American Attack Aircraft, Part 11: Near-Bomber Designs of the Second World War
Readers may recall that in the tenth article of this series on U.S. attack aircraft of the interwar period, we ...
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Embraer Adds Counter-Drone Platform to the A-29 Super Tucano
Embraer has unveiled a new concept for its A-29 Super Tucano attack aircraft, adapting the turboprop platform for counter-drone operations. ...
American Attack Aircraft, Part 10: Douglas Export Models
Building on the A-17 platform, the aircraft developers sought to enter international markets. Adopting a flexible approach to customer requirements, ...
American Attack Aircraft, Part 9: Northrop A-17
As I mentioned in one of the earlier articles, the engineers at Northrop, drawing on their experience with the “militarization” ...
American Attack Aircraft, Part 8: Contribution of Gerard Valtí
In 1932, aviation enthusiast Gerard Valtí secured financial backing from automotive magnate E. L. Cord and founded the Airplane Development ...
All about the “passenger attack” Cessna AC-208 Combat Caravan: an air‑defense variant?
While writing an article on the Northrop Gamma attack aircraft, I kept getting a sense of déjà vu: the idea ...
American Attack Aircraft, Part 7: John Northrop’s “Gamma”
In the first half of the 1930s, the U.S. aviation industry was introducing new civilian aircraft one after another. These ...
American Attack Aircraft, Part 6: Experiments of the 1930s
In parallel with the production and deployment of the A-12 attack aircraft, the U.S. Army Air Corps tested several other ...
First American Attack Aircraft, Part 5: Production A-12 “Shrike”
Although Curtiss won the 1931 competition for a new attack aircraft, its A-8 did not enter mass production. The main ...