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Not Skyvan COIN, but on a similar line of thought;- I remember Ted Talbot, of Concorde intake engineering fame, telling me his first job upon joining the Bristol Aeroplane Company was coming up with a scheme for mounting a 25 pounder artillery gun forward firing from the nose of a Bristol Freighter. This was for the Pakistani airforce to meet a COIN requirement on the North West Frontier. A few ground firings were undertaken from a Freighter cargo deck to make measurements, and check out a “boiler plate” recoil absorber but they never got to do an airborne test.

[QUOTE="Zoo Tycoon, post: 464589, member: 1642"] Not Skyvan COIN, but on a similar line of thought;- I remember Ted Talbot, of Concorde intake engineering fame, telling me his first job upon joining the Bristol Aeroplane Company was coming up with a scheme for mounting a 25 pounder artillery gun forward firing from the nose of a Bristol Freighter. This was for the Pakistani airforce to meet a COIN requirement on the North West Frontier. A few ground firings were undertaken from a Freighter cargo deck to make measurements, and check out a “boiler plate” recoil absorber but they never got to do an airborne test. [/QUOTE]

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