UK2 AL504 Consolidated LiberatorMkI 1944 Northolt JDOughtonColl.jpg

[Joseph Testagrose]

[Orval Fairbairn]

In article >,
Joseph Testagrose > wrote:

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> [Image]
>
> end

"Commando" was Winston Churchill's personal airplane.

[Milton Lewis]

Orval Fairbairn wrote:
> In article >,
> Joseph Testagrose > wrote:
>
>> begin 644 UK2 AL504 Consolidated LiberatorMkI 1944 Northolt JDOughtonColl.jpg
>> [Image]
>>
>> end
>
> "Commando" was Winston Churchill's personal airplane.
Didn't the Brits make any distinction between the Liberator and the
Privateer? This is clearly a Privateer.

[Andrew Chaplin]

Milton Lewis > wrote in
m:

> Orval Fairbairn wrote:
>> In article >,
>> Joseph Testagrose > wrote:
>>
>>> begin 644 UK2 AL504 Consolidated LiberatorMkI 1944 Northolt
>>> JDOughtonColl.jpg [Image]
>>
>> "Commando" was Winston Churchill's personal airplane.
>
> Didn't the Brits make any distinction between the Liberator and the
> Privateer? This is clearly a Privateer.

As built, Commando had dual vertical stabilizers. It went back to the
factory sometime in September '43 and re-emerged in November with the
single vertical stabilizer.
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Andrew Chaplin
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[joet5]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 06:52:38 -0500, Milton Lewis
> wrote:

>Orval Fairbairn wrote:
>> In article >,
>> Joseph Testagrose > wrote:
>>
>>> begin 644 UK2 AL504 Consolidated LiberatorMkI 1944 Northolt JDOughtonColl.jpg
>>> [Image]
>>>
>>> end
>>
>> "Commando" was Winston Churchill's personal airplane.
>Didn't the Brits make any distinction between the Liberator and the
>Privateer? This is clearly a Privateer.
No.

[Orval Fairbairn]

In article >,
joet5 <joet5atoptonline.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 06:52:38 -0500, Milton Lewis
> > wrote:
>
> >Orval Fairbairn wrote:
> >> In article >,
> >> Joseph Testagrose > wrote:
> >>
> >>> begin 644 UK2 AL504 Consolidated LiberatorMkI 1944 Northolt
> >>> JDOughtonColl.jpg
> >>> [Image]
> >>>
> >>> end
> >>
> >> "Commando" was Winston Churchill's personal airplane.
> >Didn't the Brits make any distinction between the Liberator and the
> >Privateer? This is clearly a Privateer.
> No.

According to "American Combat Planes," The single tail was approved in
April 1944 for all future Liberators, but of 5176 single-tailed B-24Ns
ordered from Ford, only November 1944's XB-24N and seven YB-24s of
May-June 1945 were completed. These ships had R-1830-75 Wasps and new
nose and tail turrets."

Re the PB4Y-2 single-tail Privateer:

"Delivery began in March 1944 and 710 more Privateers were ordered on
October 19. Cancellations, however, ended PB4Y-2 production in October
1945 after 740 were completed."

Wsa "Commando" a Privateer or a Liberator or a modified hybrid? I am
sure that AAF and Navy versions had some equipment differences, as did
the British versions.