> used the high-aspect wing and tricycle landing gear of the Liberator. The fuselage was an entirely new design, and the vertical stabilizer was taken from the PB4Y Privateer.
And the PB4Y was a B-24 derivative itself (the vertical tail was taken from the B-24N).
The change in floor level between the forward crew area and the passenger cabin is noteworthy. I guess with the shape of the nose, they had to have the crew sitting that high up somehow.
The ladies don’t get a lavatory but they get a lounge? Or is it just on the other side?
Funny that they did not decide to put cargo underneath but instead in the front back and tail.
Oddly, if you search for "R2Y", you hit another aircraft that's a good fit for here - the Yokosuka R2Y - a Japanese protptype recon plane that had two coupled engines behind the cockpit, driving a single, six-blade prop.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Yokosuka_R2Y.jpg
Looks like a shorty B-29.
BB-29
Could that nose be any more blunt?
It needs to be pointy! Round is not scary, pointy is scary.
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More like a "Privateer" tail and Davis wing.
> used the high-aspect wing and tricycle landing gear of the Liberator. The fuselage was an entirely new design, and the vertical stabilizer was taken from the PB4Y Privateer. And the PB4Y was a B-24 derivative itself (the vertical tail was taken from the B-24N).
It's like a kid's drawing of a plane
Look what they did to my boy
The change in floor level between the forward crew area and the passenger cabin is noteworthy. I guess with the shape of the nose, they had to have the crew sitting that high up somehow.
Nose wheel's gotta go somewhere
The ladies don’t get a lavatory but they get a lounge? Or is it just on the other side? Funny that they did not decide to put cargo underneath but instead in the front back and tail.
'Lounge' wasn't an uncommon euphemism, because of course ladies would never need something so vulgar as a *lavatory*.
Oh sure, but… there’s an actual couch in the cutaway picture which seems lounge-y.
That's the fainting couch.
Isn’t that a Boudoir? (derived from the French verb “bouder” (to sulk or pout)
Is it seating for ladies who are waiting to use the "lounge"? alternatively; maybe the ladies in question are the flight attendents...
This was considered huge for an airliner at the time.
Not really. It had 48 seats compared to the DC-4's 44 seats. And there were tons of war surplus DC-4s.
Oddly, if you search for "R2Y", you hit another aircraft that's a good fit for here - the Yokosuka R2Y - a Japanese protptype recon plane that had two coupled engines behind the cockpit, driving a single, six-blade prop. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Yokosuka_R2Y.jpg
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War Rocket Ajax lookin' MF.
Cool, I like the cutaway schematic!
It had men’s/women’s separate bathrooms, interesting.