W.T. LARKINS MEMORIAL COLLECTION
No. 3431. Northrop N-8 P-61B Black Widow (42-39600 c/n 1119) US Army Air Forces
Photographed by W.T. Larkins
10/31/2006. Remarks by
Jack
McKillop: "This is a P-61B-15-NO. One of the major
modifications on this model was the return of the remote-controlled
dorsal turret with four .50-caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns. The
original P-61s were designed with the turret but it had been
removed on the 38th P-61A and the first 195 P-61Bs because of 'a
vibration problem when the guns were fired' although the real
reason may have been that the turret had a higher priority in the
B-29 Superfortress program."