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Old March 10th 16, 07:16 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
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Old March 11th 16, 09:36 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
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What is this? The images have two different designations - is this a
variant of the Douglas Skypirate?
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"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.


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Old March 12th 16, 08:18 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
.. .

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.


Thanks! New one for me...
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Old March 12th 16, 11:27 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.
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Old March 12th 16, 06:29 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
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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.


The Navy was looking for a new two-seat dive bomber to replace both the
Douglas SBD Dauntless and the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, but by the end of the
war only 28 (plus two prototypes) had been built. Douglas was soon designing
a single-seat BT2D that became the A-1 Skyraider.

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


When I was a USAF radio operator on Guam, I worked a few EB-66s.

 




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