For the first time on a large aircraft a retractable tricycle-type landing gear was introduced. The aim of the design team was to achieve better load/range performance than that of the B-17, the basis of the design being a wide-span narrow-chord cantilever wing, mounted high on a deep-section fuselage.Ĭonstruction was conventional all-metal, but there were several innovations in addition to the new wing.
When in 1939 Consolidated Aircraft Corporation began design of a bomber aircraft intended to be superior to the Boeing B-17, the company could never have imagined that more than 18,000 of these aircraft would be built (as the B-24A to -M for the USAAF and Liberator I to IX for RAF Coastal Command and Bomber Command). Virtual Aircraft Museum / USA / Consolidated
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