Thumpalumpacus
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Is that a DVII with a second seat?
The USA interwar planes
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not a D-VII but based on the design.
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Sopwith 1&1/2 Strutter being loaded aboard a US Navy Battleship for launching from Main Gun turret. 1920/22
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Post War US SE5a, with its fuselage redone with wood venire, not sure if this was a one of or something on going at the time
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US Navy Curtiss F6C-3's From VF-2 all the pilots in this squadron were enlisted men, the only such in the Navy.
Originally ordered as a V12-engined Curtiss P-1A, s/n 26-300 was converted to what was initially described as "P-1A with Curtiss radial" (the latter a 390hp Curtiss R-1454) and designated XP-3. Following test flights with Curtiss the aircraft was accepted at McCook Field on 5 October 1926.
The Curtiss engine proved unsatisfactory and in May 1927 the aircraft was routed for conversion to XP-3A standard to mount a 410hp Pratt & Whitney R-1340-9; the first image would appear to show the aircraft at around the time of its delivery in this configuration to Wright Field on 29 October 1927. Of note, despite the known date of conversion to XP-3A standard (and indicated thus by the rudder markings), the presence of an "AS" (US Army Air Service) prefix to the serial number shows that a repaint had not been done to reflect the change to "AC" (Air Corps) which should have come into effect on 2 July 1926.
In the second photo the aircraft's appearance has been transformed by the addition of an engine cowling but the rest of the airframe appears largely unchanged.
This aircraft was converted at Wright Field to become an XP-21 in October 1930 (300hp Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior - third photo) and remained there until July the following year when it was flown to the Fairfield Air Depot and scrapped.
The Curtiss engine proved unsatisfactory and in May 1927 the aircraft was routed for conversion to XP-3A standard to mount a 410hp Pratt & Whitney R-1340-9; the first image would appear to show the aircraft at around the time of its delivery in this configuration to Wright Field on 29 October 1927. Of note, despite the known date of conversion to XP-3A standard (and indicated thus by the rudder markings), the presence of an "AS" (US Army Air Service) prefix to the serial number shows that a repaint had not been done to reflect the change to "AC" (Air Corps) which should have come into effect on 2 July 1926.
In the second photo the aircraft's appearance has been transformed by the addition of an engine cowling but the rest of the airframe appears largely unchanged.
This aircraft was converted at Wright Field to become an XP-21 in October 1930 (300hp Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior - third photo) and remained there until July the following year when it was flown to the Fairfield Air Depot and scrapped.
cammerjeff
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How about Henry Fords Last attempt to put America in the Air, The Ford 15P ( P for Personnel aircraft)
Source Ford 15P Personal Aircraft
Source Ford 15P Personal Aircraft
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British Blackburn "Swift" in US Navy service
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Boeing F4B-2 of VF-3B "Screaming Eagles"
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Leoning OL-8 of VJ-1
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US Air Service Spad's 1920/21....Spads and SE5A made up the backbone of Army pursuit aviation at this time
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US Air Service SE5E (a SE5A erected By Eberhart Steel from parts brought back from England) 1920/21...with a Thomas Morse S4c in the background
Army pursuit
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Berliner-Joyse P-16 short lived low number pursuit of the mid 20's
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O47.....between the wars Observation duties were handled by 29 squadrons that were part of the Air National Guard and
not by the US Army.
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Martin MB-2 first true USAAS bomber
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Nieuport 28 takes of from a turret ramp on the USS Arizona 1920
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P-26 from the 3rd Pursuit Squadron, Philippines 1938.
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B-18 night maintenance, summer 1941
