Rear-Engine Fighting Airplane Has More Room for Mounting Arms

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Additional space for armament and crew is provided in a new U. S. army plane by mounting its two engines at the rear with pusher propellers. Delivered recently by Bell Aircraft company, the ship weighs 17,500 pounds and is powered with Allison twelve-cylinder V-1710 type engines. It is known as the YFM-1.

Title (Dublin Core)
Rear-Engine Fighting Airplane Has More Room for Mounting Arms
Subject (Dublin Core)
en
en
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
Rear-Engine Fighting Airplane Has More Room for Mounting Arms
Language (Dublin Core)
eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
World War II
Date Issued (Dublin Core)
1940-06
Is Part Of (Dublin Core)
Popular Mechanics, v. 73, n. 6, 1940
pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
807
Rights (Dublin Core)
Public Domain (Google digitized)
Source (Dublin Core)
Google books
Archived by (Dublin Core)
Enrico Saonara
Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core)
United States of America