Subject: US (Brit/Japanese/German/USSR) Use of Gun Cameras in Fighters??
From: Stephen Harding
Date: 7/15/03 6:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time
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ArtKramr wrote:

They were called GSAP cameras for Gun Sight Aiming Point. And all our
fighters
had them. They took 16mm film in magazines.

Do you know how the GSAP cameras actually worked?

Simple. When the guns were fired the cameras rolled.


I believe I've seen sequences where the film is clearly still running
after the shooting has stopped, so I'm thinking pulling the trigger
started the film rolling, and then it would run a few secs after the
trigger was released.

Possiber. I guess there might have been more inertia in the film transport than
in the firing mechanism of the guns

Did they ever put gun cameras on bombers? I'd suppose not since there
would be a lot of guns to record, and the wide angle of action would
make for a more complicated camera mounting system.

How about your B-26's with the fixed gun packs up front? Did a GSAP
go with that installation?


Never recall a GSAP unit on a Marauder

..


SMH

Arthur Kramer
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