The Flying Prostitute- Monogram B-26 Marauder WIP

Good luck with the build Hans.  Keep us posted as you progress.

Regards,  Rick

You forgot the training school in Florida "One a day in Tampa Bay". That was before Jimmy Doolittle came down to investigate the complaints about the aircraft. At that time Doolittle had not flown a B-26. He requested a plane to be brought out for his testing with a co-pilot from the training squadron. The whole baase was lined up along the runway. After getting familiar with the instruments he took it off, reached 500 ft, shut off one engine and rolled the aircraft, came back around and landed the aircraft. His comment on landing was that he found no problem with the aircraft. Besides being a "pilot's pilot" he was an engineer, I believe his first degree was as a mining engineer from UC Berkeley, then he was loaned to NACA (NASA's predecessor) during the 1930's and was in the intitial group to receive a PhD in aeronautical engineering from MIT. He knew planes inside and out.

Flak Bait's nose section is displayed at the Smithsonian. It was the bomber that had the most missions flown. B-26's seemed to dominate that list. LBJ's silver star (probably a political award) was given while he served with a B-26 unit in the Pacific.

Mike T.

This will be fun to follow, Hammer.  Though, it's tinged with a little disappointment-I was hoping you might try bashing it back to a B-26 from the early blocks, before the wings were lengthened and the rudder enlarged.  I have one that I'll be modifying like that, for my Battle of Midway collection, and I'd like to see someone else do it first.

"You jump in!"  "No, you jump in first!"  "I'm not gonna go first!"

Seriously, it is a great kit and I'm looking forward to seeing your build in progress!

Love that plane.. I built it as a kid..

got 1 or 2 in my stash.. somewhere...!