Picture of the day.

[MiTasol]

Herman Nelson time

Love those icicles that curve down the side

 

[MIflyer]

A friend told me something interesting about the B-18. It was designed and equipped so that in the event of an intact ditching the crew could rush around and insert corks and plugs to prevent water from entering the fuselage and thereby facilitate recovery of the aircraft.

 

[MIflyer]

Not too bad. We'll have it back on the line in the morning.

 

[MIflyer]

XB-38 Cockpit

 

[MIflyer]

By the way, although that shot is labeled XB-38, the V-1710 powered version of the B-17, in reality it has to be the XB-39, the V-3420 powered version of the B-29.

 

[MIflyer]

This is the USS Enterprise and could be titled, "Gentlemen, DON'T start your engines!" What a packed deck!

 

[MiTasol]

XB-38 Cockpit

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Right hand drive. Most unusual

 

[tyrodtom]

Right hand drive. Most unusual

I think that's the co-pilots seat. Not many gauges, since they had a flight engineer with his own engine monitoring gauges.

 

[MiTasol]

You are probably right but that means the pilot sat further aft with some of his vision obstructed by the copilot.