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  • Member since
    January 2003
  • From: NE Georgia
Posted by Keyworth on Friday, March 21, 2003 11:06 PM
Check the book "Silent Wings at War" by John L. Lowden Smithsonian Institute Press 1992; pages 4 and 5 offer an interior and exterior view of the nose reinforcement and cable attachment points in good detail. Good book, too. - Ed
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Posted by convair on Friday, March 21, 2003 4:11 PM
A guy sent me this website link:
www.yolo.net/~jeaton/waco/1cg4c47.htm
The photo is very clarifying...
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    February 2003
  • From: USA
Posted by senojrn on Thursday, March 20, 2003 2:04 PM
Actually, the tail cone was completely removed, and the hook was attached to the internal airframe directly beneath the verticle stab. I have seen some very vague distance B/W pictures of this towing system in books through the years, but nothing of detail. From what I understand, the hook was actually an eyelet type attachment point and the cable was attached to it or through it. Hope this helps a little; sorry it's not more helpful. Have you looked at pictures in books about D-Day and the Airborne assault. They might give you at least something to "look" at.
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C-47 "hook"
Posted by convair on Thursday, March 20, 2003 1:08 AM
Hello, please I need pictures/drawings showing the attachment point of the towing cable (for a glider like the Waco CG-4) on C-47's. The only information I have got was that the C-47 tail cone was adapted with a "hook" that holds the cable, but I was not able to find any photo or drawing of this tail cone hook; I need this data because I would like to build a C-47 ready to tow a CG-4 in 1944 D-Day (1/72 scale kits), and I need to see the cable attachment point on the C-47 to reproduce it. For example, british aircraft like the Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle had a hook apparatus to hold the towing cable while towing an Airspeed Horsa glider, in 1944.
Can you help me?
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