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Douglas XB-19

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The XB-19 project was intended to test the flight characteristics and design techniques for giant bombers. Despite advances in technology that made the XB-19 obsolete before it was completed, the Army Air Corps felt that the prototype would be useful for testing. Its construction took so long that competition for the contracts to make the XB-35 and XB-36 occurred two months before its first flight.
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The plane flew on 27 June 1941, more than three years after the construction contract was awarded.

Douglas XB-19 Construction and Destruction

Dougas XB-19 Interiors

Variants

​Douglas XB-19A

​In 1943 the Wright R-3350 engines were replaced with Allison V-3420-11 V engines to form the XB-19A
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