X-Bombers 1935-1940

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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
 
Zipper730 said:
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
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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
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It does not have a catwalk, so I suppose you could say it is open. But it aint no Lancaster style bomb bay.
 
wuzak said:
Did you even try a search on the web?
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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.
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Is that bar that runs along the underside a structural/load-bearing member?
 
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'
 
nobody questioned the nose gun position top and bottom mounts.
 
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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.
 
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).
 
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