If you happen to be a subscriber to Kit Planes, you’ll notice the Durand Mark V sporting the cover spot.
Not necessarily a remarkable design by today’s standards but there is a background story.
The designer, Bill Durand, was a architect going into WWII. His major contributions consisted drawing up blueprints at the Martin Bomber plant just south of Omaha in Bellevue, NE.
That is now Offutt Air Base/StratCom.
One day they came to Bill and asked him to draw up a new bomb release system for the B-29 they were currently building.
Bill finished the project and picked up his belongings and left for good saying they would no longer need his services.
That bomb release was for the Enola Gay.
Bill started EAA Chapter 80 of which I am a member.
Sometimes you really have no Idea of who you’re rubbing elbows with.
T Mann
Not necessarily a remarkable design by today’s standards but there is a background story.
The designer, Bill Durand, was a architect going into WWII. His major contributions consisted drawing up blueprints at the Martin Bomber plant just south of Omaha in Bellevue, NE.
That is now Offutt Air Base/StratCom.
One day they came to Bill and asked him to draw up a new bomb release system for the B-29 they were currently building.
Bill finished the project and picked up his belongings and left for good saying they would no longer need his services.
That bomb release was for the Enola Gay.
Bill started EAA Chapter 80 of which I am a member.
Sometimes you really have no Idea of who you’re rubbing elbows with.
T Mann