Why they didn't just put the engines back-to-back, run 4 Props, 2 in front of the wing, 2 behind, and put this critter on Tricycle Landing gear? Wing-root in-take radiators could have cooled the 'pusher' engines, and Torque from the Props easily eliminated! Oh, wait, Dornier wasn't involved, and Ego interfered. Very German, that...

The PBY Privateer and the last bunch of B-24's also had the Tall-Single-Tail. What wasn't Known Then (and plagued even the P-38/P-61/XF-11/C-119) was that in banked turns, twin-boom planes experienced 'prop-wash' that made the Yaw authority 'Iffy', but it Also did THAT to B-24's in Level flight (Lancasters, too, & why the Manchester had 3 fins in it's tail), So, a Single 'shark-fin' cut into cleaner air, while causing more drag, but lesser handling issues.

Ever since playing the computer game Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain I've had an odd interest in the bf-110 and the do-17. The BF 110 in the game was really cool because not only was it a fighter but it had a variant that could also carry bombs.

This thing had more bugs than the Amazon rainforest.

Good video! Thanks!

1:35 why a range of 5,333 mi? that seems like a really odd number. Even when converted to kilometers it's not a round number.

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Thanks, Warbirds.

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I subscribed to your excellent channel. I'd read about these planes before, but you provided me with a condensed refresher. Thank you.

The B-32 was plan B if Boeing couldn't get the B-29 work.

Too choppy oa presentation

I think it's interesting how the B-32 looks similar to the Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer (an offshoot of the B-24) especially the tail.

My father was Navy brought on land to oversee the removal of all Japanese propellers and arms.

My Grandfather worked on pretty much all Convair bombers but mostly B24 and B36. He was a supervisor.

The war ended in 1945. This video states that it was 1944.

The B-32 may have had its problems but it sure looked bad ass in the frontal view. Too bad some could not have been saved. I would sure like to see one fly by.

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Sad they didn't keep at least one. That automatic gun turret system is pretty sweet, and for what they were doing aerial reconnaissance they were able to take out IJAF airplanes was pretty incredible. You do have to realize that by war's end that the combat experience those Japanese pilots had were young inexperienced.

THEY SHOULD HAVE LEFT AT LEAST ONE DOMINATOR FOR A MUSEUM!!!!! WHAT A SHAMEFUL LOSS!!!!!

Given that this video covers several Consolidated aircraft from WWII and the Pacific, you may find the following information interesting. Eighteen months ago I visited the Flying Boat Museum at Lake Boga near Swan Hill in Victoria, Australia. It was built as the Top Secret Flying Boat Maintenance and Repair Facility for the Australian Theatre of Operations and was far enough inland to be safe from Japanese Carrier borne aircraft attack. They have a Frankenstein PBY Catalina hung from the ceiling. The aircraft was rebuilt from the parts of several scrapped Cats. One of several displays are several aero engines, the one that powered the Catalina and then in another corner is the engine used in the B-29 and B-32, and it absolutely dwarfs the Catalina engine in size and complexity. If any of your viewers are visiting Australia and travelling along the Murray River, then 'do yourself a favour' and take a day trip to the Flying Boat Museum at Lake Boga. Excellent place for a picnic around the lake and there is accommodation available, even a caravan park. Swan Hill is just up the road if you need bigger supplies or support facilities. Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺😮

I could tell it wasn't pressurized by the size of the windows over the cockpit. That means the crew inside running heaters trying to stay warm, on oxygen masks during most of the fight. Just a bigger version of the B-17 or B-24. Pressurization puts hte B-29 several levels above that thing.

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The Australian Beauforts had Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp engines because we didn’t manufacture Bristol Taurus engines here. We eventually built Beaufighters here too but I think we sourced the Hercules from the UK. The Beaufighter was known for being fast and with tremendous firepower. It was used extremely effectively at the Battle of the Bismarck Sea in 1943. As a result of some clever subterfuge, the Japanese mistook them for Beauforts and lined their ships up straight ahead, presenting the Beaufighter pilots with a perfect strafing target. Firing with everything they had, the Beaufighters completely wiped out the bridge of pretty much every ship they attacked, almost totally decapitating the fleet and starting fires everywhere. The American crews, watching from overhead, could not believe what they were seeing. Australian crews were known for radio discipline but the Americans provided commentary for anyone who could hear, with outbursts like, ‘Look at those Beaufighter sons of b!tches!’ Converted American B-25 Mitchells went in next, using skip bombing from side on and finished off most of the Japanese fleet. I have sat in a Beaufighter cockpit at the Moorabbin museum in Melbourne. The pilot had a remarkable forward view. They used to run one of the engines occasionally but the aircraft was not airworthy. FWIW, I think the name ‘Whispering Death’ is something of a myth.

The engines were problematic for both the B-32 and the B-29.

I know where there is an intact example of the B-32. In my model display case! 😁

Your "imperial units" are ridiculous and outdated. Please use km (kilometers), and km/h (kilometers per hour).

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I've always had a question about the B-32 in relation to the B-29 which has never been answered. I've raised the question on several websites that have told the story of the development of the B-29 and how the B-29 program was the most expensive wartime program of the US, and no one has ever had a good answer to the question. The question is, that if the B-29 program was the most expensive wartime program, how expensive was the B-32 program? Was the quoted cost of the B-29 program really the cost of both planes, since both contracts were signed at the same time to produce a long-range bomber? If so, that would explain why the "B-29" program was so expensive since the program really covered the cost of two airplane designs. On the other hand, if the very expensive cost of the B-29 program was just the cost of developing the B-29 and not both planes, then what was the cost of developing the B-32? That cost must have been equally expensive. I've tried to find the cost of the B-32, but there don't seem to be any records available. As you have said, the B-32 seems to be the forgotten bomber. If anyone has an answer, I'd be interested to read it. Thanks.

It would have really been something if the one with the final air fatality had been preserved, trust govt to shoot history in the foot.

They should have kept one for Wright Patt

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Had the Pacific War gone on into 1946, it's hard to think that there wouldn't have been *some* appreciable role for the B-32. It could not have supplanted the B-29 - it was never quite as good a platform - but given more flight hours, I have to think they could have ironed out the bugs, and made a very serviceable long range heavy bomber out of it.

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Can't see how that protection was seen as adequate, as it's less than a B-17 and a much bigger target. B-17s weren't all that hard to shoot down, either.

The infamous Last Mission of the B-32 was flown on Aug. 18th 1945, not Aug. 18th 1944.

The sole remaining artifact of the B-32 program is a wing. It is located at Montgomery-Waller Community Park in South San Diego. This is on the hill from which John Montgomery claims he achieved flight though he reportedly shot at anyone who came to watch. Anyway the wing is viewable on googlemaps.

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A wing of a B-32 remains at a City of San Diego Park in the Otay Mesa West neighborhood, specifically at the Montgomery-Waller Community Park.

Minor but significant error in detail: the bomb load specified was 20,000#, not 2,000 as displayed and stated in the video.

I have always wondered what would happen to a plane that was pressurized after being hit with 20mm cannon shells.

That's pretty wild. I had never even heard of that aircraft type before, let alone known that they were flown in the war. It's amazing to think that they were only about a decade apart in design from the B-52, which is still on full operational duty today, well into the 21st century.

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Very nicely done. Thank you!

Very Good and informative video

B-32 was too little too late - no significant quantity ever saw usage before the end of the war, since it didn't even START to arrive at front-line units 'til May 1945.

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I don't know if it's still online, but there used to be an A-1 Skyraider pilot's memoir on a website, in which he detailed the start procedure of the Wright R-3350 (same engine as the B-29, but he only had one). Something like "leave the magnetos and fuel off, bump the electric starter until you count sixteen blades [four turns of the engine with a four-blade prop] to get the oil out, then turn on all the fuel pumps and spark and lean on the start switch until it shoots fire out the exhausts."

It wasn't the plane, so much as the Parts! Quality Control was a sketchy business back then. My lot goes in for the 'B-32 DeNile🤔'.

I am not sure they were all scrapped. I live in Colorado and near to an airport that has slurry bombers based there at times. I saw a plane that I recognized as a B24, but had a single vertical tail. I asked a friend who was an ATC at that airport about thie plane and he told me it was a " Dominator". He was an F-4 Phantom pilot and is very well versed in WWII planes. I saw this plane many times that summer and I am pretty sure it was the B-32.