Curtiss C-46 Commando

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as Curtiss C-46D Commando 44-78018 (c/n 33414), the aircraft displayed in the World War II Gallery of the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio: a twin-engined military transport with a deep ‘double-bubble’ fuselage, two Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp radials driving four-bladed Curtiss Electric propellers, a low wing spanning 32.9 m, a single fin and rudder and a tailwheel undercarriage, shown tail down on its wheels with the cargo door closed: olive drab upper surfaces over neutral grey with a scalloped dividing line, black de-icing boots on the outer wing and tailplane leading edges, the blue-and-white star and bar on both sides of the rear fuselage, above the port wing and below the starboard wing, ‘018’ and ‘478018’ in yellow on the fin, and black propeller blades with yellow tips (shape from Curtiss and Bureau of Aeronautics three-views scaled to the published span and length, checked against photographs of this aircraft). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 350 models · download .glb (1.7 MB) · Plate 148 in The Hangar