Ugly stepsister of the DC-2

[Wildr1]

He got all my B-18 and Digby info to, including scans of the 4-part High Flight article, Distended Douglas.


Chris

John sent that distended article to me also. His Boeing XF-6 was also from my reference.

 

[dogsbody]

Sometime between 1941 and 1943, as my father's ship, HMCS St. Laurent sailed near the Canadian East Coast, Douglas Digby 757 flew over the convoy his destroyer was escorting. The ship's photographer took this picture and I inherited it when Dad passed away in 2005. The photo I have is about 1.5 inch by 2 inch in size. I managed to blow it up enough to see the number.


Chris

 

[Wildr1]

Details, some from a LIFE magazine photo shoot.

 

[Wildr1]

 

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[wlewisiii]

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Love the shadows in formation on the water in this shot.

 

[Wildr1]

More Bolo's

 

[vikingBerserker]

Man you do some nice work.

 

[Wildr1]

Man you do some nice work.

Thanks for the compliment, my third a/c to do profiles of. If you are serious about the B-10's we should talk, re: units, markings, models, countries etc., are you including the Dutch 139's, Argentine, Chinese, Thai, and (captured Dutch) Japanese versions. As for photos, I can check on the original prints I have. Where are you located?

 

[Wildr1]

 

[Wurger]

 

[Wildr1]

More B-18s

 

[dogsbody]

Anyone have information on this one?

 

[dogsbody]

Another picture, showing the nose radar.

 

[Prop Duster]

There is nothing ugly about the B-18. Of only six air frames left in existence, the only remaining B-18A is on display at the Castle Air Museum in Atwater California.

Yeah, gotta say its, to me, kinda ugly. but at that time in American Aviation there was a lot of "well this may be IT designs" . But as time and events proved some were not good enough to endure.

 

[Wildr1]

 

[Wurger]

 

[vikingBerserker]

Awesome!