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1 Radar antenna.
2 Radar and radio equipment.
3 Cooling air bleed-off from main duct.
4 Cooling air outlet.
5 Main engine air duct.
6 Outer gun port.
7 Gun barrel support.
8 M-39 20mm cannon (two each side).
9 Ammunition tanks and gun feeds.
10 Retracting automatic gun-sight cowl.
11 External canopy-operating buttons.
12 Oxygen cylinder. Access through same panel
to power controls.
13 Cockpit pressurization control valve.
14 Suppressed aerials.
15 Air outlet.
16 Access to power controls.
17 Fuel fillers; 360, 221 and 310 US gallons.
18 Refuelling earth point.
19 Fuel tank.
20 J57 turbojet giving 10,000lb thrust dry.
21 Compressor air bleed.
22 Fuselage break point.
23 Fuselage break access panels.
24 Afterburner fuel spray nozzles.
25 Afterburner variable exhaust nozzle.
26 Afterburner variable nozzle operating jacks.
27 Rear engine support.
28 Braking parachute stowage.
29 Braking parachute cable pick-up point.
30 Fuel vent.
31 Rudder actuator access.
31 Aileron actuator.
33 Aileron control runs.
34 Inset aileron.
35 All-moving tail. (Heavy-gauge skin between
spars, light structure nose and trailing edge
sections; fin similar.)
36 Air brake.
37 Nosewheel steering motor.
38 Mainwheels, fitted with anti-skid brakes,
retract into fuselage.
39 Undercarriage doors (normally closed with
gear down).
40 Supersonic under-wing tanks (2 75 US gallons).
41 Navigation and identification lights.
42 Leading-edge slats (in five sections each side;
carried on straight outriggers, with secondary
struts to determine angle when extended).
43 Thick skin over multi spars on inner half
wing. Probably changing to stringers and
increased number of ribs outboard.
44 Piano hinge nose section attachment.
45 Retracting bumper.
46 Pressure head boom (full length not shown).
47 Control and pipe runs through spine.
48 Pads and access panels with engine support rig
when tail is removed.
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