The P2V-7 Neptune wass
a rarity if we considered it was a four-engined aircraft
with only two propellers!!! Fore, doors of U/C leg gave
inside access to crew; a rear ventral panel, just behind
the two stramlined lateral antennas, gave access but
first permitted fast evacuation for the observers and
people managing use of various lighting flares, colour-markers,
secondary pyrotechnic loads etc.
As seen here, Neptune reveals a design for full
efficiency at high or low speed, the wing planform being
quite attractive as so as the general fuselage section
with a relatively discrete radar antenna and
aerodynamical refinements concerning the big lot of all
kind of antennas and sensors. Even with its sting caudal
MAD magnetic dector, one find here a model of airframe
harmony which could have give, during late WWII years, a
formidable low-level medium bomber with streamlined
defensive turrets and a solid nose with 20 mm guns.
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