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Title: What's this?
Post by: Pynyada on May 17, 2002, 07:29:08 PM

What's this?

Title: What's this?
Post by: skernsk on May 17, 2002, 07:40:01 PM

That's the plane from the old bugs bunny cartoon!

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Post by: Sikboy on May 17, 2002, 08:12:47 PM

I think it's March Field

-Sikboy

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Post by: ra on May 17, 2002, 08:20:27 PM

Boeing Model 294 XB-15.

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Post by: GRUNHERZ on May 17, 2002, 08:40:46 PM

Douglas XB19

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Post by: Pynyada on May 17, 2002, 08:48:39 PM

Yup, Douglas XB-19

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Post by: superpug1 on May 19, 2002, 08:35:14 PM

When was that made and what whas the horpower:eek:

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Post by: Pynyada on May 19, 2002, 10:01:26 PM

General characteristics XB-19
Primary function Long-range heavy bomber  
Power plant Four Wright R-3350-5 Cyclone engines (four Allison V-3420-11 inline engines)
Thrust Wright 4x 2,000 HP 4x 1,491 kW  
Allison 4x 2,600 HP 4x 1,940 kW
Wingspan 212 ft 64.62 m  
Weight max. 162,000 lb 73,480 kg
Speed max. 209 mph 336 km/h  
cruising 186 mph 299 km/h
Armament 2x 37mm cannon, 5x 12.7mm and 6x 7.62mm machine guns; 16,830 kg bombs
Crew Sixteen
First flight June 27, 1941
Number built 1

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Post by: Pynyada on May 19, 2002, 10:03:31 PM

And a pic of it in flight in formation with a P-40

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Post by: Xjazz on May 20, 2002, 02:35:54 AM

2*37mm cannon:eek:

For HO blast?

Wait, its a HEAVY jabo!

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Post by: Ossie on May 20, 2002, 01:13:14 PM

Did it have a combat range listed?

Heh, fun with possibilities: In place of bombs, that thing could carry its own escort in the bomb bay :D

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Post by: superpug1 on May 20, 2002, 04:35:36 PM

actualy with that bombload and a few adjustments to the width of the bomb bay you could cary a grimlin or two;)

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Post by: Kevin14 on May 20, 2002, 05:10:20 PM

It looks like a combo of a B-29 and B-17

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Post by: Pynyada on May 20, 2002, 06:06:38 PM

Range about 4700-4800 miles

B-19

Plane mentioned by a hypnotized Bugs at the end of Hare-Brained Hypnotist (Freleng, 1942), by Bugs again in directing the crash landing of Beaky Buzzard in Bugs Bunny Get the Boid (Clampett, 1942) and by Porky as a traffic controller in Baby Bottleneck (Clampett, 1946). (It is also mentioned in the song sung by Red in Red Hot Riding Hood (Avery (MGM), 1943) and worn on the uniform of the giant ballplayer in Batty Baseball , made by Avery for MGM in 1944).

While the B-19 never flew in combat, it did have a public history. Actually designated the XB-19, designed in the late thirties and manufactured by Douglas, it was the largest aircraft built in the United States until the Convair B-36 was built in 1946, outstripping even the huge B-29 Superfortress in size (it had a wingspan of 64 meters). The Army Air Force, in 1940, recognized that the XB-19 had lost most, if not all, of its military importance (it was widely viewed as being underpowered and vulnerable), and the B-19 was removed from the list of its secret projects. The plane became a hot item in the popular press as a radically new long-range bomber to protect America against its foreign foes. The prototype was completed in May of 1941, and made its maiden flight from Clover Field in Santa Monica, California on June 27, 1941 (three years behind the original schedule). The plane quickly faded into obscurity, as more practical planes like the B-17 Flying Fortress and the B-24 Liberator took over the primary bombing roles for the Army Air Force.