B-24 Liberator

The Consolidated B-24 Liberator

The Liberator turned manufacturing into science with these huge machines delivered at a rate that still defies belief. At the peak, a B-24 Liberator was being finished every 100 minutes, 7 days a week! Put simply without the Liberty effort the allies must surely have lost.

One of the heaviest aircraft of the period, faster than the Fortress, similarly armed and with that raft of levers, the Liberator is a special aircraft.

With a range of 3,000 miles and ceiling of 28,000ft, the B-24 can fly above the weather from Gander to Prestwick without its contemporaries’ need to stop at Greenland or Iceland. Its tolerance of wartime overload confounded even its designers; a comforting fact for one vital Atlantic passenger – Winston Churchill.

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