Flight of A-29s

[Nathan]

I got this photo off ebay the other day. Shows a flight of A-29 Hudson bombers.

Enjoy,
Nathan

[Steve Nelson]

Not to be nit-picky, but those appear to be B-34 Venturas (or whatever the USAAF called the Ventura.)

Nice pic, though..pretty smooth formation work. Thanks for posting! I'd love to see a Ventura in the air. I think the classic elipitcal Lockheed tails are much better looking than the PV-2 barn door verticals.


SN

[TonyM]

Not to be nit-picky, but those appear to be B-34 Venturas (or whatever the USAAF called the Ventura.)

Nice pic, though..pretty smooth formation work. Thanks for posting! I'd love to see a Ventura in the air. I think the classic elipitcal Lockheed tails are much better looking than the PV-2 barn door verticals.


SN

Yep, B-34s. The scoops under the nacelles and the hump in after ventral fuselage forward of the horizontal stabilizer give it away.
A photograph of the same aircraft at about the same angle but from a little farther away can be found on page 308 of
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR II
(Aerospace Publishing LTD 2004).
TonyM.

[TonyM]

Not to be nit-picky, but those appear to be B-34 Venturas (or whatever the USAAF called the Ventura.)

Nice pic, though..pretty smooth formation work. Thanks for posting! I'd love to see a Ventura in the air. I think the classic elipitcal Lockheed tails are much better looking than the PV-2 barn door verticals.


SN

Some Lockheed-Vega B-34 airplanes are referred to as:

R-Model 37
R-37
RM-37
B-37

These designations refer to an AAF version of the Ventura II Model 37-27-01 (an RAF export version of the B-34). These aircraft were modified to AAF standards and equipped with Pratt & Whitney R-2800-31 engines. All of the R-37 types used by the USAAF had RAF ID designators (ie: AJ-183).

TonyM.

[Steve Nelson]

Thanks for the info!

I knew the main difference between the B-34 and B-37 was the engines (one had R-2800s and the other R-2600s) but couldn't remember which was which.

SN

[Nathan]

Thanks all. I noted they were not A-29's yesterday.

[TonyM]

Here is another post with those B-34 airplanes. On second look,

It appears that the original photo that appeared in this post is gone.

TonyM.

[Nathan]

yep...my photobucket is messed up sorry.

The pic is of a B-10B of the 44th recon squadron Canal Zone.

[Steve Nelson]

Still a cool pic..I love the B-10. Keep 'em coming!

SN