Question for WWII buffs

He was trained to not shoot his own plane.

By ceasing the trigger pull.

Likely the same way I keep from shooting the floor below me before I point the weapon down range at the gun range

I dont tug on the trigger

There was a device that prevented the gun from firing if the gun was in a position where the bullets would impact the tail fin.

By not doing what Henry Jones Sr. is demonstrating in this scene.

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How did the rear gunner keep from shooting off his own plane's tail?

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It's probably the type of thing you only do once.

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He was trained to not shoot his own plane.

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Well done, glass.

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He was trained to not shoot his own plane.

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That shite don't work so well in the heat of combat.

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I saw something on history channel about some prop planes with guns situated behind the propellors and the gear box had a hitched relay to the firing mechanism and it would actually stop firing at perfectly timed intervals so the bullets pass between prop blades in motion

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Exactly. When this was introduced in WWI, it gave the German flyers a tremendous advantage the allies only countered by salvaging one from a downed German plane.

The same type of interrupter was placed on rear-firing guns.

Obviously when jet fighter became the norm, it fell out of use on fighters. Although some jet bombers still used them on their blister cannons.