The USA interwar planes (1 Viewer)

[Sabrejet]

Keystone B-4A '8' of the 28th Bombardment Squadron over Coron Bay in the Philippines. Photo appears to be dated 10 August 1935.

 

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If you were ever sent on an errand to find a "Sky Hook", then you have found it.

The USS Akron and USS Macon (airships) were equipped with "Sky Hooks" that retrieved aircraft and retracted them into their hangars.

I have been sent to collect a bucket of "prop wash" and and some "flight line"

 

[Sabrejet]

I have been sent to collect a bucket of "prop wash" and and some "flight line"

...bubble for a spirit level; length of fallopian tubing; a long weight.....

 

[cvairwerks]

a long weight.....

Was that for a short ton or a long ton????

 

[special ed]

And red oil for the lantern.

 

[SaparotRob]

How about Henry Fords Last attempt to put America in the Air, The Ford 15P ( P for Personnel aircraft)

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Source Ford 15P Personal Aircraft

Take that, Horten Brothers.

 

[SaparotRob]

I have been sent to collect a bucket of "prop wash" and and some "flight line"

I was instructed to contact a train before its scheduled leaving time to be assured it had a can of beep.
My eye roll did not relieve me of this duty.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Can of squelch oil, anyone?

 

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HD-2 The US Navy had 10 of these during the early 20's, some were flown off of Battleship turret platforms

 

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USAAS Curtiss P-1, I have a fondness for the Curtiss P-1 and its off spring, it is a tortuous route though.

 

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A leftover from WWI this Spad and many others soldiered on after 1918 with the USAAS well for a few more years. Some Spads also had their Hisso engines replaced with the direct drive Wright- Martin which is pictured here.

 

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Atlantic (ex Fokker) O2A Transports. (first 2 anyway).

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Boeing P-12D lineup of the 34th pursuit.

 

[SaparotRob]

Go Boeing!

 

[GTX]

Grumman G-22 Gulfhawk II

 

[Sabrejet]

The single Keystone XO-15 s/n 28-195 was accepted at Wright Field on 13 February 1929 and passed to Brooks Field on 9 July. It was surveyed there on 2 August 1930.

 

[Sabrejet]

The Curtiss YP-23 was converted from P-22 s/n 32-278 with a V1570-29 Conqueror engine and an exhaust-driven General Electric F-2C turbosupercharger.

It was the last biplane delivered to the USAAC but proved obsolete compared to aircraft such as the Boeing P-26. Nevertheless Curtiss developed the design further, streamlining the installation to create a truly graceful design;

Final version (by this time designated XYP-23) removed the chin radiator and experimented with a total-loss water cooling system; it too was not a success and this rather elegant machine was surveyed at Wright Field on 6 January 1936.

 

[Sabrejet]

Another design which was overtaken by the pace of aircraft design in the pre-war period, Curtiss XP-31 Swift s/n 33-178 was originally flown with a 700 hp Wright R1750 Cyclone radial engine.

It failed to live up to its name, and despite being re-engined with a less draggy Curtiss Conqueror V12, it still fell below the performance of the P-26. Nevertheless its main claim to fame was in being the Air Corps' first fighter with a fully-enclosed cockpit.

Re-delivered with Wright Field experimental prototype designation XP-934, it was declared obsolete in December 1935 and passed to the Edgewood Arsenal on 14 July 1936 where it was surveyed that December.

 

[SaparotRob]

The single Keystone XO-15 s/n 28-195 was accepted at Wright Field on 13 February 1929 and passed to Brooks Field on 9 July. It was surveyed there on 2 August 1930.

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Wow. A career spanning two decades.

 

[Acree]

Atlantic (ex Fokker) O2A Transports. (first 2 anyway).
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Small typo: those are C-2A, not O2A. The three directly behind are Ford C-9 Trimotors. The last two are more difficult to identify, but look like a Keystone bomber, and possibly a Thomas Morse O-19.