B-32 Dominator ! Patreon only Preview Video
It's about half of the video and sort of a rough draft, but I though it would be worth putting up so you can see where this is going. It's add free of course. At the moment it's processing on youtube, but should be up in full resolution about 30 mins from the time of this post
Let me know what you think. Stuff you want included in the full version or things you want me to elaborate on more etc. NOTE, the drive with the manuals has not yet been updated, I'll have that done when the full version of the video comes out.
Greg
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I think if I were on the War Production Board I think I would have preferred the backup plan for the B-29 use the R-2600 or R-2800 .
In the comments of the 32 video is a note about article on error propagation by Kevin, really interesting on the magnesium used in the supercharger housing on the W 3350 would burn, not the steel crankcase. Makes sense, there is no way to have a fire inside the engine crank hot enough to burn mag. https://www.cycleworld.com/story/blogs/ask-kevin/error-propagation-explained/ Greg, you could do an engine video on some of these 'truths' that are false, with each plane you cover/correct per plane. Could do a video on an engine and it's truths. Just learned truth about the McDonald XP 67, moonbat, turns out the 'engine cooling' problems were not that they ran to hot, they ran to cool. The crash was from exhaust header breaking, had nothing to do with running hot. B 29, have never read that turning elec/gas off to burning engine would stop the fire. Assume this is from magnesium being self conflagrating until it burns out. Also don't think CO2 works on mag, might make it worse. The weight savings of not using another metal for the housing was not worth the mental fatigue on the crew as they were 60 seconds from death. At all IAS.
Thank you for this video! I must admit that I didn’t knew about the B-32s existence. A very interesting airplane, indeed. I agree with Dubsington’s comment about thousands of people spending years of their life on something that is now almost completely forgotten. Sad that not even one of them survived. I heard before of how, following the victory in Japan, brand new US airplanes were flown directly from factories to the scrap yard. I suppose they fulfilled orders the US government/military had no contractual right to cancel, and that the most economical was for the military to immediately scrap items they no longer had use for. I guess it’s also a testament to the enormous strength the US had built up. And a realization that the jet age was approaching quickly, meaning these brand new piston engines airplanes would soon be obsolete anyway. Still, it’s hard to take in. Scrap then, gold today!
Greg, thanks for another good video. From all I have read, have to push back on Davis wing being 'good.' The only praise I read for Davis is for low speed handling, understand it has a small envelope of optimum performance. Only mass produced plane with it is 24, which was a beast to fly in formation/turbulence. B29, B36, etc. all had far different airfoil. I can't do the math, could be interesting to see the performance of the 24 if it had the 29 airfoil.
It works well within a a specific speed range. At high altitudes, where the plane was meant to fly it's at a low indicated airspeed and it's quite efficient there. That's why it's faster than the B-17 up high with the same amount of power.
This makes me happy. I recall "discovering" the B-32 after I'd been reading WW2 aviation history for *years*, and being shocked that an entire heavy bomber project existed without my knowledge. There is so little written about them, and when you do see a reference it is usually just a comment about Hobo Queen's (in)famous mission at the end of the war. Amazing that history can just forget about these machines when thousands of people spent years of their lives designing/building/testing them. Really glad you're doing this vid.
Thanks Greg, Another interesting aircraft and amazing photos. Are they generally from the Library of Congress collection?
Some are, some are from the pilot's manual, some are from that magazine article. Hopefully some are examples my viewers haven't seen before.