page_title: Gondola (airplane)
section_title: Gallery
hierarchical_section_title: Gondola (airplane) / Gallery
context_page_description: Gondola is the general term for the usually-armored ventral casemate-style positions used on many World War II-era military bomber aircraft, especially on German designs, where they were usually known as Bodenlafette, often shortened to Bola.
  Gondolas were either used to house a gunner or a bombardier.
context_section_description: Examples of gondolas on World War II military aircraft:
caption: Heinkel He 177As, with the foreground aircraft's nose prominently showing the bulky bola under the cabin
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