On August 1, 1907, the Aeronautical Division of the United States Army Signal Corps was established, and the United States Army purchased its first heavier-than-air aircraft, a Wright Model A, in 1908. It was allocated the serial number 1. Further Army aircraft were assigned serial numbers i...
After WW2, "buzz numbers" were introduced to identify USAF aircraft. This number was a combination of a two-letter code indicating the aircraft type and the last three digits of the aircraft serial number. * Double-type designations were removed in 1948 from all trainers, except B and P ...
The Air Mobility Initiative (AMI) is being created with a series of research projects looking at making electric air mobility within and between cities a reality. Projects are centered around three main areas: electric aircraft, air traffic management services, and vertiports. ...
While a new fiberglass dome was designed, it would not be ready well into serial production of the P-61A (Harrison&Pape 115).The remote-controlled turret was also found to have several faults. The most immediate and concerning of these was that, while the guns were forward, the aircraft ...
USAF C-47 Pilot's flying VNAF aircraftApril 1962 - December 1963 "Ba Muoi Lam" made for 30 USAF Pilots (The Dirty Thirty), hand-embroidered in Vietnam, UnUsed...(sold) "Ba Muoi Lam"=the number 35=a Billy Goat also there is a "Black 35" which equates to a Lecherous ...
United States Military Aircraft Since 1909, Gordon Swanborough and Peter M. Bowers, Smithsonian, 1989. Boeing B-17E and F Flying Fortress, Charles D. Thompson, Profile Publications, 1966. American Combat Planes, Ray Wagner, Third Edition, Doubleday, 1982. ...
Bell began test flying the first Model 14 Airacobra I in April 1941. It carried the British serial number AH570. Tested on the second British Airacobra (AH571) was a revised rudder of more angular shape and less area. Although the aircraft was delivered to England in this form, this rudde...
The success of the Curtiss Conqueror engine in these two racing aircraft led to an Army contract for a service test quantity of 18 P- 6s placed on October 3, 1928. These aircraft were assigned the serial numbers 29-260/273 and 29-363/366. These aircraft were given the company designation...
By early 1941, the P-36 was already recognized as being obsolescent, and had been largely supplanted in first-line Army Air Force (as the Army Air Corps had been renamed) units by such aircraft as the Bell P-39 Airacobra and the Curtiss P-40. At home, the P-36s were largely relegate...