#b-42

[lonestarflight]

Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster (43-50224) parked at the Douglas factory in Long Beach, California.

Photographed by Marie Hansen

Date: December 1945

LIFE Magazine Archive: 116286381, 649476, 116286383, 116286371, 116286372, 116286376

[chirpycreations]

Lost Children of the CCC - 1-Year Anniversary

9 chapters and 27,117 words.

Another 55,592 across many chapters in the making.

And for some reason, 40 of you guys want to follow this...?

It's crazy.

It's crazy for multiple reasons.

The biggest one for me personally is the progress I've made. 82,000 words. Even if only a quarter are published, it's still some of the best progress I've ever made on a project.

The second would be that we're celebrating Lost Children and not Triple Warfare. I always thought Triple Warfare would be the one to take off. That's the one with the interesting story, Lost Children always has just been a silly fic with silly concepts for my own enjoyment that spiralled out of control. I just never got to Triple Warfare. I have the planning down, I'm just... yet to get any further.

But that's ok. I'm having waaay too much fun with Lost Children anyway ^^ Like I'm genuinely sitting here and smiling away and feeling excited. I've had like 4 anniversaries already for another story I work on, but never feel excited about it like I do right now. Like I said, at the end of the day it's a silly little story that brings me joy and if you guys are enjoying it too, well that's a bonus.

So, happy anniversary to Lost Children, today at the time this publishes marks 1 year since the first chapter went up.

The art above is your first look at the kids this story revolves around (crazy, I know. We've been living with the Toppat clan in jail for the last 9 chapters...

Or have we... MUAHAHAHA!).

🎂

[lonestarflight]

Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster (43-50224) running its engines at night for the press, while parked at the Douglas factory in Long Beach, California.

Date: December 1945

LIFE Magazine Archives: 116286342, 116286340, 116286336, 11628635, 116286344, 116286343, 116286343, 116286354

[lonestarflight]

Douglas XB-42A Mixmaster (43-50224) parked at the Douglas factory in Long Beach, California.

Date: May 1947

SDASM Archives: 01_00091702, 01_00091703

[lonestarflight]

Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster (43-50224) parked on the tarmac, likely at the Muroc Army Airfield, California. This was the first of two prototypes ordered by the USAAF.

Date: May 10, 1944

SDASM Archives: 01_00095105_2, 01_00095103_2, 01_00095104_2

National Museum of the United States Air Force: 061020-F-1234S-001

[lonestarflight]

Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster (s/n 43-50224) in flight.

source

[lonestarflight]

The second Douglas XB-42 built (S/N 43-50225) parked at an Airfield.

Date: late 1940s

U.S. Air Force photo: 061020-F-1234S-002

[lonestarflight]

Aft view of Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster (S/N 43-50225).

061020-F-1234S-003