Douglas Model-1274 ?!

[hesham]

Hi,

in my dear Jared Zichek's book, Mother Ships,Parasites and More: Bomber,XC- Heavy Transport & Ficon Studies,
he mentioned that the Douglas Model-1274 was a tailless transport aircraft Project,carried 66 passenger,but in
my dear Tony Butler's book, American Secret Projects: Bombers,Attack and Anti-Submarine Aircraft 1945-1974,
the Model-1274 was a ASW anti-submarine aircraft Project.

And I am asking,who we can believe ?.

 

[Apophenia]

Perhaps both were proposed? Looking at your NARA Archives 2-view drawing, it's not hard to envision a variant with a smaller-diameter lower fuselage lobe for surface search radar and weapons bay. So, if the ASW aircraft proposals were 1274A and 1274B, maybe the transport was a '1274C' or some such?

 

[hesham]

Maybe my dear Apophenia,

but we hope to get answers from the two authors.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

From Tony Buttler:

It appears that both are correct. There is also an interceptor. The Douglas drawing list gives the following - I have no other information on this except that 1274 is given as a 'base model number'. From that I assume we may have some form of family of designs (but I cannot be sure on this).

1274	G/A	TURBO-JET
1274	G/A	3-V - TURBO JET -
1274A	G/A	3-V - T34-P-6
1274A		3-V - J-57-P-7 ENG.
1274B	G/A	3-V - J-57-P-7
1274C	G/A	3-V - J-57-P-7 ENG,
1274R	G/A	3-V - INTERCEPTOR

 

[hesham]

Many thanks to both of you my dears Paul and Tony.