Talk:Foster mounting

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New Article[edit]

Done about all I can with this one for the moment - still have a couple of cites to locate. Hope everyone sees it as an improvement on the old one, even as it is?. -Soundofmusicals (talk) 21:26, 20 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Someone has an obsession about "no comma before an conjunction"!![edit]

Fair enough in a "list" situation - as in "The wombat eats roots, shoots and leaves". However in a case where the conjunction combines, not items in a list, but separate clauses - as in "Even the best synchronization gears were liable to failure, and there were special hazards in firing incendiary and explosive ammunition through the propeller arc" a comma is plainly an improvement, if not mandatory. It has been necessary to reverse several well meant edits in this article to correct this tendency. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 03:10, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Schräge Musik[edit]

The Schräge Musik mount was in lots of ways nothing like the Foster mount and (I suspect) not in the least inspired by it. Mention of the link (while definitely worth the trouble) wants to be nuanced if it's not to mislead. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 03:56, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"Forward and upward"[edit]

That picture of the twin guns on the "Foster compatible" camel has always puzzled me a bit - on looking at it properly - the starboard Lewis gun is NOT "slid back" on its Foster mount, in fact it's not actually "mounted" at all! It may be just a bit of carelessness in setting up the picture for the camera - but it looks as if the pilot concerned has had the starboard gun fixed to fire forward and upward - avoiding the fiddly nature of trying to aim and fire even one gun in the "Ball/McCudden position". All fascinating stuff - even if it's just a little too speculative (not to mention peripheral) to be mentioned in the article. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 04:40, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Added it to the picture caption, after some thought. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 03:21, 29 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]