From: (Howard Austin)


I can't imagine that, while firing all eight of those .50's in a P-47, that
the whole plane wasn't shaking....much less just the stick. Anybody with
shooting experience in that plane care to detail their experience?
Dave

Never flew the P-47 but firing the six guns in the Mustang created a lot of
noise but little if any vibration. Certainly didn't shake the stick.
Howard Austin

Thanks for the details. It just seems soooo counter-intuitive, between the guns
blazing and the huge engine running, that there wasn't enough vibration in the
cockpit of those planes to jiggle the pilot's teeth loose. The dampening
mechanism on those plane's guns must have been more effective at killing
vibration then I supposed, never having flown any of them.
Dave