B-26 Flak Bait by vkoontz

Photography • Historical • posted on Apr 06, 2004

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The nose of the Martin B-26 Marauder Flak Bait in the Smithsonian NASM WW2 gallery. A quirky plane to fly it proved itself well in combat. It was practically put into production off the drawing board without proper test flights and its discrepancies showed up in combat. They were corrected "on the fly". These are the first pics I have taken with my new Olympus C-8080 8 megapixel digital camera. UPDATE: I have heard from a docent that the nose will be reattached to its body and be displayed in the Udvar-Hazy museum. No known date.

Comments (4)

UFOSIX

3:01AM | Fri, 09 April 2004

Ah histories... 'nough said :p

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korborak

6:09PM | Thu, 24 June 2004

Cool!! I have a picture somewhere of one being restored. It would be great if the window wasn't there... ;)

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UVDan

12:37PM | Sat, 22 October 2005

I love B26's and named one of my Gallery images "Flak Bait". At the time I did not know it was the actual name of a real B26. I understand that these were "hot" planes and a real handful for the student pilots. They had a saying that went something like "A plane a day in Tampa Bay". It looks like you had a real good time at the Smithsonian.

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neiwil

5:02AM | Wed, 30 July 2008

A very fait tempting name.Nice to know she'll be rebuilt and quite surprising that they kept the rest of the plane when only displaying the nose.Some enlightened people AT LAST!!.Great photo.