Ugly stepsister of the DC-2

[Wildr1]

Air Show in Spokane WA , August 1938

 

[dogsbody]

Big Bang Bolo.

Chris

 

[Wayne Little]

 

[Wildr1]

 

[vikingBerserker]

Very nice

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Wildr1]

B-18 A ( Ebay Purchase)

B-18 B ( Ebay Purchase)

B-18 A , 2nd Bombardment wing My profile art

B-18 A , 2nd Bombardment wing( Ebay Purchase)

DB-2 My profile art.

Prototype, DB-2 second production machine ( Ebay Purchase)

 

[Wildr1]

 

[Wurger]

 

[MIflyer]

Very nice work!
A friend of mine said that the B-18 was a very nice peacetime aircraft, that even featured a supply of corks that you could insert as required to keep the water from coming into the fuselage after a ditching, thereby easing recovery of the aircraft.

Here's another stepsister of the DC-2, which proved to be much more attractive as well as much more successful. Those Japanese girls are always so much slimmer! From the Profile Publication.

 

[parsifal]

Did not realise the G3M was based on the DC-2

 

[Graeme]

Did not realise the G3M was based on the DC-2

Was it? I was under the impression the the G3M evolved from their earlier G1M1 design - which flew 4 days before the DC-2.

Mitsubishi G1M - Wikipedia

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff!

 

[Capt. Vick]

No word on the codes Jonah the shark mouthed Bolo wore?

 

[nuuumannn]

Did not realise the G3M was based on the DC-2

It wasn't. This sounds like one of those times in the 1930s when the US couldn't believe the Japanese could build anything modern without stealing it. Although looking in Japanese Aircraft 1910 - 1941, in the G1M1 or Ka-9 as the company called it, the designers were influenced in their application of modern manufacturing techniques by products of the Junkers concern that had made it to Japan, notably the K 37. Apart from one of the engineers responsible for the design, not one of the Mitsubishi team had any experience in building a modern all-metal design. Not bad for a first time.

 

[Wildr1]

 

[Wurger]

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[vikingBerserker]

I love the shark=nosed version

 

[special ed]

All of the B-18 photos and profiles are great. Definitely bacon.