Warbird Information Exchange

Neat video of the Glenn martin plant and building Marauders and Baltimores.
Jerry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXzhAbd5 ... re=related

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No Martin Baltimores here they are Australian built DAP Beaufort bombers. Around 700 built here for the RAAF..

Looks like Curtiss was a little behind on propeller delivery judging from that storage area......

Curtiss WAS behind. They flew aircraft from Middle River to the USAAF for acceptance, removed the propellers, then shipped them home to be re-mounted on other aircraft awaiting delivery.

The hangars in the first scenes where they are pulling aircraft out are still standing and being used at KMTN. They have bottom floors with poured-concrete supports 3 feet in diameter. The Martin Museum is in one of the basement rooms.

Maytag built all the hydraulics for the Marauder, the A-30 and A-22. I have cowl flap, landing gear, flap and other actuators off of B-26, and a tail wheel steering dampener off an A-30- all Maytag.

DeSoto built the forward fuselage on the Marauder. I just received a flyer from a Detroit airshow in 1944 where Chrysler displayed their war contributions, including Marauder's.

Thanks for the link.

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Talk about war effort, poet Carl Sandbeg wrote the narrative for this-

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Yep, for the B-26 part...sounded like Raymond Massey narrating that part as well.

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I liked the rivet sorting machine. If you have ever dropped a tray of trivets of different sizes you would really want one of those. I wonder if they are still used?

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