From its pre-war inception, the USAAC (later USAAF) touted the aircraft as a strategic weapon; it was a potent, high-flying, long-ranging bomber capable of unleashing great destruction, able to defend itself, and having the ability to return home despite extensive battle damage. It quickly ...
the Glenn L. Martin Company produced their Model 167 which was given the official designation XA-22. Martin's design was a twin-engine fully-metallic monoplane, capable of around 310 mph (447 km/h) and carrying a crew of three. The bombardier sat in the nose below the cockpit, and self...
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To allow access to the cockpit, the plane would have needed a wing center section set forward of the cockpit (like the biplane) and the wings swept back to maintain the CG. But that would mean you couldn't use the stock wings...the ribs would be crosswise to the airflow. The 1C ...
The German battleship Tirpitz firing her main battery on trials (photo courtesy of "Die Schlachtschiffe der Bismarck-Klasse", Copyright Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn). Scanned and contributed by Peter Hunemeyer. The Italian battleship Littorio conducting gunnery practice during the summer of 1940 ...
A Coastal Command Catalina located the German battleship Bismarck on 26 May 1941 while she tried to evade Royal Navy forces. A flight of Catalinas spotted the Japanese fleet approaching Midway Island, beginning the Battle of Midway. A RCAF Canso flown by Squadron Leader L.J. Birchall foiled ...
into contact with single-seat, land-based opposition, as it did in the Mediterranean Theatre. Yet its long range was useful at times as evidenced in the 1941 chase of the German battleship Bismarck where Fulmars acted as carrier-borne spotters, tracking and trailing the fleeing battleship.[...