Bitzer project

[FlyTexas]

Hi Mike, I've found a couple but the I can't find one that ticks all the boxes in the diagram. I'm at a loss tbh.

How about if I tell everyone that it's an American WWII TRAINER. Does that help?
That's two clues, so down to silver badges from here on.

And I thought it was French.

Brian

[TSR2]

I'm still at a loss as the engines don't marry up (which is what threw me at the start).

[Paul K]

And I thought it was French.

I thought that too - something Breguet maybe - but the power-operated turret doesn't fit with post-WW2 new designs. Mike's hint of a USA trainer has still left me clueless. There is a hint of De Havilland about it, I reckon.

[FlyTexas]

Got it...finally!

Brian

[Airspeed]

After I posted the multi-clue, I typed in American WWII trainer planes, and was shown a list of maybe 20 to choose from. I expected to see a heap of messages today, but there were only two more correct answers.
Diamond badges to:
Keith (Dev One), Mick (woody901), Pete (MilesMan)
for getting the Fairchild AT-21 Gunner first shot.
Not much work pinning these on....

Joe (blanston12) and Den (511Flyer) score silver....

Full 3-view in a few minutes, tick tick...

[Paul K]

After the hint, I also searched for 'twin-engined American training aircraft of WW2' and not one mention or picture of that aircraft came up. So much for Google being all powerful and spying on us.

[Dev One]

Funny, but thats how I found it!
Keith

[FlyTexas]

I finally found it by searching for the engine manufacturer. Being that most US engines during the war were radials, not inline engines, I assumed this aircraft was powered by Ranger engines.

Brian

[Paul K]

Funny, but thats how I found it!
Keith

We must have different algorithms then.

[blanston12]

The US Training aircraft hint is the one that got me in the right direction, looking at a list of US training aircraft on wikipedia found it. Before that I thought it was a modified Hudson and was looking for either a modified one with either Allison or Merlin engine or someone who made a copy of it, which lead nowhere. The Ranger engine was not something I knew much about, probably because it was a failure and not used much so was not much help.