XP-53. Within two months the Army Air Corps contacted Curtiss for an aircraft with a laminar wing and the British Rolls Royce Merlin engine. Curtiss suggested...
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The Curtiss XP-46 was a 1940s American prototype fighter aircraft. It was a development of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation in an effort to introduce the...
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The Curtiss XP-42 was an experimental fighter built by Curtiss Aircraft in the late 1930s to research engine cooling and improving the performance of the...
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The Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender (company designation CW-24) is a 1940s United States prototype fighter aircraft built by Curtiss-Wright. Along with the...
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altitude of 25,000 ft. XP-6 Model 34P, modified from a P-1 with a Curtiss V-1570-17 Conqueror engine XP-6A Model 34K, same as XP-6 but with untapered wings...
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The Curtiss-Wright XF-87 Blackhawk (previously designated the XP-87) was a prototype American all-weather jet fighter-interceptor, and the company's last...
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the Curtiss D-12 and were consequently redesignated as P-1s. The fifth machine (25-243) received a Curtiss V-1570 Conqueror engine and became the XP-6....
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drop tank. Soon after P-40 production started, Curtiss began development of its intended successor, the XP-46. This aircraft was based on the P-40, but...
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The Curtiss XP-62 was a prototype single-engine interceptor aircraft, that was built for the United States Army Air Forces, by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation...
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development Curtiss P-36 Hawk Curtiss P-40 Warhawk Curtiss XP-42 Curtiss XP-46 Curtiss P-60 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Curtiss P-37. Bowers...
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