X-Bombers 1935-1940

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Wildr1]

Y1B-17

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[Wildr1]

 

[Zipper730]

Does anybody have a shot inside the B-18/B-23 bomb-bay? I'm just curious if it's got the cat-walk arrangment like the B-17/B-24, or the open set-up like the Lancaster/B-25

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[wuzak]

Does anybody have a shot inside the B-18/B-23 bomb-bay? I'm just curious if it's got the cat-walk arrangment like the B-17/B-24, or the open set-up like the Lancaster/B-25

Did you even try a search on the web?

Douglas B-18 Bolo - Wikipedia
File:Douglas Bolo.png - Wikimedia Commons

File:Douglas B-18 Bolo bomb bay, National Museum of the US Air Force, Dayton, Ohio, USA. (31042698368).jpg - Wikimedia Commons
Roland Turner

It does not have a catwalk, so I suppose you could say it is open. But it aint no Lancaster style bomb bay.

 

[Zipper730]

Did you even try a search on the web?

No, I figured I'd search every which way and find nothing.

It does not have a catwalk, so I suppose you could say it is open. But it aint no Lancaster style bomb bay.

Is that bar that runs along the underside a structural/load-bearing member?

 

[Wildr1]

Boeing xb-15 At Felts Field, Spokane Washington, aircraft's immense size allowed flight engineers to enter the wing through a crawl-way and make minor repairs in flight'

 

[vikingBerserker]

NICE!

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff!

 

[Wurger]

 

[Wildr1]

nobody questioned the nose gun position top and bottom mounts.

 

[Capt. Vick]

The whole glazed nose spun around

 

[Zipper730]

You know if you took the fuselage of a large DH Mosquito model, and grafted the wings of a smaller B-17, with the nose of a P-40, you'd have something pretty slick.

 

[Wildr1]

DouglasXB-19 (GBB Great Big Bastard)

 

[Zipper730]

Anybody have any 3-view line-drawings of the XB-15 that are huge? Preferably non-aliased (those are easier to work into graphic art IMHO).

 

[Wildr1]

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Engine change during the war

 

[vikingBerserker]

I loved the way it looked with the water cooled engines. Great pics!

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!