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B-17 Sperry Ball Turret (feel free to use)

17.7k MrShenanigansSP  3.1 years ago

My entry for the VR Challenge

History: wiki

Sperry and Emerson Electric each developed a ball turret, and the designs were similar in the nose turret version. Development of the spherical Emerson was halted. The Sperry nose turret was tested and preferred, but its use was limited due to poor availability of suitable aircraft designs. The Sperry-designed ventral system saw widespread use and production, including much sub-contracting. The design was mainly deployed on the B-17 Flying Fortress and the B-24 Liberator, as well as the United States Navy's Liberator, the PB4Y-1. The ventral turret was used in tandem in the Convair B-32, successor to the B-24. Ball turrets appeared in the nose and tail as well as the nose of the final series B-24.

Full history if you wanna learn more about it :)

Features:

Full interior (not exactly)
Nice looking (tried my very best)
You can look around
You can shoot in VR with the buttons on the side
Custom Gunsight (obviously there's no built in gunsight)
Only 92 parts
Mobile Friendly

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How to use:

Step 1: Hover over the black part on the bottom of the turret
Step 2: Disconnect all connections
Step 3: Grab the rotator at the top
Step 4: make it a sub assembly
Step 5: scale it done to your likings
Step 6: Attach it to your plane. Done

Feel free to use just give a little bit of credit it's up to you if you don't give credit :)

Inspired by: @TonnkatuTonnkatuThePig B-17 with the ball turret

Note: this turret is faced backwards since the B-17 ball turret is faced backwards

Ps: MrShenanigans

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General Characteristics

  • Created On Android
  • Wingspan 17.8ft (5.4m)
  • Length 27.1ft (8.3m)
  • Height 52.5ft (16.0m)
  • Empty Weight 834lbs (378kg)
  • Loaded Weight 834lbs (378kg)

Performance

  • Wing Loading 620.5lbs/ft2 (3,029.6kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 1.3ft2 (0.1m2)
  • Drag Points 2012

Parts

  • Number of Parts 92
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 302
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    6,419 dabestsock

    @MrShenanigansSP I know I'm late
    But how do you muti select

    +1 10 months ago
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    Спасибо за возможность создать нормальный бомбер

    +1 2.5 years ago
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    4,835 Captain247

    The turret is almost as big as the plane...

    +1 2.5 years ago
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    Most dangerous job of ww2 now avaible om VR

    +2 2.5 years ago
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    @EchoVehicle is it? Well you could just use the multi select tool to change the size

    +3 2.9 years ago