I had hoped to go on a game drive but it had to be booked in advance and this has been rescheduled for tomorrow morning. I took the opportunity to walk into town; there was nothing there so I walked back. With nothing much to do I decided to get a cab to the South African Air Force Museum (Port Elizabeth branch). IT is not a big museum but the people there are all volunteers and really friendly. The museum is located in an ex RAF WW2 hanger that had been the home of 42 Air School Air Gunnery Training Centre. On the wall are a load of lines (see photo above) it transpires that these are the restored gunnery training lines. Apparently they used a mock up Turret (see photo above) the turret had a gun with a light beam attached, the turrets had a motor and moved up and down the hangers in shallow trenches. The trainee air gunners would be required to keep following one of the lines with their “gun” whilst moving along the floor.
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