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From: "Scott M. Kozel"
Date: Friday, March 07, 2008 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: Were the B-25's too lightly armored?
From: "Scott M. Kozel"
Date: Friday, March 07, 2008 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: Were the B-25's too lightly armored?
Cubdriver
>
> Bill Shatzer
>
> >I had thought both the B-25 and the B-26 arose from the same 1939 USAAF
> >specification and request for proposals and thus the two designs were
> >roughly contemporaneous.
>
> Yes, the U.S. Army often twinned its RFPs, realizing that aircraft
> design in the 1930s/1940s was an imprecise art, and that one of the
> planes might not pan out. Thus the B-25/26, B-35/36 etc.
Also the B-29 and the B-32.
