Milsurp After Hours

Is this real or imagined? Propaganda? A prototype that quickly failed? Where's the guy's bullets? Shouldn't there be a belt of them some place? Or maybe I just don't see it. In any case this idea couldn't have lasted too long in it's first configuration.

From a hundred years ago.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/ ... d-1/seq-1/

I know that is supposed to be hundred year old picture but it looks faked to me , looks like the Wright brothers plane and the pic of the guy with the gun is faked in there , he looks as though he is standing which would have been correct for a rear gunner in a biplane and the gun is on a tripod in front of an open seat which he is behind .

I was reading an article today which has now proven that the majority of WW1 dog fight photos were faked back in the 1930s by a couple who made a fortune by producing a book allegedly of a WWI pilots diary , he was supposed to have strapped a camera to a machine gun , the camera would start taking pictures when the gun was fired .
It was all fiction and the dog fights wee created with models . But ever since WWI they had been used as historical reference because no one expected it to be a fraud .
It wasn't until after the couple had died and their possessions were left to a museum the fraud came to light .

Dave

Article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... money.html

Don't know if its a fake but the gun looks like a Lewis gun, you can just make out the drum mag on top.

Well... those fly boys did have some problems. The aerial artillery was being developed too.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/ ... d-1/seq-1/

Its a fake . Check out the size of the pilot then the gun and gunner..........................

The question should be: Is the newspaper a fake?

Aughnanure wrote:The question should be: Is the newspaper a fake?

I hadn't looked at the rest of the page till you mentioned it , most definitely faked . Its just cuttings from different papers laid out badly .

Dave

Dave 101 wrote:

Aughnanure wrote:The question should be: Is the newspaper a fake?

I hadn't looked at the rest of the page till you mentioned it , most definitely faked . Its just cuttings from different papers laid out badly .

Dave

All 8 pages?

It's one of several real newspapers published on on particular date. It's from the Seattle Star. The paper is real. Maybe somebody who supplied them with a photo is creative with photo manipulation..... long before Photoshop and such.

Here's a real prototype.