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04:09:33pm
For myself, I am particularly fond of the meters that show airplanes, so I thought I would share a few.
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Very interesting, Roy.
The single engine fighter designs are all based on the Curtiss P-40C.
The 4-engine bomber design with the twin tail appears to be the XB-32. This was an ill-fated prototype that had stability problems associated with the tail design. It first flew in September, 1942, but the tail design took more than a year to sort out. It eventually entered limited production (only 118 were built) with a single tail fin nearly 20 feet tall. The production model was finally delivered in September, 1944. By this time, the B-29 was in combat.
-Paul
PS, Here is a great write-up on the B-32 Dominator:
B-32 Dominator
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05:54:09pm
A great story. I am glad I included the "Dominator" meter, even though it doesn't picture the aircraft!
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and i had never heard of the Dominator. I thought I knew all the US military aircraft of that war (those that actually went into production and lost the X from their designation)
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11:45:24am
Not a US one, but a later Canadian airplane meter, from an RCAF base.
Anybody care to identify the airplane? From the location of base and the type of plane, it might be an anti-submarine aircraft.
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It has to be the venerable Argus with the card from 1968 and Greenwood.
They were at Summerside as well. Sat in the nose looking out at the Atlantic Ocean one time. I was working the day we had a fatal crash of one. Heading right for the hangar and the Met Office, put on full flaps, turned, cut the back off a Nordair Electra. Lucky it was there else he would have cart-wheeled all over the airfield.
It was a great airplane, replaced later by the Aurora.
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27 Dec 2021
04:09:33pm
I have been sorting a large lot (about 1000 covers) of WWII era US meter covers.
For myself, I am particularly fond of the meters that show airplanes, so I thought I would share a few.
Closeups (colour adjusted)
Roy
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04:33:46pm
re: US WWII era meters with airplanes
Very interesting, Roy.
The single engine fighter designs are all based on the Curtiss P-40C.
The 4-engine bomber design with the twin tail appears to be the XB-32. This was an ill-fated prototype that had stability problems associated with the tail design. It first flew in September, 1942, but the tail design took more than a year to sort out. It eventually entered limited production (only 118 were built) with a single tail fin nearly 20 feet tall. The production model was finally delivered in September, 1944. By this time, the B-29 was in combat.
-Paul
PS, Here is a great write-up on the B-32 Dominator:
B-32 Dominator
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27 Dec 2021
05:54:09pm
re: US WWII era meters with airplanes
A great story. I am glad I included the "Dominator" meter, even though it doesn't picture the aircraft!
Roy
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and i had never heard of the Dominator. I thought I knew all the US military aircraft of that war (those that actually went into production and lost the X from their designation)
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31 Dec 2021
11:45:24am
re: US WWII era meters with airplanes
Not a US one, but a later Canadian airplane meter, from an RCAF base.
Anybody care to identify the airplane? From the location of base and the type of plane, it might be an anti-submarine aircraft.
Roy
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re: US WWII era meters with airplanes
It has to be the venerable Argus with the card from 1968 and Greenwood.
They were at Summerside as well. Sat in the nose looking out at the Atlantic Ocean one time. I was working the day we had a fatal crash of one. Heading right for the hangar and the Met Office, put on full flaps, turned, cut the back off a Nordair Electra. Lucky it was there else he would have cart-wheeled all over the airfield.
It was a great airplane, replaced later by the Aurora.
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