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Posted: October/02/2020 at 1:57am  Quote
 
Boeing P-26 "Peashooter"

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Posted: October/02/2020 at 5:49am  Quote
 
Not the Peashooter.

1. It’s designer received an aeronautical engineering degree from Columbia University in 1911!
2. It had a Hisso that was all Wright
3. First monoplane fighter aircraft in the US.
4. Prototypes went to the Army and Navy
 
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Posted: October/02/2020 at 7:03am  Quote
 
Brewster F2A Buffalo.

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Not the Buffalo. It’s earlier than that.

1. It’s designer received an aeronautical engineering degree from Columbia University in 1911!
2. It had a Hisso that was all Wright
3. First monoplane fighter aircraft in the US.
4. Prototypes went to the Army and Navy
5. 5000 orders cancelled due to the Armistice
 
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Posted: October/02/2020 at 8:50am  Quote
 
I just ran across this plane now I have to find it again lol
 
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Posted: October/02/2020 at 9:23am  Quote
 
1. It’s designer received an aeronautical engineering degree from Columbia University in 1911!
2. It had a Hisso that was all Wright
3. First monoplane fighter aircraft in the US.
4. Prototypes went to the Army and Navy
5. 5000 orders cancelled due to the Armistice
6. 300 HP American built French engine
 
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Posted: October/02/2020 at 9:36am  Quote
 
loening M-8
 
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Loening M-8
M-8, M-80, -81 1918 = Army/USN fighter and racer. 2pOmwM; 300hp Wright-Hisso H; span: 32'10" (?>35'0") length: 21'6" (?>24'4" ?>25'0") v: 144/x/58 ceiling: 18,600'. Ordered from Wright-Martin, subcontracted to Loening. Strut-braced shoulder wing, twin rudders. The first military monoplane in the US; originally designed with two rudders. Altitude record of 21,000 set in 1919 by Maj R W Schroeder. POP: 2 prototypes to Army [AS40121/40122], 1 to USN in 1919 [A5631]. Production contract for 5,000 planes cancelled by the Armistice, but design continued as PW-2.


JohnFitz built a model of it.

 
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