Lockheed P2V Neptune

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as Lockheed P2V-1 Neptune BuNo 89082, ‘The Truculent Turtle’, which flew 11,235 miles from Perth, Australia, to Columbus, Ohio, without refuelling in 1946 and is displayed at the National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, Florida: the US Navy’s twin-engined long-range patrol bomber with two Wright R-3350 radials, a high-aspect-ratio shoulder wing, tall single fin and tricycle gear, stripped of its turrets for the record flight with a streamlined metal nose: overall gloss sea blue, a thin red stripe round the forward fuselage, ‘The Turtle’ nose art of a pipe-smoking turtle pedalling a propeller, 1943–47 star-and-bar insignia on the rear fuselage and small white ‘NAVY’ and ‘89082’ on the fin, as photographed at Pensacola (no P2V-1 is preserved in a UK museum; shape from the US Navy Bureau of Aeronautics drawing of the P2V-4 checked against photographs of the airframe). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 317 models · download .glb (1.3 MB) · Plate 169 in The Hangar