![xb monitor taito type x xb monitor taito type x](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DHqG3zFBWB8/maxresdefault.jpg)
The Consolidated Vultee Bomber Plant assembly line was six months behind schedule, the aircraft making its first flight on 7 September 1942. 4 just west of Fort Worth, Texas along the south side of Lake Worth. The first XB-32-CO, AAF s/n 41-141, was constructed next to the Army Air Forces (AAF) Base Tarrant Field Airdrome at the AAF Aircraft Plant No. The first contract for two XB-32s was signed on 6 September 1940, the same day as the contract for the Boeing prototype XB-29. It was to have an estimated gross weight of 101,000 lb (46,000 kg). The aircraft was designed to be pressurized, and have remote-controlled retractable gun turrets with fourteen. The power-plants were to be four 2,200 horsepower (1,600 kW) Wright R-3350s, the same as specified for B-29s. Like the B-24 it was originally designed with twin fins and a large Davis-type wing, but with a longer, rounder fuselage and a rounded nose. The Model 33 on which Consolidated based its proposal was similar to the B-24 Liberator. The engineering development of the B-29 had been underway since mid-1938 when, in June 1940, the United States Army Air Corps requested a similar design from the Consolidated Aircraft Company in case of development difficulties with the B-29. Most of the extant orders of the B-32 were cancelled shortly thereafter and only 118 B-32 air frames of all types were built. The B-32 only reached units in the Pacific during mid-1945, and subsequently only saw limited combat operations against Japanese targets before the end of the war. It was developed in parallel with the Boeing B-29 Superfortress as a fallback design should the B-29 prove unsuccessful. The Consolidated B-32 Dominator ( Consolidated Model 34 ) was a heavy bomber made for United States Army Air Forces during World War II, and had the distinction of being the last Allied aircraft to be engaged in combat during World War II.