Can you identify this plane?

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Can you identify this plane?

Postby m94x » Sun Dec 29, 2013 2:25 pm

I've showed these photos around a little but can't match the plane definitively to a known aircraft although it really appears to be a representative model. Tom thinks it most closely resembles a DO-19 and that's as close as we can get, but if anyone out there knows better, I'm curious to know.
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Re: Can you identify this plane?

Postby m94x » Sun Dec 29, 2013 2:28 pm

Same plane from above....
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Re: Can you identify this plane?

Postby Epap » Tue Dec 31, 2013 9:24 pm

It resembles the Japanese G5N Shinzan as to its main cabin and the angled wings, though why anyone would immortalize this failed experimental bomber in this manner is a mystery to me.
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Re: Can you identify this plane?

Postby A30yoyo » Wed Jan 01, 2014 11:05 pm

Yes...When I saw the engraved cockpit frames, I thought Japanese...the 4 Shinzans built were apparently put to use as Navy transports which perhaps explains the side windows...the vertical tails seem a little fictitious. The Shinzan was supposed to be influenced by the 'DC-4E' sold to the Japanese ( and the model has wing planform and and outwards cant of the engines like the 'DC-4E' ) Can't find any reference to any Douglas bomber project using the DC-4E wing in Francillon's McDD Putnam or 'Douglas Propliners' though you'd expect them to play around with such sketches. The XB-19 was much bigger
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