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Welcome aboard Matt,
Alan Griffith has a book coming out on the B-32 that will probably be the best ever written on it, but I'm not sure on his publication date.
NARA, NMUSAF and the Smithsonian will probably have what you need. I'd try the first 2 first.
Good luck!
Thanks, will hopefully have something to show soon-ish (by which I mean like January at the earliest)!Can't help you with your requests but welcome to the forum. Would love to see your progress once you get started
Ah, makes a lot more sense than the art museum in Japan I was finding! I'll take a lookNARA = National Archives and Records Administration
https://www.archives.gov
Yeah, I've read through the LiTOT entries a few times, will give that a re-read.legendsintheirowntime.com/LiTOT/Other/B32_index.html has a couple of contemporary magazine articles on the Dominator. There are a couple of photos.
A friend told me that there was some more discussion about the B-32 here, so I thought I'd let you know another lovely little bit of information to keep your interest primed.
Did you know that in 1944 Consolidated proposed a turbo-prop powered version of the B-32? I'm guessing probably not as it came as a surprise to me, too. I have a fair amount of data on it (almost all that exists as it never got beyond the proposal stage), and it will, of course, appear in the book! Thus far I have roughly 42GB (yes...GIBABYTES) of documentation, photos and drawings assembled. While "perfect is the enemy of good" is certainly true, this periodic discovery of completely unknown information cannot be ignored. To do so is BAD RESEARCH, and there is plenty of that out there already. One sees it liberally sprinkled through this and all the other aviation websites all the time. Quite honestly, too many people think Wikipedia actually tells them something, or are looking at a book that has lifted info from another book which lifted it from an earlier book which was wrong to begin with.
For those who want to know when this book will be out, I simply don't know. My co-author and I are hoping by the end of 2020, and that MAY mean having to ignore late-appearing information, but we can always hope for changes in a reprint. Due to contractual and personal agreements I'm sitting very tightly on what all we have. I checked with all parties involved just to release the above. However, it WILL be coming.
Submitted for your consideration,
AlanG
Maty,
My pleasure to share about the B-32 when I can.
Regarding the XB-33, that is a most interesting aircraft. I have at least all the same drawings you have (an amazing number of variants), which I also got from my friend Stan Piet at the Martin Museum. The XB-33 is one of a number of bomber projects I'm researching for a future book title. Actually, I'm pretty sure the photos you received were ones I sent to Stan for their collection. Any time I find something new on a Martin aircraft I send it to him.
There were actually contracts let for the production of the XB-33, which was considered a medium-range heavy bomber. A factory was actually built in Nebraska (IIFRC) to build them. However, the XB-33 contract was cancelled and the factory turned over to Bell(?) for the production of B-29s. I may have some of these facts a bit cattywampus as I have not researched the XB-33 for some time as I work on other research, both for this book and others in preparation.
Good luck with your drawing projects.
AlanG
Thanks, the thread is now live! It can be found hereYep .. that's the correct sub-forum for posting of the thread. So please do that there. There have already been posted threads by Witold Jaworski for such modelling of P-40 and SBD Dauntless. I recommend checking on these.
Glad to hear it!As mentioned before, looking forward to it