There’s a hopper-style clip which uses a servo to drop one ball at a time into the launching tube. An Arduino Uno is responsible for slewing the turret, and handling the firing process.

The B-17 Ball turret. Every military aviation fan has looked at this iconic piece of ww2 equipment and wondered how on earth anyone could be brave enough to spend a mission inside this cramped ...

Suspended beneath the bomber in a cramped, glass sphere—ball turret gunners faced death with every mission. Maddow Blog | Among the problems with Trump’s ‘free’ luxury jet from Qatar ...

It’s brief but brutal — and for me, somewhat personal. The turret in question could be found at the bottom of a B-17 bomber — a plexiglass ball containing two .50-caliber machine guns and a very short ...

It was the 18th mission Mitchell, a Sheffield native who lives in Trussville, had flown as a ball turret gunner with the 348th Bomb Group. The job required Mitchell, then 135 pounds, to fire at ...

Project volunteers at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force Tuesday morning installed the ball-turret on its B-17G the City of Savannah. The installation of the small, rotating turret ...

WWII veteran William Bieber, famed for his bravery as a ball turret gunner in the Army Air Corps, was celebrated for his remarkable service. For those unfamiliar, the role of a ball turret gunner ...