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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:12:50 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:14:08 PM EDT
[#1]
It's all chromed out and should say US Army Air Force?
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:14:09 PM EDT
[#2]
If you owned it you would spend your entire life polishing it.
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:15:17 PM EDT
[#3]
tag for education
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:15:17 PM EDT
[#4]
No treadmill.
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:16:00 PM EDT
[#5]
National Guard Bureau A26?
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:16:04 PM EDT
[#6]
Cockpit window is raked back at a greater angle.
ETA: No! Wait! The tail! It should have a twin boom tail   ETA #2: Aw, crap! My plane ID skill are really fading. (or my cataracts are getting worse). I thought that was a B-25... For an A-26, it should have more surface area on the tail, and then there's the antenna in front of the cockpit, and no glass in the nose. |
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:16:05 PM EDT
[#7]
Chili with beans!
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:17:26 PM EDT
[#8]
looks like a b25 with a wierd tail no windows in the nose and more modern engines
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:18:43 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:19:02 PM EDT
[#10]
No gun turrets
No guns No paint |
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:19:28 PM EDT
[#11]
National Guard Bureau VB-26B  Good answer, but not the correct one. |
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:19:52 PM EDT
[#12]
What the fuck does that have to do with anything? 
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:20:59 PM EDT
[#13]
I am not a plane expert by any means but here is my wild-assed guess.
There are at least two antennas in different locations. The boomerang looking thing in the front (which is a seemingly odd placement and the little white fin one on top (or that could be part of another plane thta you can't see in the background). |
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:21:43 PM EDT
[#14]
NGB
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:21:49 PM EDT
[#15]
Maybe there is a stove on the plane! I'm hungry! 
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:22:56 PM EDT
[#16]
Maybe a tranny too. In case you're horny. 
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:24:16 PM EDT
[#17]
I cant wait till we get the ignore user button in the next site update so I wont have to read anymore of your pointless and stupid remarks. |
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:25:39 PM EDT
[#18]
Wheels are different.
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:25:42 PM EDT
[#19]
B26 Marauder?
Mike |
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:26:06 PM EDT
[#20]
It isn't flight worthy?
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:27:22 PM EDT
[#21]
It was when the picture was taken.
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:27:34 PM EDT
[#22]
Given the OP's track history, I'll say nothing.
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:27:45 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:27:50 PM EDT
[#24]
Trannys ain't pie! 
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:28:00 PM EDT
[#25]
Last B-25 in service? One of Doolittle's Raiders?
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:28:19 PM EDT
[#26]
Why you gotta hate on me bro?
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:28:35 PM EDT
[#27]
Most Mauraders had 4 bladed props, this has only 3 hamilton standards.
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:28:46 PM EDT
[#28]
Why does the nose say "Air Force" but the tail imply the National Guard Bureau?
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:28:49 PM EDT
[#29]
Get thee back into the wardroom evil blackshoe officer. 
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:28:55 PM EDT
[#30]
It's not in a twisted heap of wreckage on the ramp?
or was that the (Martin) B-26? I just read an article on how the A-26 of WWII became the (Douglas) B-26 of the postwar era. It confused the crap out of me. |
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:29:03 PM EDT
[#31]
so are we looking for something out of place or wrong?
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:29:44 PM EDT
[#32]
B 26 was a completely different airframe. This one is based on the A 26 Invader. Edit; Also, the B 26 was made by Martin Aviation. The A 26 by Douglas. |
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:30:26 PM EDT
[#33]
Historically significant. |
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:31:00 PM EDT
[#34]
Its a highly polished ANG A/26 well actually a B26 with the newer desgination being used in its later service life. Being polished I would say its a VC-26 Executive transport? Maybe even a VERY early version of a "Air Force One" but since the term wasnt used yet its POTUS plane from the 50's?
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:31:32 PM EDT
[#35]
Looks like an A-20...
National Guard Emblem on the tail... |
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:32:19 PM EDT
[#36]
Well, to be correct, the A-26 Invader became the B-26 Invader after WWII with the formation of the USAF. Seems the AF wanted to get rid of the Attack designation, and have only fighters and bombers. So the A-26 became the (Douglas) B-26, not to be confused with the (Martin) B-26. I think... |
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:35:05 PM EDT
[#37]
I think you are on to something there. This one is definetly a transport bird. |
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:38:19 PM EDT
[#38]
OK than what's unusual is it doesn't have a Standard Missile up its ass. Is this the last of the VB-26s? The one with some 9,000+ hours on it? |
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:41:05 PM EDT
[#39]
Lol! |
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:55:20 PM EDT
[#40]
Correct. It was the last operational B-26 in the US Military. It is now at the Paul Garber facility awaiting restoration. The shiney picture is at Andrews AFB in 1972. Here is is 10 years eariler. 
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Posted: 10/11/2007 7:56:31 PM EDT
[#41]
what's so unusual about that? 
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Posted: 10/11/2007 8:09:07 PM EDT
[#42]
Point to the evil blackshoe officer wandering outside the wardroom. 
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Posted: 10/11/2007 8:28:11 PM EDT
[#43]
Thanks for the warbird pic mate,
but i was to slow to get in an answer. I picked it as a modified A-26 invader, due to the diff canopy and the boomerang thingy on the nose.
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Posted: 10/11/2007 8:44:22 PM EDT
[#44]
End of a era.
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Posted: 10/12/2007 7:52:09 AM EDT
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There are still a few flying up in Canada for Airspray as fire bombers, they have a few for sale also. Group Buy anyone???????
ETA; as far as not having a glas nose only the A26C had the bomber nose the A26B had the gun nose. |
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Posted: 10/12/2007 9:06:14 AM EDT
[#46]
God thats a lovely aircraft.
One of the most underrated IMHO. |
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Posted: 10/12/2007 9:14:37 AM EDT
[#47]
Yea, after dropping it's bomb load they could and did go me109 hunting!!
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Posted: 10/12/2007 9:17:23 AM EDT
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it's a A-20 Boston/Havoc light bomber/attack aircraft. made by douglas. the boston was sent to england for lend lease, updated version was used by us and remaned the havoc and designated the A-20.
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Posted: 10/12/2007 9:21:03 AM EDT
[#49]
Holy buckets! 41800 is my Dad's old F-100 (I think). I need to go dig up his photos.
-Gator |
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