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Just hanging around: Jari

A look from the other side, tow ropes in plain view: Jari

A nice view from the other cockpit: Jari

Very nice Marcel, one little detail you may want to add, the electrical connection of the TER to the pylon: the small plug as seen in the upper right corner was for the fuzing while the larger plug was for all the rest. Jari

A few pics of them in SEA here: https://blackpony.org/bunos.htm Jari

Here is a video of the YO-10D being tested: Jari

Pat if you are looking for more reference material check here: https://hangarthirteen.org/library/ Jari

Here is a "cheek" addition to this B-17: Jari

Here is another A-4 with the window, note an antenna on the nose: Jari

A view of the left wing root, not as busy as the other side: Jari

Here is a pic of the TA-4 from the USS Hancock 73-74 cruise book, middle left shows after the flight not much extra detail: Jari

Excellent work Pat, in case you want to add detail to the wing root area: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205369039 Jari

Here is a A-4 with the nose window for laser tracker: Jari

Here is one: Jari

You can see some manuals here that may be of help: https://www.lancasterbombers.net/books-notebooks-manuals/ scroll down to the Lancaster section. Jari

Here is a video showing Mk-82s being loaded on a TER (on a A-4 but still a TER), at the 2:40 mark the arming wire swivel is being hooked up to the nose arming solenoid: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/85796 edit: here is a view of a rack on a MER: the arming solenoids are the grey parts on either side of the ejector foot (the one with the rusty screw below the pin). The white part to the left is for electrical fuzing i do believe. Jari

Hi Marcel, here is a TER on a A-4 giving you an idea where the arming wires went: https://www.docdroid.com/AgiGpxf/douglas-a-4-and-ta-4-tactical-pocket-guide-pdf#page=11 scroll down to the next page to see another option for tail ariming/retarded mode for a Snakeye. I don't think the Navy used RBF pins for the individual racks. Jari

Tim check out the A-26 manual to see how they did it, i'm sure the A-20 people used an adapter as well to fit the racks on. Jari

At the 2:35 mark in this video some AN-M40 Parafrags are being dropped by A-20s: https://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675020569_New-Guinea-Campaign_General-Douglas-MacArthur_7th-Division_capture-of-Lae_9th-Division you can view stills of the video below it. I wonder if they used this type of rack: https://www.docdroid.com/K5Qj24z/douglas-a-26-ab-erection-and-maintenance-manual-pdf#page=563 The way they are dropping, and the number dropped (31 by my count - 1 chute probably not deploying) i'd guess 4 racks each with 8 bombs for a total of 32, in the aft bomb bay. Just a guess on my part. Jari

Doesn't answer the question but some interesting details of the Kate, especially during the attack on Pearl Harbor: https://www.pearlharboraviationmuseum.org/blog/nakajima-b5n2/ Jari

Here are the instructions for the Hasegawa 1/48 B5N: https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/10014632 they don't have them but the the 1/72 kit has two yellow ones: https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/10000563 Jari

Maybe that is why this F-4 crew is looking at one with envy: Jari

A nice video of Slufs at Korat AFB: also in the background in some scenes you can see a couple of EF-4Cs, at 27:48 & 42:18, and a pair of F-4Es with TISEO at 47:55 being air to air refueled (video is reversed but still nice). Jari

How they did it before cgi: Some other aviation related movie effects here: https://nzpetesmatteshot.blogspot.com/2011/06/ Jari

Those are the nose and tail cones for the napalm installed before flight. Jari