Talk:A-26 Invader

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[edit] Attack bomber

Official U.S. Air Force aviation display sign for a
Douglas B-26C (A-26C) "Invader" located on Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas (March 2007).

Not familiar with this term: I assume it's yet another synonym for ground attack aircraft (especially given the A- designation). Was it the contemporary description? Alai 05:35, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

I believe it's a means of indicating that the aircraft started out as an attack aircraft (A-26), was redesignated as a bomber (B-26 - yes, the same designation as the earlier B-26 Marauder!) in 1948, and then redesignated back to an attack aircraft (from B-26K to A-26A) in 1962. Aerobird 02:12, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Ah... wouldn't have guessed that in a hurry. :) If this can be confirmed, it might be worth saying so more explicitly, then. The current terminology isn't clear, especially when it doesn't resolve to one link, but two separate ones. Alai 05:22, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

We were not allowed to fly bombers out of Thailand. Therefore the A designation replaced the B. My dad was crew chief on one of the first planes that landed at NKP. It also happens to be the plane that is at Wright-Pat.

[edit] Number of Machine Guns

>Six 12.7 mm machine guns & Two 12.7 mm machine guns<

What is meant by this? 6 in the nose and 2 in the wings? Was there a dorsal turret? I nthink this could do with clarification, unfortunately I'm not the guy to do it. Epeeist smudge 12:49, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rating

This is a patheticlly short and uninformative article for such an important aircraft. No commentary on the change from A-26 to B-26 then back to A-26, just the designations without so much as a peep? This aircraft served in three major wars and deserves far more attention. In fact, I'm going to reccomend it for AID. - Aerobird 15:24, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I say go for it! Much luck! --Signaleer 16:27, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image Gallery

Douglas A-26B

Side view Douglas B-26C (A-26C) "Invader"

Painted nose section of a Douglas B-26C(A-26) "Invader" (March 2007)

For some reason, the image gallery for this particular aircraft continues to be removed. Anyhow, instead of getting into an edit war, I've placed the gallery into the discussion section.
v/r
Chitrapa 16:56, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

• This reason is explained in Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Aircraft/page_content#Photo_sections. Piotr Mikołajski 17:01, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Note that:"There is no official policy" as a guideline to inclusion of image galleries. If the images do not overwhelm the article, there can be a case for keeping them in place unless they are already found in the Wikipedia Commons which in itself can act as an image gallery. Bzuk 18:15, 24 April 2007 (UTC).

Piotr
Honestly, while the page is not "overwhelmed" w/ images, it'd look a heck of a lot better w/ an image gallery. Anyhow, you still haven't answered the question. I looked at the link (twice) and it does not explain your actions. Chitrapa 01:35, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

I need to document this - At the start of Specifications, I've changed A-26B-60-DL to A-26B-15-DL, because all the characteristics and performance numbers apply to that version. The A-26B-15-DL used R2800-27 engines, 6-gun nose, framed "flat top" canopy, etc. PeterWD (talk) 19:10, 29 February 2008 (UTC)