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This is the type of plane they were "pulling a 40 hr on," in an earlier photo.
Kind of hard to see, but this plane has a pronounced GULL wing.
The guy labeled everything really well.
I really think you are on something close to a national treasure, flogger.
That's like a bubble cockpit. Something you would find from an early underwater explorer/submarine. But here it is on an Airplane.
Very cool.
Last edited by arbol; 03-30-2021 at 19:19.
That could be a nose gun turret, like they had on the B-24 PB4Y variants for the Navy.
You have a point.
Other pictures look like the pilot has a cockpit on top of the fuselage, and the description of the plane includes: along with an enclosed nose turret
Oh, you're right! Didn't even think about it, I just assumed it had a traditional cockpit glass layout.
As cool as it is, given the technology of the time, that is one ugly airplane. Eye of the beholder I guess.
Wiki says it was the first of it's kind in many fields and made just about every other bomber obsolete. So yeah, ugly, but revolutionary.
The B-10 began a revolution in bomber design. Its all-metal monoplane airframe, along with its features of closed cockpits, rotating gun turrets (almost simultaneously with the 1933 British Boulton & Paul Overstrand biplane bomber's own enclosed nose-turret), retractable landing gear, internal bomb bay, and full engine cowlings, would become the standard for bomber designs worldwide for decades.
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