Photographs and brief description of second of series of heavy land based patrol bombers produced for U S Navy by Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp; PB4Y-2 is cantilever wing monoplane with improved Pratt and Whitney twin Wasp engines, semi-monocoque fuselage, single rudder tail assembly, retractable tricycle landing gear, and 12 machine guns; gross weight 62,000 to 65,000 lb; max speed 250 mph. (See also Aero Digest v 48 n 4 Feb 15 1945 p 86, 102; Flight v 47 n 1893 Apr 5 1945 p 364-5)
"Privateer" PB4Y-2
Western Flying
Western Flying ; 25 , n 3
1945
Article (Journal)
English
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