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A good study of the last variant of the (aircraft) Lewis, the Mk.lll, which appeared late in the war. It is mounted here on the No.2 Scarff ring of a Handley Page 0/400 and has the improved Mk.ll deflector bag. A No.5 type magazine with the late version of the Norman vane foresight, a ring back sight and Hazelton muzzle attachment are fitted.

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A Mk.ll Lewis with a Mk.ll deflector bag (about to fall off). In this posed incident the weapon is mounted on an Anderson arch with sliding telescopic tube, one of several different mounts used on the FE2b. This one was to enable the gunner to fire to the rear (over the top of the wing). In order to do so he had to adopt this position. Under such cumstances the fitting of the of shoulder stock could be useful allowing a free hand to hang on !

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The 'RNAS Pattern' Lewis without a magazine, on the starboard gallows mount of an F.3 flying boat. Note the extended central pillar to accommodate the larger 97 round No.5 magazine.

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Basic training, very basic..

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A pair of Mk.III Lewis guns on the late RNAS/RAF twin mount.

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A Lewis Mk.ll Machine gun on a early form of Foster mount on an SE5a - in this instance the Shuttleworth Trust's F904. The clip and cable attachment on the hand grip was squeezed by the pilot to release the forward clamp securing the fore part of the gun. The other cable is the remote trigger control.

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Spandau guns

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A nice shot of the captured Fokker E.lll 196/16 which was taken intact on April 10 1916. The mounting of the IMG08 is clearly shown here, and the gun carries the simple rear sight and gate foresight. The typical sparse cockpit of Fokker aircraft is also apparent.

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Fokker D.VII of 1918 fitted with a pair of IMG08s which are fitted with an unidentified form muzzle booster/flash eliminator.

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Here is an IMG mounted on a Rumpler C.IV in 1917. An early Kingstrom device is fitted and the gun is fitted with a muzzle gland. The synchronisation system appears to be of the flexible drive variety.

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German machine gun MG 08/15 for aircraft (version "L") with interrupter gear; intended for single hand use (Deutsches Museum Munich).

The official nomenclature was the IMG08, the letter 'I' being in lower case as the model was a modified ground gun which had been converted into an air-cooled weapon (I = luftgekuhlt or air-cooled).

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Twin IMG08 mounted on a Pfalz E.ll, often mistaken for a Fokker.

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All synchronisation systems were subject to failures as clearly shown by the perforated airscrew of this Albatros C.lll. It employed a Fokker push-rod system activated by a cam placed behind the airscrew.

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Three views of the IMG 08 final format shows a pill box shaped round counter fitted to the rear of the breech case, the lower drawing of the right hand side of the gun shows the final form of the Kingstrom device which enabled the pilot to cock his gun more comfortably and to assist in the clearing of some stoppages in the air.

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Two IMG08 fitted to a Hansa-Brandenburg W.12 in 1917. The flexible synchronisation cable can just be seen rising to meet the trigger motor on the bottom of the breech case. The German Navy used the IMG08 much longer than the Army.

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