parallel streams of bullets.
Yes
@@andykeck6018 man....if only B-17s were equipped with that rig.
A lot less of them would have been lost.
The automatic fire control system didn't work fully during WWII. The Master Gunner had to manually assign turrets to gunsights. So, for example, if an attacking fighter passed from the left side to the right the Master Gunner could manually switch the turret from the left to right side sighting position. That was originally designed to work automatically as well as other functions. It was debugged by the time of the war in Korea and contrary to popular belief it was nearly suicidal for a MiG-15 pilot to attack a flight of 3x B-29 and later B-50.
It works like this:
"HEY AIRMAN!! YOU GOTTA LEAD EM MORE!!"
Done. 😉
That’s way more impressive than any modern tech company products
So the military has guys sitting there moving little robot replicas around in the middle of a battle to control the turrets? All I learned from this.
Jk, that’s rly cool tho!
Just watched an animated, educational WWII video on how to use these. They actually used the word computer for the big box that did all the calculations.
It very high tech back in 1945!
A film was released in the 1950s called “GUNNERY IN THE B-29”, which demonstrated the same machine that controlled the gun. Moving the black controller and moving it anywhere would make it move, and for the triggers for firing would be the 2 buttons between the sight on the controller (glass panel in the middle). I have a slight fear that if you pull those triggers, the guns will go off.
And when i wan to print on air... My printer was dafuk i'm not ready ....
To think that this was used in the 40s is amazing.
Which B-29 was this?
Andrew Poss This is the T-Square, currently sitting outside the Museum of Flight in Seattle. This video was taken back when the museum's B-29, B-17 and Super Constellation were all hidden in the soon to be demolished Boeing Plant 2. I got to spend several unsupervised hours crawling through the bombers that day. The Connie had just arrived and was not yet accessible from the ground.
My dad helped build their Connie at Lockheed in the early Fifties.
@Assault Paperclip Not sure. This video is about 10 years old now, all this was from a visit to the old Boeing plant #2 when the Connie, the B-17 and the B-29 were all hidden away. I moved and am no longer plugged into what’s going on there.
The Paul Allen thing is INFURIATING. He carefully built one of the great collections of the world and kept it all flying. And now that he’s gone they’re just pissing it all away. Just awful.
How many guys like him are still around that know that platform enough to make it work like it just came from the factory.
Sadly, probably less than 100, maybe even a dozen........
This is awesome, could you imagine this in the early ,40s? When chewy was still a Twinkle in his daddys eye
Why is it hard to believe we had this technology back then...?
The reaction of it seems insane for its time
And Radar sighted. Those four .50s were devastating.
*Hydraulics sound of Wired Controlled B-29 turret sounds and points at you* "Get out of my Yard in 10 Seconds!"
Dear Santa, this year for Christmas I want...
This is really fucking cool and we're getting closer to what is essentially just star wars
Gaming systems have really taken a step backwards in the last 70 years
Ultra sophisticated electronic turret gun at that time. B-29, was extremely electronic and unique electronic engineering.
I cant believe how fast that thing rotated!
This is the best part of my tactical house remodel
I'd have these installed like those spinning heat extractor roof turbines! 🇺🇲👍🏻😎🇺🇲
The response time on this blows my mind, especially considering it was analog technology. Engineers in the past were fucking geniuses
It uses synchro control transformers with amplidyne motor drivers. Input directly connects to output. No processing, just direct motion reaction from a simple feedback loop. You see these in some "power arm" stuff at forging and casting plants too.
Fbomb? Really?
@@rconger384 yes, really. My parents told me I could curse all I wanted when I grew up. The army helped out a bit too, so I pepper my sentences with the spice of curses as often as possible. Cheers! : )
*Stan Lee:* "Get off my lawn!"
More impressive for that era but less visible: the guns aren't directly aimed by the controls. The gunner is feeding range-to-target info via the controls, target relative velocity info by tracking it with the sights, and the fire control is calculating how much to lead the target by based on those. That's where the gun is aiming.
Everybody gangsta until grandpa has a flashback and pulls the trigger.
Dziękujemy za wasze akcje w obronie wolności ❤
And to watch this I now imagine Charles Bronson at his gun position using this.
Thank you for your service and all the others in the B-29/50.
Everybody gangsta until you said grandpa do you have an Rc toy?
That is one of the cooler things I've seen in a while
Looks super amazing for 40s technology
I had no idea those guns can traverse so fast
That is great, back in the 40s as well👍👍👍👍
In 1 year the gunners went from being happed up in layers of clothing electric suits to stop them freezing. To sitting in pressurized cabins in shorts and tshirt smoking a cigar using this thing .incredible.
Just watched a video earlier today on the B-29 tail guns, and they actually had a fild out ashtray back there! 🇺🇲👍🏻😎👍🏻🇺🇲
@@Lets_Go_Brandon2024 God bless them all.They were definitely entitled to a nice relaxing smoke
@@ewanmacfarlane9195- AGREED!
That controller also uses a head-up display with data supplied by radar and can control any gun turret on the plane. The future of combat in the 1940s.
" I said, do we, have a, problem?" First thing came to my head
Or from "armageddon" if im Not wrong remember" now i can destroy this asteroid by myself"
Lesson of the video: Don’t fuck with the veterans, or this thing is gonna be pointed right at you
When I was 19, I was 5' 4'' and 110 lbs. Had I been alive at that time, probably would have had that job, cept I was born in 1956 years after that war. I served during the cold war in Germany aboard an M60A1. Another confined space.
That controller was smoother than my life
Don't forget folks that this system ran on electric valve technology, all protected in an armoured box. Blow just one valve and the system goes down. That fact alone was enough to raise the eyebrows of an Army Air Corp General in alarm when so informed during a tour of a B-29.
Source; one of the two books I have on the B-29.
Imagine being a Japanese pilot used to b-17s and b-25s and you see a unidentified bomber just suddenly turn it's turrets at great speed and fire hundreds of kilograms of lead
Yak 3: approaches B-29 tail
B-29: CALL AN AMBULANCE! but not for me 🔫🔫🔫🔫
Well, those guys would've definitely gone deaf with those four .50s thumping right in front of you! But man, just the sheer rush of it!💪👌😁
No, not with the 4 Wright R-3350, 18 cylinder radials droning from the wings, and of course your headsets on..........
Нашёл чем удивить при современных то технологиях!
“And you best hope……..not pointing at you”