On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 15:10:26 -0600, "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote:
>"Bob (not my real pseudonym)" wrote in message
>news:sp05ebpjt2v8d3kgkiap3skru9urerkcqt@4ax.com...
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>> What is this? The images have two different designations - is this a
>> variant of the Douglas Skypirate?
>
>It's a mixed-power version of the Douglas BTD Destroyer, a dive bomber
>developed for the Navy during WWII.
I think your picture is an XSB2 Destroyer. The BTD-1 destroyer doesn't
have the chunk missing out of the rudder fairing. As of August 2007,
there was a BTD-1 in the restoration hanger at the Wings of Eagles
museum in Elmira, NY, per the attachment.
BTW: Douglas resurrected the Destroyer name for its B-66.
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