Click to open image viewer. Not long before America declared war on the Japanese in 1941, the U. S. Army Air Corps sponsored three radical and unorthodox fighter aircraft designs. Pusher power plants ...

Designed with canards up front and a pusher prop in the rear, the Curtiss XP-55 looked more like science fiction than a warplane. It promised agility, speed, and innovation - but ended up being ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Though turboprops are capable in their own right, jet engines easily surpass turboprops in performance. A turboprop will struggle to reach Mach 1, whereas a ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The XP-55 Ascender was an odd-ball plane that didn’t enter production. In 1939, the Army put out a call for tenders, asking aircraft manufacturers to design an airframe ...

World War II brought the world some of the best aeronautical engineering designs ever created. And although many of these innovative designs definitely pushed all boundaries, several of them never ...

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