beech 18 torpedo bomber

Deffo not a Beech – the fins are wrong ona Beech Model 18 the horizontal stab does not extend past the fin/rudder-

BTW – AT11s didnt carry torpedoes only small practice bombs and sometimes a Crocker-Wheeler turret for gunnery training…

TT

Part Beech Owner!

Hey its got a twin tail and 2 round motors!

They back of the pic says beech.I see twin tail and two round motors who am I to disagree t?Looks Beech to me but then again,maybe not I’m no expert on Beech products(obviously) and neither was the picture framer 60+ yrs ago.Thanks for setting me straight

If anyone is still in doubt, check the available payload of the Beech 18 after it has fuel and then check the weight of a Torpedo (generally v. heavy)

If they don’t match then it didn’t happen.

MH

You can spray paint COW on the backside of a MOOSE but it’s still a cow. It’s easily verified, if a few other people look at it and say “ya know…..I’m pretty sure that’s a moose”.

hey, what do I know?

I guess not much

so I’m guessing its a Beech.

Tim
it’s a free country (both here and where you are).
So we’ll agree to differ. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Happy New Year
Andy

(Still a Ventura though 🙂 😉 😉 🙂 🙂 )

picture says “Beech” on backside

so I’m guessing its a Beech.

http://community.webshots.com/user/mrromero

heres the link to my poor quality photo. Tim

I still think it’s a Lockheed PV-1 Ventura.

Agree, One-hundred percent.

You two beat me to it.
I’m not sure the Ventura ever launched torpedoes though.
There was a short air-launched torpedo used by the US Navy. I’ll have a look in my references in the morning and see if it was ever carried by PV-1’s.

Cheers
Andy

Me too!

Looks more like a Lockheed Ventura or Harpoon to me :confused:

Agree, One-hundred percent.

Looks more like a Lockheed Ventura or Harpoon to me :confused:

beech photo

heres a photo of the beech torpedo bomber sorry about poor quality

Here it is…

Here’s the XA-38…

If you think it’s crazy, beech even produced drawings of a Model 17 Staggerwing-based ground attack aircraft.

XA-38

They did make 2 prototypes of an oversize Model 18 called the XA-38 Grizzly Beech Model 28…Beech says it was not based on the 18). It was twin-tailled and powered by a pair of Wright 3350s (2300 hp). It would have been armed with a 75 mm cannon with torpedoes as an alternate weapon.

Basically, it looks like a narrow B-25.

I am really blowing it today I have downloaded a pic of the torpedo bomber but I cant figure out how to link it so the best I can do is go to
Webshots.com and then my username is mrromero look in beech photo album.sorry

A86
Look in your Private Mesages.
I’ve sent you some info that might help.
Cheers
Andy

Beech 18 photo

I am really blowing it today I have downloaded a pic of the torpedo bomber but I cant figure out how to link it so the best I can do is go to
Webshots.com and then my username is mrromero look in beech photo album.sorry

Beech torpedo bomber picture

why cant i attach a photo?what am I doing wrong? Help!I’m computer challenged.

Yep thats an AT-11 must have been a very small torpedo! Think we need to see the pic agent86. Only thing I can think of is it might be a lockheed 14, but even with those they were not torpedo equiped???

The AT-11 version was a bomber trainer version with a transparant nose. Thought they were used by the USAAF purely to drup small dummy bombs, there can’t be much clearance for a torpedo below the aircraft???? :confused:

Might be the wrong sort, not upto speed on the ’18, but I took these at Oshkosh this year and there aint much ground clearance under the fuselage….unless they hung one under wing root ?

The AT-11 version was a bomber trainer version with a transparant nose. Thought they were used by the USAAF purely to drup small dummy bombs, there can’t be much clearance for a torpedo below the aircraft???? :confused: