Showing posts with label USA 1930-1938. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USA 1930-1938. Show all posts
Tuesday, 21 July 2026

Curtiss P-36 Hawk. Part sixteen.

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  The Curtiss P-36 is an American fighter of the 1930s that was best known as the predecessor of the P-40 Warhawk.  Its inception can be tra...
Tuesday, 29 April 2025

Boeing Stearman Model 75, part seven. The Stearman in America, part four. USAAC, USN and USAAF users

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  The Boeing Stearman Model 75 is an American biplane of which 10,626 exemplars were manufactured from 1934 until the mid 1940s.  It served ...
Saturday, 25 September 2021

Curtiss SBC Helldiver, part one. The Helldiver in the US Navy

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  A contract was signed in August 1936 by the US Navy for the delivery of 83 SBC-3 (Curtiss Model 77A - according to the internal denominati...
Thursday, 9 September 2021

Grumman J2F Duck, part two

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  When the last production Grumman JF-3 rolled out the factory on 18th October 1935, Duck production was halted for a time until March 1936,...
Saturday, 4 September 2021

Grumman JF Duck

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  The Grumman JF Duck was an American single-engine amphibious biplane manufactured by Grumman during the 1930s decade. The Duck was designe...
Thursday, 24 June 2021

Martin B-10

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  The B-10 waged a revolution in bomber design with its all-metal monoplane airframe, enclosed cockpits, rotating gun turrets, retractable l...
Saturday, 23 January 2021

Douglas B-18 Bolo, part one

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  The Douglas B-18 Bolo was an American medium bomber which served with the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) during the late 1930s and e...
Thursday, 9 January 2020

Curtiss XF12C-1/Curtiss XS4C-1/Curtiss XSBC-1

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The Curtiss XF12C-1 was one of the designs that ended up being the original Curtiss SBC Helldiver. It was based on a US Navy Bureau of Aer...
Tuesday, 17 December 2019

Vought OS2U Kingfisher, part five

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The Vought OS2U Kingfisher was designed by Vought's main designer Rex B. Beisel as he was tasked with designing an observation monopla...
Tuesday, 12 February 2019

Douglas DC-1

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The Douglas DC-1 was the first model of the famous American DC (which stands for Douglas Commercial) commercial transport aircraft series....
Saturday, 1 September 2018

Boeing P-26

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The Boeing Company funded the project to produce the Boeing Model 248 in September 1931, with the US Army Air Corps supplying the engines ...
Saturday, 2 June 2018

Curtiss SOC Seagull, part one

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The Curtiss SOC Seagull was an American single-engined scout observation aircraft, which was designed by Alexander Solla when he was worki...
Tuesday, 20 February 2018

Bell YFM-1 Airacuda

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Materializing many innovative features and designed by Robert J. Woods, the Airacuda was a five-seat long-range bomber destroyer. It was p...
Monday, 30 October 2017

Berliner-Joyce P-16

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After the Berliner Aircraft Company was adquired by the newly established Berliner-Joyce Aircraft Corporation in February 1929 with the ai...