"The recoil of the gun was enough to make it a necessity to mount the gun off-center, so that the firing barrel would be on the centerline, without this particular feature of the design, the gun would have actually pushed the entire nose of the aircraft to one side, throwing of the pilots aim."
So it isn't angled, it is in-line, but only the firing barrel of the 6 is in-line with the centerline of the plane.
Nice solution. Oh yeah - 1100 rounds @ 3900rpm - wow. Not quite 17 seconds of full-auto.
Nowhere could I find anything referring to the recoil slowing the plane - which physics would tend to disprove just from the sheer variance of masses involved.
BUT I have also heard that a full broadside of all the 16 and 8 inch guns on a modern battleship would physically displace the entire ship sideways 200' or so. Hearsay. Unsubstantiated.
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