LoL. I don't think we'll be talking Guse out of that nose anytime soon. That said, the J is not out of the question--as was stated earlier. It does mean a new pit and nose. If we were to model the early J from Consolidated at San Diego, we could re-use the tail turret I did. I fear that most fans would argue that the J never looked like that, which is not true. The "preferred" MPC (or SAC-7 offshoot) and Emerson turrets were in short supply at first, and Consolidated, San Diego seems to have stayed with their home-brewed Consol turrets even after the other production facilities made the switch. If I recall correctly, the Emerson made it's debut in the H built by Ford. The Js actually lagged that, using MPCs in the nose (and San Diego the Consul as mentioned), not switching to Emersons until later. The in-game bird has the MPC tail (A6B) and Emerson nose (A15). I think they were more common, but they were not exclusive. Our turret is the A6A.
As a side note, the Emerson was electric; the others were hydraulic. When the hydraulic turrets were used in the nose, they had to "steal" hydraulic pressure from the aicraft's main system because there was not enough room in the nose to have a dedicated pump/system as had the tail. I wonder if that arrangment compromised any of the other systems that used hydraulic pressure.
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