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[Knochenlutscher]

Hi fellow Members,

Now that I've come across upgrading the B-24s Bomb Hooks I ran into
a dilemma. None of the accesseable Manuals I've sighted seems to include
a good repro of what was actually called Bomb Rack Station Index Chart.



They exist as fake Placards in restored B-24s, but unreadable at times



Those I know, but it wasn't put up like this.
actual B-24s used a sort of Placard Dial Loadout counter instead these.
At least according to a Consolidated Field Bulletin.
In these restored B-24s they used exactly the Manuals repros I'm looking for,
in lack of actual Loadout Dials, none of the restored B-24s seems to own that piece yet.


I found one that was derived from a Privateer Manual here



Anyone having access to a readable reproduction here for the B-24 Index?
Would be awesome and really of big Help if we can find this piece
of History.

Thanks a bunch for stopping by
Tobias

[Kopfdorfer]

These Bombay Config mods are really great Knoch.

Thanks.

Kopfdorfer

[SAS~Storebror]

That one looks just fine to me and it perfectly resembles what's written in the field bulletin IMHO:

Those I know, but it wasn't put up like this.
actual B-24s used a sort of Placard Dial Loadout counter instead these.
At least according to a Consolidated Field Bulletin.

Not sure whether we're talking about the same thing, but the Bal-O-Dial IMHO was just used to calculate weight and CoG, not to select actual bomb rack locations:



Mike

[Knochenlutscher]

Field Bulletin, I just have one example.
Must dig deeper.

Yeah, but this repro Index has a limit, it's just overload Loadout, fine to me,
if I could read, but some I can't indentify.

That dial looks pretty good.
A similar the Flight engineer had for his weight calculations,
the ruler dial mentioned in the Pilots Manual.



The Installed Dial was this:


This even showed the Station Index for the Loads selected.

Update
Found them all, 1942 - 1945, Field Bulletins
https://archive.org/details/consolidatedfieldservicebulletinsvol1194243
https://archive.org/details/consolidatedfieldservicebulletinsvol.2194344
https://archive.org/details/consolidatedfieldservicebulletinsvol.31945

Comes from sth. different these Index Charts. So the Field bulletins we can rule out.

I bet my whatever it comes from the Suitcase with Service Manuals, you rarely see Uploaded somewhere.
https://www.historicflyingclothing.com/en-GB/ww2-usaaf-manuals/usaaf-b-24d-service-manuals---complete-set-c-w-case/prod_17477