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Mayhem! RAF Coastal Command Beaufighters attack a German ship with devastating force!

 

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Flight controls and weapon systems are interlocked or is there a reliance on harmony in the cockpit(s)? Joking, but curious. Looks too loaded up to be a trainer. Why the redundance, survivability?

 

[Photon440]

Pretty sure it's an alteration of this picture:

 

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someone's dream on the Twin Skyraider, based off of the P-82 Twin Mustang. The idea of this was to reduce pilot fatigue for long escort missions over Japan.

 

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The Twin Raider was proposed, never built.

 

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someone's dream on the Twin Skyraider, based off of the P-82 Twin Mustang. The idea of this was to reduce pilot fatigue for long escort missions over Japan. View attachment 1325129

Ultra long range escort fighter, one of these (an F-82B) flew from Hawaii to New York in 1947, the longest non-stop flight ever made by a prop fighter.

 

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Ultra long range escort fighter, one of these (an F-82B) flew from Hawaii to New York in 1947, the longest non-stop flight ever made by a prop fighter.

This Haw-NY plane sits in AF Museum in Dayton OH

 

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Betty Jo...currently at The US Air Force Museum at Wright Patt.

 

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