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My dad's latest flight took him to Chicago where he got wind of "some big twin radial with a mid set wing was sitting in the hanger over there"...he promptly ran over and sure enough, it was this fine B-26C!

He quickly sent these 2 pictures to me and called me giddy as a school boy!
Pardon the graphic nature of the nose art.....and the bald guy grinning 





Some other pictures (not from my dad)
http://vectaris.net/id654.html


Her history:
http://vectaris.net/id665.html

My dad said to get to the cockpit he had to crawl through a 30" high by 20" wide tunnel! He asked the pilot/maintainer about how loud it is at cruise, apparently those twin radials at cruise are quieter than a King Air  8-).....naturally the purr of radials is better than the whine of a turbine 

If anyone is curious about trying an Invader or its kin (like the Marketeer) out, SOH has it, this will give you a start:
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/l ... hp?catid=6

To clarify, the Marketeer is an executive version of the Invader, not to many of these conversions were made as the makers, On Mark at Van Nuys got caught up making B-26Ks for use in the Vietnam War.

You can have your King Air, Ill take a Marketeer any day!  8-)

Wow, viewable nipples on an American aircraft, no scratch that, in America

Matt

Nice set Adam...thanks for posting them...

Wow, viewable nipples on an American aircraft, no scratch that, in America

Matt

Yeah you see the look on my dad's face? Absolutely priceless!
It turns out a 50+ year old pilot acts the same way around a gorgeous airplane with gorgeous nose art as an 18yr old 

Wow, viewable nipples on an American aircraft, no scratch that, in America

Matt

Yeah you see the look on my dad's face? Absolutely priceless!
It turns out a 50+ year old pilot acts the same way around a gorgeous airplane with gorgeous nose art as an 18yr old