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CONSOLIDATED
[[image - detailed, numbered, cutaway, three dimensional drawing of the B-24J Liberator showing significant locations and equipment on the aircraft. Each piece of equipment is numbered and a legend indicated what that equipment is]]
CONSOLIDATED B-24J LIBERATOR
[[for items 1-60 see page 54]]
61 D/F lop housing
62 Whip antenna
63 Oxygen Cylinders
64 Aileron cable drum
65 Starboard flap-extension cable
66 Wing rib cut-outs
67 Wing centre-section carry-through
68 Two 5-man inflatable dinghies
69 Flap hydraulic jack
70 Flap/cable attachments
71 Hydraulically operated Fowler flap
72 Wing rear spar
73 Port mainwheel well and rear fairing
74 Engine supercharger waste gate
75 3 auxiliary self-sealing fuel cells (port and starboard)
76 Wing outer section
77 Aileron gearboxes
78 Flush-riveted smooth metal wing skinning
79 Port statically balanced aileron (fabric covered)
80 Port wing-tip
81 Port navigation light
82 Wing leading-edge de-icing boot
83 Hopper-0type self-sealing oil tank
84 Engine nacelle
85 Pratt and Whitney R-1830-675 Twin Wasp fourteen cylinder two-row radial engine
86 Hamilton Standard Hydromatic constant-speed airscrew
87 Landing taxiing light
88 Nacelle structure
89 Supercharger ducting
90 12 self-sealing inter-rib fuel cells (wing centre-section)
^[[My turret]]
{91 Martin two-gun electrically operated dorsal turret (0.5 in)}
{92 Turret mechanism
93 Fuselage main frame bulkhead
94 Radio compartment starboard window
95 Bomb-bay catwalk
96 Radio operator's position
97 Sound insulation wall
98 Emergency escape hatch
99 Pilot's seat
100 Co-pilot's seat
101 Co-pilot's rudder pedals
102 Instrument panel
103 Windscreen panels
104 Compass housing
105 Control wheel
106 Control wheel housing
107 Control linkage chain
108 Fuselage forward main frame bulkhead
109 Pitot heads
110 Navigator's chart table
111 Navigator's compartment starboard window
112 Chart table lighting
113 Astrodome
114 Consolidated (or Emerson) two-gun electrically operated nose turret (0.5 in)
115 Turret seating
116 Optically flat bomb aiming panel
117 Nose side glazing
118 Bombardier's prone couch
119 Ammunition boxes
120 Navagator's swivel seat
121 Navagator's compartment hatch (via nosewheel well
122 Nosewheel well
123 Nosewheel door
124 Forward-retracdting free-swivelling nosewheel (self-aligning)
125 Mudguard
126 Torque links
127 Nosewheel oleo strut
128 Angled bulkhead
129 Cockpit floor support structure
130 Nosewheel retraction jack
131 Smooth-stressed Alclad fuselage skinnoing
132 Underfloor electrics bay
133 'Roll-top desk' Bomb-bay doors (four)
134 Supercharger nacelle cheek intakes
135 Ventral aerial (beneath bomb-bay catwalk
136 Nacessle/wing attachment cut-out
137 Wing front spar nacelle support
138 Undercarriage front pivoting shaft
139 Drag strut
140 Bendix scissors
141 Internal bomb load
142 Starboard mainwheel
143 Engine-mounting ring
144 Firewall
145 Monocoque oil tank
146 Mainwheel oleo (Bendix 'pneu-draulic' strut
147 Side brace (joined)
148 Undercarriage actuating cylinder
149 Starboard mainwheel well and rear fairing
150 Fowler flalp structure
151 Wing front spar
152 Wing leading-edge de-icing boot
153 All-metal wing structure
154 Spanwise wing stringers
155 Aileron trim tab
156 Wing rear spar
157 Wing ribs (pressed and built-up former)
158 Statically blanaced aileron (metal form)
159 Starboard navigation light
160 Wing tip structure
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mandc: the dorsal turret (91 & 92) is highlighted in yellow, gun barrels highlighted in red. For text for 1 - 60, see page 54.
