C-46 Commando question

It's some kind of intake, although I can't find any pics clear enough to see farther down inside of it, but it's definately not a window...

When I get home I'll look throught the Burma book.

I had this same question when I built my C-46. I sent an inquiry to Daniel Brett who now owns Williams Brothers because I thought a piece of glass was missing from the kit. He said this is an air intake. There is an error in the original Williams Brothers instruction sheet regarding the main landing gear. The one marked for the left goes on the right side and vice versa. This is supposed to be corrected when a new instruction sheet is printed. There are some good photos of the nose at cybermodeler.com

Check your photo references it is an air intake to cool the avionics as well as vent the cabin.

 

This is as close as I could get to a CIA C-46 with out getting turned in or shot.  will this help?

 

The aircraft originally had a gasoline powered putt-putt apu under the cockpit floor to charge the batteries and start the engines, as it was operating from really primitive airfields. Later this was moved to a shelf on the blukhead at the fore end of the cargo compartment.

So far, the air intake has the most votes!  I will have t o reshape the putty I put in there to make it look more like an intake.  What a simpler age it was back then.  Ever wonder if a bird ever got pulled through it during flight?

 

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Baysider   

Yikes.  Nothing like having raw gasoline sloshing around under the cockpit! 

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Baysider

Apparently there were 31 aircraft lost in the CBI theater to mid air explosions. The culprit however was more likely accumulated gas fumes in the wing structure. Sometimes these things were flying dozens of drums of gas! Lose an engine and they'd have to start heaving drums, jeeps etc. out the door.

bondoman

Apparently there were 31 aircraft lost in the CBI theater to mid air explosions. The culprit however was more likely accumulated gas fumes in the wing structure. Sometimes these things were flying dozens of drums of gas! Lose an engine and they'd have to start heaving drums, jeeps etc. out the door.

 

And when they made their combat debut in the ETO during Operation Varsity, many caught fire from flak hits that a C-47 would have survived due to self sealing tanks.

 

Yup- zombie thread resurrection...  But somebody linked this thread back to life...

That Bondoman dude knew his Commandos...

Yeah he was an okay guy... I wonder whatever happened to him...