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CHAPTER CHATTER, EAA Chapter 78 3
This educational HD video explains the history of
NASA Releases Software Catalog, aerial gunnery defenses on United States Air Force
Granting the Public Free Access to Boeing B-17 aircraft and how ball-turret and aerial
Technologies for Earthly gunnery crews were trained in operation of
Applications machine-guns targeting, sighting, leading and
engagement. The B-17 defensive gunnery systems
production design on the B-17G included a
bombardier-operated, remotely controlled chin
turret with two .50 in (12.7 mm) caliber M2
Browning machine guns under the nose, with
increased armor protection.
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NASA has released its 2017-2018 software catalog,
which offers an extensive portfolio of software products
for a wide variety of technical applications, all free of
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fees.
This eliminated the B-17's main defensive weakness in
Available in both hard copy and online, this third edition head-on aircraft engagements and before the advent of
of the publication has contributions from all the long-range airplane escorts, B-17s were only equipped
agency’s centers on data processing/storage, business with 8 - 12 .50 caliber M2 Browning machine guns for
systems, operations, propulsion and aeronautics. It defense. Boeing used feedback from aircrews to
includes many of the tools NASA uses to explore improve the team training of each new crewmember.
space and broaden our understanding of the universe. The number of defensive guns increased from four
A number of software packages are being presented 0.50 in (12.7 mm) machine guns and one 0.30 in (7.62
for release for the first time. Each catalog entry is mm) nose machine gun in the B-17C, to thirteen 0.50
accompanied with a plain language description of what in (12.7 mm) machine guns in the B-17G. German
it does. pilots later used the tactic of high-speed strafing
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inflict damage with minimum risk.
