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The Boeing XF8B (Model 400) was a single-engine aircraft developed by Boeing during World War II to provide the United States Navy with a long-range shipboard fighter aircraft. The XF8B was intended for operation against the Japanese home islands from aircraft carriers outside the range of Japanese land-based aircraft.
Silverplate Boeing B-29B-35-MO Superfortress 44-27303 ("Jabit III") of the 509th Composite Group, Wendover Army Air Field, Utah, on a cross-country training mission, struck several objects on landing at Chicago Municipal Airport and never flew again. Assigned to the 4200th Base Unit at the airport pending a disposition decision, it was salvaged ...
Boeing PB Flying Fortress - Heavy bomber; Boeing 314 Clipper - Impressed flying boat transport; Boeing XF8B - Prototype carrier-based fighter-bomber; Boeing XPBB Sea Ranger - Flying boat/patrol bomber; Brewster F2A Buffalo - Carrier-based fighter; Brewster SBA/Naval Aircraft Factory SBN - Carrier-based scout bomber/trainer
Boeing Model 306 heavy bomber: n/a: abandoned 1935 project: 0: Boeing XB-15 heavy bomber: 1937: retired prototype 1944: 1: Boeing XB-38 Flying Fortress heavy bomber: 1943: Lost 1943 project cancelled: 1: Boeing XB-39 Superfortress heavy bomber: 1944: retired prototype: 1: Boeing XF8B fighter bomber: 1944: retired prototype: 3: Boeing XPBB Sea ...
Boeing 400 XF8B; Boeing 401 two-seat helicopter project; Boeing 404 six-engine pusher flying-wing bomber; Boeing 417 post World War II feeder liner design, never built [30] Boeing 424 pre-B-47 project: a B-29 with two turbojets in nacelles placed above (1943-44) Boeing 431-16 high-wing transport project with two Pratt & Whitney Double Wasp engines
The United States Air Force and Navy were both seeking new aircraft when Robert McNamara was appointed U.S. Secretary of Defense in January 1961. [1] The aircraft sought by the two armed services shared the need to carry heavy armament and fuel loads, feature high supersonic speed, twin engines and two seats, and probably use variable geometry wings. [2]
Boeing XF8B; Boeing YB-40 Flying Fortress; C. Consolidated Vultee XP-81; Consolidated XB-41 Liberator; Convair XF-92; Curtiss-Wright XF-87 Blackhawk; Curtiss XF14C ...
In the US Air Force the naming convention for fighter aircraft is a prefix "F-", followed by a number, ground attack aircraft are prefixed with “A-” and bombers with “B-”. Fighter aircraft from the second world war onwards are sorted into generations , from 1 to 5, based on technological level.