united states army air corps

I found this snippet of information on Wikepedia: "Beechcraft began designing the Model 25 early in 1940 in response to the requirement of the then-named United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) for a small twin-engined aircraft suitable for use in training student pilots in the handling of...

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Between 1918 and 1930, the U.S.A.A.S., and then the U.S.A.A.C, evaluated a number of aircraft at Wright Field that were usually modified by the Engineering division from existing designs. These were allocated a "P-" number ranging from P-1 (a Curtiss Jenny) to P-599 (a Curtiss A-3B). These were...

http://cgi.ebay.com/CURTISS-XP-55-ASCENDER-TAILLESS-PROTOTYPE-42-78846-1943_W0QQitemZ370244184141QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item563445e84d&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 $99? Seems expensive.

I finally got the microfilm in the mail of all four volumes of this study; and had them scanned by a local company. First up, the magnificient maidien known as the Valkyrie: Reading further; North American was very dead set against Active Defense in any form for the B-70; which isn't that...

Time's right to start a thread on my namesake, the XP-67 Moonbat (a.k.a. simply as the Bat). Here's a good link about it. http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/URG/xp67.html Moonbat

This idea was proved pre WW2 but for some reason doesn't seem to have been considered for use in extending the range of LRMP aircraft. What method was used, my reading of it is that the tanker trailed a hose (with a drogue to prevent wild movements) and the receiving aircraft caught this with a...

My dears, do you know Davis Manta fighter ?. just model;

Beech aircraft: model-40 :experimental model-35 with two 180 hp Franklin engines mounted in nose driving one propeller. model-112 :1957 twin tuboprop businees aircraft project with two Lycoming T-53 engines. model-120 :1962 twin turboprop pressurized business...

http://www.marylandaviationmuseum.org/pdf/Models.pdf Pretty complete model list of Martin aircraft.

Hoping to stir upr some discussions (and undigging of half-forgotten infos) I post the Grumman projects list found in the Francillon's book (Putnam-Naval Insitute) on Grumman Corporation. As it's very well explained in the opening remarks, it is complete till G-128 and after veeeeery sketchy (to...

I noticed that Lockheed 70's project are all in the 1000 series CL-1200 and 1600 are Lancer (F-104 derivatives) CL-1400 is A-10 competitor CL-2000 is the SST I don't understand why they changed from their odinary system (CL-595 for example) PS have someone ever noticed that Lockheed and...

From old good Letectvi+Kosmonautika

Lockheed P-38 Lightning Competitors In 1936 the US Army Air Corps (USAAC) put out a tender for a ‘Twin-engine, High Altitude Interceptor’ that was designated as ‘X-608’ The winner of this competition would be the Lockheed Model 22 / P-38 Lightning. But does anyone know of the proposals to...

Hi folks, I recently read that Howard Hughes submitted a pursuit plane version of his H-1 racer design to the Army Air Corps and felt confident that after his demonstration of his trans-continental flight the army would be interested because this airplane was definitely faster than any military...

Gentlemen, Is there anyone of you who haves ever seen illustrations of the 6-engined initial design for the XB-19 ? (3-view or artists impression) Thanks in advance..

Hi folks, Here are some Boeing Flying Wing concepts from the mid 1930s. They are all variations of the same theme and come under the Model 306 designation: First the Heavy Bomber: Regards, Greg