Talk:Douglas XTB2D Skypirate

Rating
A good Start-class article but could use some additional information - how did the design process go? Were there other configurations considered? What was the actual date of the first flight? What were the experiences of the flight-test team? Etc... - Aerobird 14:01, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

First Flight
Do we know the date of first flight? Danceswithzerglings (talk) 14:49, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Ventral .50cal Installation
I love this wierd post-war, pre-jet designs. Four-row radial, 3,000hp. Awesome. Anyway, I was just reading through this, and in the list of the armaments it states that it has 1 x .50cal in "ventral bath". Is this accurate, or some sort of typo? I know quite a lot about various weapons and machines, etc, but this is a term I have NEVER heard before. All I can think of is the ventral "dustbin"-type emplacements that some WWII bombers used as a simple alternative to a ball-turret. But that's a stretch, to say the least. Does anyone know what this means, if anything? It's gonna bug me until I find out. If it is a real word, I'd like to know it, and if it's not I'd like to change it. If you know, please email me at , and I will be eternally grateful. And there's a $1,000,000 reward for the first answer (umm...never mind that last one!) Regards to all Wikipediites. .45Colt 22:37, 16 November 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by .45Colt (talk • contribs)

New edits
Although there is not a dearth of references for this ambitious project, a new version of the article has been put in place. Comments? FWiW Bzuk (talk) 12:09, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 13:45, 29 April 2016 (UTC)