eBay: Douglas B-18A Bolo
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SaparotRob
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I get a kick out of the Bolo. It beat out the Boeing 299.
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WW2 Photo Album Army Air Corps 1939 Hellzapoppin Squadron Nose Art FighterPlanes | eBay
<p>WW2 Photo Album. </p><p>35 photos. 18 of the photos are 8” by 11”’. Group photos show several people wearing hellzapoppin t-shirts. A few other group photos show men and women in bathing suits that may be from the cast of the movie. I haven’t researched to compare faces. The album is in...
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Air Corps Photo: B-18 Bomber on Snow Covered Tarmac, 1940/41 nr 42
Original Air Corps Photo: B-18 Bomber on Snow Covered Tarmac, 1940/41 | eBay
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Nice shots!
DBII
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Protecting the bomb sight or the Beer?
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Original Air Corps Photo: B-18 Bombers on Flightline, 5th Bomb Sqd, 9th Bomb Grp | eBay
International News Photo stamp on the back. The photos above are of the actual photo for sale and are intended to help show condition. Paper and glue residue on the back.
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I finally found the Pictures of the B-18a that I took in 2019 at the Wings Over the Rockies Museum in Denver Colorado. What really caught my attention was the way the outer wing panels are attached, looks to be 100's of 3/8" bolts! Also little details like the manually operated vent on the Dorsal Turret, do you think it is for venting exhaust gasses from firing the machine gun?
This plane had been converted to a cargo plane at some point. That is why it has the large cargo door and the left aft fuselage.
This plane had been converted to a cargo plane at some point. That is why it has the large cargo door and the left aft fuselage.
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DBII
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Nice photos. Wish I was there to see it also.
DBII
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Flashback to my Cav Officer course at Ft Know. We were training in a locked underground bunker on the latest radio procedures and the new encryption device. 1 radio 4 students and two chairs. Two radios on a table.
You'll see the same wing attachment on the DC 3/C-47, as you would imagine, being derived from it.
cammerjeff
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But isn't the DC 3 wing attachment hidden under the wing fillet? I do not remember seeing the bolts exposed before like on the B18?
In 1940 there was an All American Aviation show at Bolling Field where, tucked away in a corner of one hangar, there was a B-18 that was trial-fitted with a 75mm cannon. It was a crude lash-up but apparently it gave valuable data for adapting the B-25 to carry it.
Is the camouflaged plane really the same as the one with the installed gun? I'm asking because in every B-25 "Bible" we can find the photo on the right with the explanation how this particular frame has been used for trials by Army Ordnance Department in 1938 (Capt. Horace Quinn). If the camouflaged a/c is the same but 2 years later, that's a great find!
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I guess that could be. The one in the American Airpower Museum doesn't have it IIRC.
