Curtiss xp-55 Ascender

[johnbr]

Curtiss XP-55 Ascender (CW-24) (s/n 42-78845) on the ground with the engine running. Image dated 16 October 1943.

 

[Wurger]

 

[at6]

Sweet!!!!

 

[johnbr]

 

[johnbr]

 

[johnbr]

View attachment 467717

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

 

[johnbr]

Curtiss CW-24B: Sometimes confused with the Curtiss XP-55 Ascender, the Curtiss CW-24B was the testbed for that canard fighter. A lighter aircraft with its tube steel and fabric construction, the CW-24B was tested in Langley's 30 x 60 Full Scale Tunnel.

Curtiss cw-24b

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[johnbr]

View attachment 467720 Good photo new one.
Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender fighter airplane test firing machine guns, 7 March 1944.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Wayne Little]

Sweet.

 

[polo1112]

Very interesting pictures from the Curtiss Ascender.
Thank you very much for sharing them. Polo.

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[wuzak]

"Shit, they put the engine in the wrong end!"

 

[johnbr]

I think it was from too much beer.

 

[Wurger]

So what kind of beer it was....oh boy...