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Curtiss A-18 Shrike II. In the years leading up to World War II, the United States Army Air Corps were interested in attack aircraft capable of carrying larger bomb loads with greater firepower. The attack aircraft design standard essentially became a light bomber with firepower only slightly less than the medium bombers being developed as the standard .30 in machine gun generally was replaced by .50 in ones on new aircraft in development. Only 13 examples were built.
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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