ORIGINAL: rivetcounter
Dyrden, please patience as I said earlier I would be away for Pfingsten at Munster.
Panther D and A along with all models of Tiger I the driver was unable to drive in a heads up position for the following reasons
You know, it is dangerous to
assert a negative; to say that something is impossible, or that something does
not exist.
Because, how can you be sure it does not exist, unless you search the whole universe?
ORIGINAL: rivetcounter
Seat, foot controls and steering wheel are none adjustable and permanently bolted in place to move the seat back or indeed raise the height then this must be unbolted and either moved back or forward or have spacers placed under the legs of the seat the Bovington Tiger has 12mm spacers beneath its seat.
Or, you could roll up a thick blanket and place it on the seat.
ORIGINAL: rivetcounter
Drivers vision port and hatch are off centre, the driver/ radio operators hatch opens half over the sponson meaning that the driver would have to lean to the left at about 35-40 degrees also the driver is sat slightly forward of the hatch,
So, you would have to lean over? Place your elbow on the sponson.
ORIGINAL: rivetcounter
to see what I’m talking of try driving your car with your head out of the sun roof without pulling your seat back and also placing a ledge around the start of your ribs to represent the sponson
Iactually did arrange some furniture to represent the Tiger's layout exactly, and Iwas able to "drive".
ORIGINAL: rivetcounter
There is room at the back of the driver for the gunner who is the only member of the crew not to have a hatch to peer over the shoulders of the driver there is film footage of a captured Panther A with a guy doing just this he is giving instructions to the driver the Panther is crewed by US troops.
Panthers are not relevant to this question.
ORIGINAL: rivetcounter
Study pictures from Africa this is a hot country where if it was possible for the driver to drive heads up then he would do so
Or, if it were uncomfortable, maybe he would not wish to do so.
You don't know what those people were thinking.
ORIGINAL: rivetcounter
you won’t find a single picture of a driving Tiger in this manner
See, there, you are
asserting a negative.
It took me 2 minutes to find this photo, taken in Tunisia:
David