A whole bunch of Mauser C96's

DeLano80

Sr Member

• May 23, 2017

• #1

I thought this was an interesting picture. A WW1 Austro-Hungarian plane with a brace of blasters.

 

Nostromo2124

Active Member

• May 23, 2017

• #2

Yes, they used them as improvised anti aircraft-guns (with self made trigger mechanisms) as they convert their former recon planes to bombers and needed something less smaller and more practicable then a water cooled, 10 kilo machine gun!

but there's something other in the picture reminds me on Star Wars more !!!
Anyone recognized this imperial-like hat too [emoji51][emoji6] ?!

 

Last edited: May 23, 2017

dcarty

Sr Member

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• May 23, 2017

• #3

That is awesome! I've never seen that particular configuration before :thumbsup

Dave

 

Sluis Van Shipyards

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• May 23, 2017

• #4

That's crazy! I've got all kind of books on military planes and I've never seen that pic!

 

scarf man

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• May 23, 2017

• #5

So fiddly to load, all those stripper clips! What a nightmare of a setup. Cool!

 

DeLano80

Sr Member

• May 23, 2017

• #6

I have modeled WW1 aircraft since I was 10. So roughly 30 years. I have dozens of research books on all sorts of aircraft. I have never seen this set up before either. Seems very impractical. But a fun picture though!

 

deadbolt

Sr Member

• May 25, 2017

• #7

Wow, like the others have said, I myself have never seen anything like that before. That's wild to see that they even did that!
Makes me wonder if the brace/mount for that thing was made by Mauser or by a third party, like the aircraft manufacturer..?

Very cool, and thanks for sharing the photo!


-Carson

P.S. @dcarty, nice avatar! My nephews and I are big mst3k fans, and pod people happens to be one of our favorite episodes.