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Mission to Ploesti: B-24 Liberators Stephen Joiner February 11, 2015 ★ Consolidated B-24 Liberator ★ The big, four-engine B-24 never shared the glory of Boeing's beautiful B-17,.
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The Engine The B24 Liberator was powered by four engines, with two positioned on each wing. These engines were air-cooled, twin-row 14-cylinder Pratt & Whitney R1830 radial engines with 1,000hp each, later replaced with turbo-supercharged versions of the R-1830 of 1,200hp and reaching a speed of 310mph, lending them the name of 'Twin Wasps'.
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On 29 December 2019, the Consolidated B-24 Liberator, one of the most famous bombers of World War II, turned 80 years old. More than 18,400 of this type were built, making it the most produced American wartime aircraft. It gained a distinguished war record with operations in the European, Pacific, African and Middle Eastern theaters.
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On February 24, 1943, three squadrons of B-24 Liberators—goliath, four-engine, 56,000-pound bombers—streaked toward Germany to strike Hitler's vaunted Luftwaffe at its heart, targeting a key production facility in the town of Gotha, Germany.
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Liberator B-24, long-range heavy bomber used during World War II by the U.S. and British air forces. It was designed by the Consolidated Aircraft Company (later Consolidated-Vultee) in response to a January 1939 U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF) requirement for a four-engined heavy bomber.
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B-24 Liberator engine nacelle. [Source: Scott Rose/Warbirds Resource Group] The new design would be the first American heavy bomber in production to use tricycle landing gear — the North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber's predecessor, the NA-40 introduced this feature in January 1939 — with the Consolidated Model 32 having long, thin.
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The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was the Second World War's most numerous Allied heavy bomber and - at over 18,000 made - the most produced American military aircraft.
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The Consolidated B-24 Liberator is an American heavy bomber, designed by Consolidated Aircraft of San Diego, California. It was known within the company as the Model 32, and some initial production aircraft were laid down as export models designated as various LB-30s, in the Land Bomber design category.
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Updated on November 02, 2018. The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was an American heavy bomber that entered service in 1941. A highly modern aircraft for its day, it first saw combat operations with the Royal Air Force. With the American entry into World War II, production of the B-24 increased. By the end of the conflict, over 18,500 B-24s had.
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The B-24 originated in a 1938 request by the Air Corps for Consolidated Aircraft to produce B-17's. But Consolidated's engineer, David Davis, had designed a wing suited for long-range bombers, a wing that offered 15 percent less drag than ordinary wings.
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The major production version of the Liberator was, however, the B-24J with R-1830-65 engines, making up more than one-third of the total production. These were supplied to the US, British, Canadian and other air forces.. Lt. Manuel Trevino,Jr. piloted the Yankee Doodle Dandy B-24 Liberator in the South Pacific. reply. Billy Grubb, e-mail, 28.
Bombardier Wallace Spencer shot down in B24 over Germany during WW II
B-24 Liberator 3-D panorama. Building the B-24.. There was some corrosion and minor damage "plus the desire to make all the systems (engines, props, hydraulics, and electrical) one hundred percent right".. The B-24 flies as part of the Wings of Freedom Tour, visiting over 120 cities nationwide annually with the B-17 Flying Fortress.
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The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was an American four-engine heavy bomber used by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) and other allied air forces during World War II. Of the 19,256 B-24, PB4Y-1, LB-30 and other model variants in the Liberator family produced, thirteen complete examples survive today, two of which are airworthy.
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Produced in greater numbers than any other American military aircraft, the four-engine, high-wing Consolidated B-24 Liberator was the only bomber to be used in all theaters of operation. Big, ungainly, and disparaged as an underpowered, hard-to-fly "widow-maker," the "Lumbering Lib" was not fully developed when World War II broke out.
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Consolidated B-24 Liberator US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center The B-24 Liberator was a powerful symbol of US industrial might, with more than 18,000 produced by the war's end.
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By Frederick A. Johnsen This article was first published in the April 1972 Wings magazine and on the B-24/PB4Y Special Edition CD. The B-24 was no stranger to the barbed epithet. More than any other bomber of WW II, it was the target of criticism. Even its own pilots couldn't agree on its qualities, exemplalry or dubious.