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Originally Posted by KNS
There is a real one (flyable too) sitting at Casa Grande airport, AZ.
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Several Privateers were used as fire-fighting waterbombers until a few years ago.
Metal fatigue reared it's ugly head on one and just as it dropped it's load, both wings just folded up. All on board were lost.
I wondered if it was totally the fault of fatigue.
The B-24 was famous for having the wings just fold up with very slight damage (unlike the B-17; a tank).