What am I?

[Cowboy1968]

I have been going through my books and i have found some cool planes that have not made it into CFS2. I think they would look cool.

What am I? Take a guess!

[Fibber]

:wavey: OH, OH, call on me!!!!! It was a follow-on to the B-24 Liberator, by the same manufacturers, and was a disaster. It was designed near the end of the war and suffered a lot of problems and very few were built. Those that were were scrapped immediatelt at the end of hostilities.

[Cowboy1968]

:wavey: OH, OH, call on me!!!!! It was a follow-on to the B-24 Liberator, by the same manufacturers, and was a disaster. It was designed near the end of the war and suffered a lot of problems and very few were built. Those that were were scrapped immediatelt at the end of hostilities.

Close, but no cigar!

[Bill Kestell]

Prototype B-32 Dominator.

[Cowboy1968]

Prototype B-32 Dominator.

and the man wins the CIGAR!!!

Yes it was the prototype XB-32. As we all know the B-32 was the back up design to the B-29.

[Cowboy1968]

If i had the software or the talent for modeling aircraft for CFS2, this plane would be my pet project. In my openion this bird is far better looking thne the production B-32.

[Fibber]

Cowboy that was not the B32 dominator! That is what I originally thought. It is actually the C-109 Liberator. Read this article here;
http://home.att.net/~jbaugher2/b24_27.html

You will notice that the B32 has a single stabilizer where-as the C109 has a double!


Here is the article on the Dominator;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-32_Dominator

Notice that the picture shows a single stablizer.

[Cowboy1968]

Fibber, I am sorry to disagree with you, but it is the prototype B-32. The B-32 prototype progressed from this twin tail plane to the single tail aircraft. The photos came from the following resource.

Jones, Lloyd S. US Bombers. Aero Publishing Co. Fellbrook, Ca. 1974

the info can be found on pages 106-108

[Cowboy1968]

Here is the article on the Dominator;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-32_Dominator

Notice that the picture shows a single stablizer.[/QUOTE]

Fibber look at the photograph further down on this page. you will see the twin tail XB-32 that was taken on February 26, 1944. This is the twin tail prototype

[Fibber]

Okay, you win:rapture::ernae:

[Cowboy1968]

Maybe this will help clear up any confustion. Here is a group of photos showing the B-32 from prototype to production

first photo is XB-32, second is the YB-32 and the final is the B-32 production aircraft

[Fibber]

Actually though, the rest of my statement is accurate. The plane was hated by the aircrews and was not too successful. Few were built ( in comparison to the B-24 and others, forget the actual #) and those were destroyed at the end of the war.