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Name This AE...218 - 2/3/2009 5:43:07 PM   
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RE: Name This AE...218 - 2/3/2009 5:49:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		B-18s - but when and where? Looks like late 41/early 42 at PH.

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RE: Name This AE...218 - 2/3/2009 5:50:58 PM   
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RE: Name This AE...218 - 2/3/2009 5:54:02 PM   
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RE: Name This AE...218 - 2/3/2009 6:18:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		B-18's at Bellows field after Dec 11, 1941 when they had been transferred. 5TH bombardment group.

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RE: Name This AE...218 - 2/3/2009 7:18:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		OK, one more try. B-18s parked next to hanger 13 on Deceber 17, 1941.

Here is another shot taken at same time , showing it with the famous one of the burned out B-17c.

http://hawaii.gov/hawaiiaviation/aviation-photos/1940-1949/december-7-1941/hickam-field/1941-12-7%20Hickam%20Field%2023.jpg/ha_image_view_fullscreen

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RE: Name This AE...218 - 2/3/2009 9:10:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		As everyone is in exactly the same position, I'd say it was the same shot as Brady's, though his is sharper.

Bit of an ugly aircraft the B-18.

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RE: Name This AE...218 - 2/3/2009 9:59:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		It truly is. One would have a hard time beliving that it decended from a DC-2.

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RE: Name This AE...218 - 2/4/2009 12:56:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		It is an ugly beast.  The lineage is clearly visible in the tail.  The wings are the same as a DC-2 also. 

I wonder if the ugliness contributed to its failure as a bomber.

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RE: Name This AE...218 - 2/4/2009 3:42:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		IIRC the B-18 and B-17 were tested against each other, but the B-17 crashed on takeoff, which didn't do much to make a good impression. So I might take the Bolo's failure the other way around - adopted in 1936 (in the middle of the Depression), it was selected because it was cheaper than the Fort and "there ain't gonna be no war." The DC-2 was a reliable airframe, and it was really the war effort that drove advances in aeronautics.

Just my 2 cents.

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RE: Name This AE...218 - 2/4/2009 3:58:41 AM   
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RE: Name This AE...218 - 2/4/2009 6:39:59 PM   
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Hickum, it is

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