Affirmative, the US paid a huge price each year to fix the damage done by our armor during exercises.
Interesting that those two have US Mail on the fuselages. Guess there was not much call for very expensive airmail back then.
If I remember, airmail was 12 cents then. One can certainly see the influence that this airplane had on the SBD.
Jack Northrop Series....Alpha, Gamma, Delta. I used to see these at the old Washington, D.C. airport (where the Pentagon is now). These are Gamma's. Texaco Oil Co. flew the Northrop Gamma "Sky Chief". Great airplanes in the '30's. The wing structure and wing- to- center section design was also used on the Douglas DC series. Jack Northrop never got the recognition for all the incredible design techniques and structural analysis methods that are still used in metal construction. Plus his flying wing stuff.
The Boeing 707 used the multiple stringer and bolt flange in the wing joints but the bolt flange was internal instead of external. The stringers terminated at a " bathtub" fitting where the connecting bolts were imbedded and flush with the outer skin loft. The flange was internal and the connecting bolts were inside the wing. Still a Northrop concept.
The Delta led to the A-17 attack plane for the U.S. Army, and an eventual development of the design was the SBD Dauntless that sank 4 Japanese carriers at Midway.
Are photos of photos of cool planes allowed? The corner of my home office. The lunar lander is actually a needlepoint replica of the stamp, a framed Fortune magazine cover from 1940, a signed/numbered print of the '57 and Sabres by Alex Durr, and the B-25 print is signed by Dick Cole (twice -- the print was pre-signed, but I stood in line to get him to do it in person). Image Unavailable, Please Login
I did this one for Dick Cole before he died. It was supposed to be presented to him at Sky Ball but they never did it for unknown reasons. I still have the original. Image Unavailable, Please Login
