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Every one in the US tries to build a US version of the Bristol Bris-Fit F.2 and fails.The Engineering Division USXB-1


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Actually (US)XB-1A demonstrated improved performance in comparison with the Bristol version equipped with a 300 hp Hispano-Suiza engine. It was a good attempt to build an "army cooperation" aircraft, albeit few available and late in the field. During the 1920-es U.S. Army Air Service favoured Liberty-powered DH-4M versions for the peacetime tasks at hand.
Best regards,
Yavor
 
Actually (US)XB-1A demonstrated improved performance in comparison with the Bristol version equipped with a 300 hp Hispano-Suiza engine. It was a good attempt to build an "army cooperation" aircraft, albeit few available and late in the field. During the 1920-es U.S. Army Air Service favoured Liberty-powered DH-4M versions for the peacetime tasks at hand.
Best regards,
Yavor
It may have done better with the Hiiapano 300hp but they went on to the 12 cylinder liberty and added weight and then the engineering divsion got involved and added more weight, and ended up building the worst version. That doest sound like a good attempt since the original idea was to emulate the Bristol. As far as favoring the DH-4 versions I think it was "shit we got a boat load of these, lets work with that".

Curtiss with 300 Hisso 122 mph.
Bristol Bris-Fit 123 mph
 
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