B-47 Stratofortress Type A-5 Fire Control System Maintenance Digest French Armée de l'Air This example is made of

This example is made of an aluminum alloy

or spinning uncontrollably

The pointer makes one revolution every hundred miles per hour

The first flight of the AC-130A wasn't until 1966

indicative of a manufacturing year of 1951 for an order by the US Air Force

B-47 Stratofortress Type A-5 Fire Control System Maintenance Digest French Armée de l'Air This example is made ofThis is an original Maintenance Digest for the General Electric Type A 5 Fire Control System Model 2CFR10A2 used in B and E versions of the USAF's Boeing B 47 Stratofortress Strategic Bomber. It is dated February 1954. The Type A 5 Fire Control System was a radar directed tail defense system using twin 20mm cannons mounted in a tail turret. The system controls were mounted behind the co pilot, who would swivel his seat rearward to operate the system.