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Old March 12th 16, 10:27 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
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On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 15:10:26 -0600, "Byker" wrote:

"Bob (not my real pseudonym)" wrote in message
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What is this? The images have two different designations - is this a
variant of the Douglas Skypirate?


It's a mixed-power version of the Douglas BTD Destroyer, a dive bomber
developed for the Navy during WWII.


I think your picture is an XSB2 Destroyer. The BTD-1 destroyer doesn't
have the chunk missing out of the rudder fairing. As of August 2007,
there was a BTD-1 in the restoration hanger at the Wings of Eagles
museum in Elmira, NY, per the attachment.

BTW: Douglas resurrected the Destroyer name for its B-66.