Re: Douglas XB-19
Sat Dec 28, 2019 10:33 am
Has anyone ever read about cooling problems with the 3350s on the XB-19 as on the B-29?
Re: Douglas XB-19
Tue Dec 31, 2019 5:15 pm
Re: Douglas XB-19
Wed Jan 08, 2020 11:11 am
from the WIX FB page
Re: Douglas XB-19
Wed Jan 08, 2020 11:29 am
I was at Chino many years ago - early 1990s - and in one of the fenced-in storage areas of interesting bits and pieces was a forward fuselage-cockpit of a large US bomber that my memory has was marked (with chalk?) "B-19." My memory must be wrong on this, as I have never heard of anything that matches my memory. Anybody have an idea? No, I did not take pictures!
Re: Douglas XB-19
Wed Jan 08, 2020 12:45 pm
old iron wrote:I was at Chino many years ago - early 1990s - and in one of the fenced-in storage areas of interesting bits and pieces was a forward fuselage-cockpit of a large US bomber that my memory has was marked (with chalk?) "B-19." My memory must be wrong on this, as I have never heard of anything that matches my memory. Anybody have an idea? No, I did not take pictures!
I think they had a B-17 fuselage (not the complete B-17 out front) there at one time and they still have a B-50 fuselage.
Re: Douglas XB-19
Wed Jan 08, 2020 1:00 pm
gemmer wrote:Has anyone ever read about cooling problems with the 3350s on the XB-19 as on the B-29?
No, but being bigger, draggier, and heavier than the B-29 I imagine performance was nothing to brag about.
Re: Douglas XB-19
Wed Jan 08, 2020 1:01 pm
old iron wrote:I was at Chino many years ago - early 1990s - and in one of the fenced-in storage areas of interesting bits and pieces was a forward fuselage-cockpit of a large US bomber that my memory has was marked (with chalk?) "B-19." My memory must be wrong on this, as I have never heard of anything that matches my memory. Anybody have an idea? No, I did not take pictures!
Maybe this?