The evening paper reported that it was on its way to the scrap yard. I pulled off the highway and the B19 flew over me. In the early 1980s I was in Texas tocheck on the construction of a Hush House located on Kelly AFB and I heard this airplane and I knew that noise could only be the B19. Later I was allowed to go into the hanger but with some restrictions. The B19 was stationed at Patterson Field and was in Air Dock 2.newspapers on the base and was barred from the hanger for I remember reading that the orginally scheduled test pilot backed out as the escape hatch was too far from the front seat and Army Major the became the test pilot. The cost of the originals was very great. I have read that due to the size of the mail gear it was planned to change from the very large wheels and tires to do as done later and use multiple smaller wheels. I found on the net that the Hydromatic propellers for the B-19 were made by Hamilton Standard of Windsor Locks Conn. He took my cousin.Lorin Heath and I to see the B-19 take off for the first time as we watched from the west end of the runway. chief inspector at the Santa Monica plant. After testing was completed, the XB-19A was used as a cargo/transport aircraft until 1949 when it was scrapped.Дў x 37mm cannon, 5 x 12.7mm + 6 x 7.62mm machine-guns, 16330kg of bombs In 1943, the original radial engines were replaced by Allison V-3420 in-line engines and the aircraft was redesignated XB-19A.

The XB-19's first flight was 27 June 1941, more than 3 years after the construction contract was awarded. However, the Army Air Corps insisted the aircraft be completed for test use.

The Douglas Aircraft Company actually wanted to cancel the project because of the expense and extended construction time which made the aircraft obsolete before it ever flew. The XB-19 was essentially used as a test bed for very large bomber construction techniques and flight characteristics. The Douglas XB-19 was originally designated XBLR-2 (eXperimental Bomber Long-Range 2) and was the largest bomber built for the Army up to that time (1938).

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