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Whatsthisplane? - 9/17/2004 9:31:47 PM   
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Although this one is in post war livery it is indeed a WW2 US production model.

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RE: Whatsthisplane? - 9/17/2004 9:40:30 PM   
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RE: Whatsthisplane? - 9/17/2004 9:42:13 PM   
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RE: Whatsthisplane? - 9/17/2004 9:45:30 PM   
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RE: Whatsthisplane? - 9/17/2004 10:13:56 PM   
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It is a Budd Aircraft RB-1 Conestoga. All stainless steel welded construction, so the xtra credit nodd goes to Irrelevent.

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RE: Whatsthisplane? - 9/17/2004 10:19:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		Looks like oneof those plane charicatures.

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RE: Whatsthisplane? - 9/17/2004 10:20:22 PM   
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I wasn't sure about mine, but it looked 'close'.
ah, well.

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RE: Whatsthisplane? - 9/17/2004 11:34:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		It must have sucked to have been a pilot of one of those things, because you know all the other pilots are laughing at you behind your back. Even the C-47 pilots can brag that they're carrying paratroopers or flying supplies over "The Hump" (actually, quite dangerous).

But that thing... What's a pilot gonna brag in the O-club, "Hey! I fly a plane thats fatter than a bus, and has no rivets! Woo-hoo!"

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RE: Whatsthisplane? - 9/18/2004 12:08:36 AM   
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RE: Whatsthisplane? - 9/18/2004 1:11:56 AM   
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Rogue -- It was a very, very thin stainless steel. Interesting to see the dissassembled parts of most of one at the Pima Air and Space Museum. Apparently they can't rebuild it because the tech for spot-welding such thin sheets of steel is now "lost technology."

Gives one yet more reflection on US material abundance and innovation in WW2. What other nation, worried about aluminum shortages, would have substituted stainless steel?

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RE: Whatsthisplane? - 9/18/2004 1:14:58 AM   
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Length: 68' 0 (20.7 m)
Height: 31' 9" (9.68 m)
Wingspan: 100' 0" (30.5 m)
Wing area: 1400 sq. ft. (130 sq. m)
Empty Weight: 20,156 lb (9,150 kg.)
Weight loaded: 33,860 lb (15,372 kg)

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RE: Whatsthisplane? - 9/18/2004 7:53:16 AM   
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RE: Whatsthisplane? - 9/18/2004 10:20:31 AM   
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RE: Whatsthisplane? - 9/18/2004 12:38:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here is a website I found on the Conestoga with a little of it's history.

http://www.microworks.net/pacific/aviation/rb_conestoga.htm

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