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	Alan Site Supporter	Joined: December/10/2003 United States Posts: 15728 IP Logged
Posted: February/27/2021 at 11:42am		Quote

Kuhn, I think you are up!

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Posted: February/27/2021 at 11:52am		Quote

I know Alan,

I posted on page 226.

But here it is again.

OK short and sweet.

1. Made of and assembled using a radical material and process for the time.

2. Designed to a US Navy requirement and accepted in 1942.

3. High wing cantilevered monoplane.

	Sparky Lifetime Site Supporter Head Curmudgeon	Joined: February/10/2004 United States Posts: 7491 IP Logged
Posted: February/27/2021 at 7:32pm		Quote

I just spent a lovely afternoon at the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio today. They had a few new items.... Of interest are the MIGs from "Constant Peg" program were there. I don't know how many Mig-23's they have but one flew over from Tonopah to Fallon to gum up or works with a real MIG! The fighters were beside themselves to have the real McCoy out there to turn with. As an A-6 attack pilot I just wanted my pointy nose brothers to do their job. Keep them off my back while I get busy with the task at hand. After all we win wars by killing the bad guys by the dozens and hundreds, not one at a time at 30,000'!
And if necessary by the millions.
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Posted: February/28/2021 at 2:33am		Quote

Sparky.

Nope. Not correct.

1. Made of and assembled using a radical material and process for the time.

2. Designed to a US Navy requirement and accepted in 1942.

3. High wing cantilevered monoplane.

4. Transport command.

5. Had everything "but the kitchen sink".

	Sparky Lifetime Site Supporter Head Curmudgeon	Joined: February/10/2004 United States Posts: 7491 IP Logged
Posted: February/28/2021 at 11:27am		Quote

C-87 Liberator Express

A passenger version of the B-24
Sparky

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Posted: February/28/2021 at 11:37am		Quote

Nope.

Not that

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Posted: March/01/2021 at 2:00am		Quote

Quote: kuhn

Sparky.

Nope. Not correct.

1. Made of and assembled using a radical material and process for the time.

2. Designed to a US Navy requirement and accepted in 1942.

3. High wing cantilevered monoplane.

4. Transport command.

5. Had everything "but the kitchen sink".

Taken too long.

Sparky seems to be the only one interested. Sooo ...

ANSWER IS: The Budd Conestoga.

Navy designation RB-1

Army Air Forces designation C-93.

Manufactured completely of stainless steel and assembled using the

"shot welded" method. I assume that's like the current "Spot welding".

	Sparky Lifetime Site Supporter Head Curmudgeon	Joined: February/10/2004 United States Posts: 7491 IP Logged
Posted: March/01/2021 at 7:49am		Quote

I Looked at the Budd but I didn't think it matched the clues well enough. It was part of the beginning of the airline I retired from in 2017. Flying Tigers bought the Conestoga as their first airplane and they apparently ran out of parts/wore them out and crashed a few before they moved onto other planes. Then an upstart freight company bought Flying Tigers as they were about to go under and rolled them into Federal Express. I don't think more than a handful of Flying Tiger Airlines pilots are left on the payroll. You could tell if a pilot was from FT because they all had a unique employee number. Integrating the pilot seniority list was troublesome and I avoided that discussion with the guys that suffered through the process. I showed up in 1995 after all that happened but the scares were still evident.

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