AS12-56B-8314 shows the footprint of some rather large hominid on the moon.

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Here's a hilarious story that appeared in an American supermarket tabloid some years ago.

Furthermore, the plane they put in the picture is a Douglas B 19, an experimental WWII long-range bomber of which a few were made. None were used in combat and thus all were accounted for!

Also the crater has to be many kilometers long. (The B 19 had a large wingspan - but not that large!)

This story resurfaces from time to time. The last time I saw it, the same plane (from the same identified photo) was filling a different crater. I guess there was still enough fuel in the tanks to make the hop - or - its the only photo of a parked bomber in their files. :wink:

Oh dear.

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Are you sure it's B-19. Looks more like a single-tail version of the Liberator, XB- or YB-24N. Note high-mounted wing and long nose forwards of the cockpit.

What I see is very low resolution, but it looks to me like a Convair B-32.

What I can see from that low res pic is that it's cockpit is quite close to the propellers, just little forward, like in a Liberator. In B-32 it's much further in the nose.

There was a much better quality picture on the front page of whichever supermarket tabloid originally ran the "WWII bomber found on Moon" story.

I remember seeing it on a rack at a 7-11; at the time I was pretty sure that it was a pic of the single-tail version of the Liberator. The long, high-mounted wing, oval engine cowlings and the shape of the fuselage were quite distinctive.

Did anyone notice the Pterodactyl flying in from the right?

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Liberator YB 24N, Convair B-32, Douglas B 19. As Glom said "Oh dear."

What if we're all right. Now there are three planes, (and a Pterodactyl) on the moon!

(The editors should have chosen a standard B 17 or a B 24, something they built so many of that a few could have gone missing. The ones we spotted are rare birds and every prototype has a history.) 8-[

After reading the other responses and taking another look (the photo on the link is very poor quality), I think the single-tail B-24, not B-32, not B-19, is closest to being correct. Also possible -- in fact, likely IMHO -- is PB4Y-2 Privateer. I'm glad that we're making progress in identifying this aircraft on the moon. Such an important discovery needs to be accurately documented.

Sooooooooo...
Is this pareidolia?

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Concession: I agree, it's a YB-24N.

Obviously one of the flagships of Munchausen Airlines TM

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