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The Curtiss A-8 Shrike was a ground attack aircraft developed for the US Army Air Corps and which would eventually enter service as the A-12. The A-8 was an odd mix of the modern and the obsolete. It was the first Curtiss military aircraft to be a monoplane, to have all-metal construction and full-span leading edge slats and the first to be designed with enclosed cockpits and a streamlined undercarriage.
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The Consolidated P-30 is significant for being the first fighter in United States Army Air Corps service to have retractable landing gear, an enclosed and heated cockpit for the pilot, and an exhaust-driven turbosupercharger for altitude operation.
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The Curtiss XP-40Q was elvulated by the USAAF with only 2 built, but the end of the war led to cancellation of development of the Warhawk. One crashed during testing and the second XP-40Q prototype ended its carrer as a postwar air racer flown by Jean Skip Zeigler.
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Neil Armstrong and the Bell LLRV
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Bell Aerospace in Wheatfield, NYdesigned and built the Lunar Lander Research Vehicle that that played a significant role in Neil Armstrong landing on the surface of the moon.
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Neil Armstrong Dead At Age 82. First man to walk on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 mision on July 20, 1969. A great American hero who
US Navy RC-4 Curtiss Condor
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