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4/ Interestingly, the B-18 Bolo's top turret seems retractable. I see the nose turrets. Yet I'm having a hard time seeing the ventral turrets, however. Presumably they're also retractable. Any ideas from anyone? #avgeek #aviationlovers #aviationdaily

4/ #Antiquities #Constantinople alongside Rome was either the greatest or 2nd greatest city in the Roman Empire. These models/maps give you an idea of what was. It's worth clicking and zooming in on what's below. You'll see ramparts, hippodrome, Hagia Sophia, etc. @historyhitrome

3/ The B-18 had 2 x 1,000 hp engines, could haul 4,500 lbs. of bombs internally and make 215 mph max, cruise at 167 mph and had a 2,100 mile range (all per Wiki). Though quickly made obsolete as a bomber, it was pressed into anti-submarine warfare as the B-18B or as transports.

2/ hard at Hickam Field and Luke Field (on Ford Island) that day. Of 33 Bolos, 10 were damaged and 12 were destroyed. The 6-man planes had three machine guns in nose, dorsal and ventral turrets. Designers took the graceful DC-2 and made something that's rather ugly. And slow...

@MartinKoenigsb2 @milmodelscene @coloner_raideen @fran962zgz @DesertStorm24ID @VGaglianiCaputo @Robofemoid @USN_Submariner @107Kazuno @clark_aviation 7/ #WW2 #avgeek Up to (?) four B-32s flew a handful of combat operations/recon missions. 8/18/45 two B-32s fought three A6M Zeros / N1K2-J fighters. A B-32 damaged; one man WIA; one KIA. 8/28/45: two B-32s crashed separately, killing 15 of 26 crew. Note: turrets; no turrets.

@MartinKoenigsb2 @milmodelscene @coloner_raideen @fran962zgz @DesertStorm24ID @VGaglianiCaputo @Robofemoid @USN_Submariner @107Kazuno 2/ Consolidated B-32 Dominator development started 1940, two years after the B-29's development started in 1938. But Consolidated could use its own B-24 Liberator as a starting point. You can see it in things like the XB-32 prototype's twin vertical tail and bomb bay. But the...

#avgeek #aviation #WW2 The Consolidated B-32 Dominator bomber was designed as a backup to the more famous B-29 Superfortress. B-32 would have similar defensive armament and payload, greater range and speed (and probably cost less). So what happened? 1/

#tanks #WW2 #history #MAFVA Italy never built a real heavy tank or a modern medium tank. But the P43 bis #models in wood/CGI/plastic fascinates with T-34/76 / Panther influences. Has anyone made a model P43 bis?
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Lafayette Escadrille - #Aviation #history #WW1 #USAF #WW2 A brilliant NEW #LafayetteEscadrille documentary by Darroch Greer and Paul Glenshaw. America's first fighter squadron flew for #France. Their name honors the American Revolution's young French hero. https://t.co/EOk30Ukdh3

@templefugate @DesertStorm24ID @centerepublican @GrampaYour @drunkvegans @MartinKoenigsb2 @TinaCoates1 @HonorJustLoyal @SomewhereOutT12 @sitnikov_94 @Robofemoid @RR567604 @Adventuringgal @RivetsAndPins @DoktedFlinflon @JClark10101 @hvm1333 @GemmaK24 5/ ... so-called #HerdImmunity. The infamous Spanish Flu killed 675,000 Americans out of 105,000,000. It was far less lethal than COVID, but even that rate applied to our current 330 million population would be ~2,000,000 dead.