Guess the plane?
Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:16 pm
can the guy on the left be over 15 years old? Guess the plane?
Last edited by armyjunk2 on Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.
looks like the inside of
Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:19 pm
a Wellington!!!
Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:24 pm
They let 12 yr olds play with guns back then? He does look rather young!
Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:08 pm
Abermale ?
Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:19 pm
You guys are great to even make a guess, but its this one
Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:29 pm
DC -2 or a C-53?
Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:30 pm
???Hmmm, just looks too narrow, here is a good interior shot of a c-47, looks much wider, number of stringers in the framing is different as well, what model is this?
http://afhra.maxwell.af.mil/photo_galle ... 60_073.jpg
http://afhra.maxwell.af.mil/photo_galle ... 60_073.jpg
Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:34 pm
That is one of the DC-2 derivatives, holedigger. Not sure if it is a C-33. 34, 39 etc, but that is why the narrower flat sided fuselage.
Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:37 pm
Rudder looked wrong for the DC-2, but then again, there were so many variants!
Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:16 pm
I think it is a C-39 which used the C-33/DC-2 fuselage and wings with DC-3 center-section, tail unit and landing gear according to various sources. Thirty-five were built with the last delivered in Sept 1939. I think these were the last of the DC-2 series produced. My 2 cents.
Randy
Randy
Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:17 pm
The headlights under the Cockpit suggest the 33 or 39. Also the window frames in the interior picture match up with those of the DC-2-C39.
Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:24 pm
Wow.., the narrower fuselage really made her not look like a C-47 variant! More like a Wellington body.
Well done!
Well done!
Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:34 pm
The Wellington's fuselage was comprised of "criss-cross" geodesic stringers and looks quite different inside.
From http://www.214squadron.org.uk/
From http://www.214squadron.org.uk/
well yes
Mon Mar 16, 2009 3:03 pm
quite different indeed.
Was she wood and metal?
Was she wood and metal?
Re: well yes
Mon Mar 16, 2009 3:16 pm
the330thbg wrote:quite different indeed.
Was she wood and metal?
Aluminum alloy geodescic frame, with fabric covering.
Cheers,
Richard