BATTLEPLANE "B-19"
LARGEST IN WORLD STATISTICS TELL STORY Statistics on B-19, the world's biggest bomber, which was flown for the first time in California late in June, are summarised as follows: Cost: 3.500,000 dollars. Insurance: 1,900000 dollars. Premiums: 82.000 dollars first minute; 3000 dollars for each succeeding test hour. Wingspread: 212*661. Fuselage. 132 feet. Height: 42 feet to rudder top. Weight: Capacity 82 tons; empty, 41 tons. Bomb load: 18 tons. Top speed: 210 m.p.h. Cruising: 186 m.p.h. Landing: 69 m.p.h. Range: 7500 miles. Ceiling: 22,000 foe". Power: Four 2000 li.p. Wright Duplex Cyclone engines.
Fuel: 11,000 gallons maximum. Normal crew: 10; sleeps eight. Incidentals: Construction time, four years from drawing board to first hop, involving 500 engineers, 9000 drawings, 2,000,000 man-hours 10 miles electric conduits, two miles control cables, four radio sending and receiving sets, 24 station telephone system and oxygen equipment to sustain 10-man crew 100 hours at 20,000 feet; complete fire alarm system.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 181, 2 August 1941, Page 5
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