Scale Modeling and Military History
Photographs taken at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force (NMUSAF) at Dayton, Ohio.
Part II here: https://inchhighguy.wordpress.com/2023/01/29/lockheed-ac-130-spectre-gunship-walk-around-part-ii/
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Scale Modeling and Military History
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Scale Modeling and Military History
Scale Modeling and Military History
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Scale Modeling and Military History
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Hi! I recently went to the air force museum and saw this plane, and I was wondering if you knew what the metal plate with holes in the first two pictures was for. I haven’t been able to find anything else on it.
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The sensor on the port side of the nose is the AN/ASD-5 Black Crow, it detected the electrical signal from the ignition wires of a vehicle engine. The perforated plate is an air deflector to divert the airstream away from the AN/ASQ-24A tracking set.
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Was this perforated plate design used in any other aircraft? Or is this something that was specific to the AC-130
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A number of aircraft had perforated brakes of various kinds.
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