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[NASA design history](https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19900014022/downloads/19900014022.pdf)", "Distinguish the experimental jet bomber and subsequent engine-test role from an operational production bomber. [NASA design history](https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19900014022/downloads/19900014022.pdf)", "Require a dated configuration record before interpreting an engine installation, canopy, nose treatment, or test modification as representative of the whole design." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Design and instance identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Registry design → military designation → manufacturer identity → airframe serial, with evidence", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a prototype's individual history or museum label from redefining the registered design." }, { "name": "Configuration applicability", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Proposed; built; ground-tested; flight-tested; preservation configuration; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates design intentions from hardware that existed and actually flew." }, { "name": "Installed propulsion", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Engine model and variant by installation position, airframe, and date", "why_it_matters": "An experimental installation can alter performance and handling without defining every XB-43." }, { "name": "Engine thrust", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "kN per engine, with rating, atmospheric conditions, and installed or bench basis", "why_it_matters": "Makes engine comparisons meaningful and prevents mixing ratings from different test configurations." }, { "name": "External geometry", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Span, length, and height in m; 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it should be described accurately.", "Surviving examples and parts are heritage that cannot be replaced." ], "affected_parties": [ "Victims of wartime bombing and their descendants", "Museums and historians", "Visitors" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The museum, collector or state that holds any surviving example; national archives hold its records.", "master_systems": [ "Museum collection catalogues", "National military archives" ] }, "visual_identification": [ "A twin-jet bomber with a long fuselage, straight wings and a cross-shaped tail.", "Jet intakes on the sides of the fuselage behind the cockpit." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Early jet engines of the time were unreliable.", "Surviving airframes are fragile and need careful conservation." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "This experimental aircraft was used to investigate jet-powered bomber flight and support development testing during the transition from piston engines to turbojets.", "It is now encountered in museum collections, archival photographs and technical histories of early jet aviation." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "The XB-43 designation follows the United States Army Air Forces aircraft designation system, in which X identifies experimental status and B identifies the bomber category." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q1252584: Douglas XB-43 Jetmaster", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1252584", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Douglas XB-43 Jetmaster", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_XB-43_Jetmaster", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "design-identity-and-lineage", "name": "Design identity and lineage", "description": "Establishes what belongs to the Jetmaster entry and how evidence distinguishes it from its predecessor and proposed derivatives.", "rationale": "Its relationship to the XB-42 makes mistaken identity and inherited specifications especially consequential.", "layers": [ { "id": "registry-and-design-boundary", "name": "Registry and design boundary", "description": "Connects the registered design to documented designations without confusing it with an individual aircraft.", "findings": [ { "id": "designation-applicability", "name": "Designation applicability", "description": "Record which source uses XB-43, YB-43, or another designation and whether it names the design, a configuration, or an airframe.", "questions": [ { "text": "What contemporary record establishes the designation used for this aircraft or configuration?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "designation-applicability-q01" }, { "text": "Does the designation denote this registered design, an individual prototype, or a separate unbuilt proposal?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "designation-applicability-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "xb-42-to-xb-43-transition", "name": "XB-42 to XB-43 transition", "description": "Records the supported design changes behind the move from propeller propulsion to jet propulsion.", "findings": [ { "id": "inherited-and-replaced-features", "name": "Inherited and replaced features", "description": "Separate design inheritance from claims of physical airframe conversion; NASA describes the XB-43 as a jet development following the XB-42. [NASA design history](https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19900014022/downloads/19900014022.pdf)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which drawings establish retained geometry and which establish changes for the turbojet installation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "inherited-and-replaced-features-q01" }, { "text": "Does a source describe design derivation or actual reuse of a particular XB-42 airframe?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "inherited-and-replaced-features-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "jet-installation-and-airframe", "name": "Jet installation and airframe", "description": "Captures the physical integration that differentiates the Jetmaster from its propeller-powered predecessor.", "rationale": "The fuselage propulsion arrangement determines identification, interfaces, and the relevance of configuration-specific evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "propulsion-flow-and-installation", "name": "Propulsion flow and installation", "description": "Relates installed engines to intake ducts, exhaust paths, and supporting systems.", "findings": [ { "id": "installed-engine-pair", "name": "Installed engine pair", "description": "Record each engine separately rather than assuming that every test configuration used an identical pair.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which engine model and variant occupied each position at the date being assessed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "installed-engine-pair-q01" }, { "text": "What thrust rating and installation losses are documented for that configuration?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "installed-engine-pair-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "geometry-and-loading", "name": "Geometry and loading", "description": "Tracks the airframe geometry and mass distribution associated with a particular jet installation.", "findings": [ { "id": "configuration-dependent-balance", "name": "Configuration-dependent balance", "description": "Associate dimensions, equipment mass, fuel state, and centre of gravity with the relevant prototype configuration.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which dimensions and mass figures come from drawings or weighing records for this configuration?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "configuration-dependent-balance-q01" }, { "text": "What balance changes accompanied engine substitutions or removal of experimental equipment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "configuration-dependent-balance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "crew-and-bomber-role", "name": "Crew and bomber role", "description": "Distinguishes crew accommodation and bomber provisions from equipment merely proposed for future versions.", "rationale": "A bomber designation does not establish that a prototype carried a complete operational weapons installation.", "layers": [ { "id": "crew-stations-and-controls", "name": "Crew stations and controls", "description": "Records the cockpit and nose arrangements needed to interpret photographs and operating evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "crew-arrangement-evidence", "name": "Crew arrangement evidence", "description": "Identify crew positions, canopy and nose configuration, visibility provisions, and controls from applicable records.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which crew stations, canopy arrangement, and nose treatment are documented for this airframe and date?", "kind": "definition", "id": "crew-arrangement-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which operating document establishes access, escape provisions, and control responsibilities?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "crew-arrangement-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "payload-and-proposal-boundary", "name": "Payload and proposal boundary", "description": "Separates bomber design capacity from installed equipment and demonstrated payload carriage.", "findings": [ { "id": "payload-evidence-status", "name": "Payload evidence status", "description": "Label payload and armament statements as intended, installed, or tested, with configuration-specific support.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does a stated bomb load describe a design allowance, an installed capability, or an actual test load?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "payload-evidence-status-q01" }, { "text": "Which records establish the equipment or ballast actually present in the relevant flight?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "payload-evidence-status-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "flight-test-and-engine-research", "name": "Flight test and engine research", "description": "Organises experimental roles, measured results, and limits by airframe and configuration.", "rationale": "The aircraft's use as an engine testbed makes a single timeless specification misleading.", "layers": [ { "id": "test-role-and-configuration", "name": "Test role and configuration", "description": "Links each experimental objective to the aircraft equipment that supported it.", "findings": [ { "id": "engine-testbed-role", "name": "Engine-testbed role", "description": "NASA records subsequent flying engine-testbed use; identify the specific test programme before assigning a result to the original bomber configuration. [NASA design history](https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19900014022/downloads/19900014022.pdf)", "questions": [ { "text": "What test objective, airframe, engine installation, and instrumentation belong to the recorded sortie?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "engine-testbed-role-q01" }, { "text": "Which conclusions concern the test engine rather than the XB-43 design as a whole?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "engine-testbed-role-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "performance-and-limit-evidence", "name": "Performance and limit evidence", "description": "Makes flight results comparable while retaining the conditions and restrictions that qualified them.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-performance-claims", "name": "Qualified performance claims", "description": "Retain measured or estimated status, loading, atmospheric conditions, engine ratings, and airspeed basis alongside each performance claim.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was the reported speed, range, ceiling, or climb rate measured, calculated, or specified as a target?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "qualified-performance-claims-q01" }, { "text": "What configuration and operating conditions qualify the figure?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "qualified-performance-claims-q02" }, { "text": "Which contemporary restrictions or unresolved test discrepancies prevent extending the result to other configurations?", "kind": "action", "id": "qualified-performance-claims-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "surviving-material-and-action", "name": "Surviving material and action", "description": "Connects surviving components and airframes to documented historical configurations and present condition.", "rationale": "An experimental aircraft can survive in a dismantled or altered state that supports identification but requires separate evidence for handling or restoration.", "layers": [ { "id": "survivor-authenticity-and-completeness", "name": "Survivor authenticity and completeness", "description": "Distinguishes original Jetmaster material, exchanged parts, replacements, and missing assemblies.", "findings": [ { "id": "material-configuration-match", "name": "Material configuration match", "description": "Assess whether surviving material represents an original bomber configuration, a later test installation, or a preservation assemblage.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which serial marks, accession records, and dated photographs identify the surviving airframe and major components?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "material-configuration-match-q01" }, { "text": "Which historical configuration does the surviving assembly represent, and where are components missing or substituted?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "material-configuration-match-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "preservation-and-handling-constraints", "name": "Preservation and handling constraints", "description": "Determines what movement, inspection, restoration, or system work is supported by current evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-dependent-permission", "name": "Condition-dependent permission", "description": "Require an applicable condition assessment and custodial procedure before treating historical operating or support provisions as usable today.", "questions": [ { "text": "What inspection establishes the condition of the landing gear, support points, fuselage structure, and engine installations before movement?", "kind": "action", "id": "condition-dependent-permission-q01" }, { "text": "Which fuel, electrical, pressure, and propulsion systems are present, isolated, or of unknown condition?", "kind": "definition", "id": "condition-dependent-permission-q02" }, { "text": "Which custodian-approved procedure and configuration records govern the proposed intervention?", "kind": "action", "id": "condition-dependent-permission-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This is a recall-based description, without consulted sources.", "The hazards listed are general consequences of the aircraft configuration, not claims about documented XB-43 accidents.", "Check individual airframe designations, engine changes and test histories before describing variants or assigning detailed performance figures." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Douglas XB-43 Jetmaster this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "United States Army Air Forces aircraft designation", "value_or_pattern": "XB-43", "note": "X denotes experimental status and B denotes bomber; the designation identifies an aircraft design, not an individual airframe." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Douglas XB-43 Jetmaster this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; 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the twin-engine XB-43 remained experimental." }, { "name": "An individual Douglas XB-43 airframe", "difference": "The registered name denotes the aircraft design; an individual example requires an airframe serial number and its own service history." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Douglas XB-43 Jetmaster this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which contemporary records settle XB-43 versus YB-43 designation usage and the serial-specific configuration chronology?", "What engine variants, paired installations, thrust ratings, and associated modifications were actually tested on each prototype?", "Which published performance and payload figures are measured results, and which are estimates or proposed production specifications?", "Which bomber equipment, crew provisions, operating restrictions, and failure modes are established by original manuals or test reports?", "What is the surviving aircraft's current custody, location, completeness, and preservation configuration, as confirmed by a dated custodian record?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 16, "questions": 28 } }