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XF8B-1 illustrating the contra-rotating propellers. The XF8B-1 was, at the time, the largest and heaviest single-seat, single-engine fighter developed in the United States. . Boeing called the XF8B-1 optimistically, the "five-in-one fighter" (fighter, interceptor, dive bomber, torpedo bomber, or level bombe
Bell XTDL Airacobra - Fighter; Bell XF2L Airacomet - Jet fighter; Boeing PB Flying Fortress - Heavy bomber; Boeing P2B Superfortress - 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 ...
Carrier fighter Boeing Conflicting designation with PW-8 (XP-4). 1923 1923 158 F3B: Carrier-based fighter-bomber: Boeing Production version, the F3B-1, was designated Model 77. 1928 1928 74 XF6B / XBFB: Carrier-based fighter-bomber Boeing Boeing's last Biplane design for the United States Navy. 1933 Never 1 F2B: Carrier fighter (FB series) Boeing
During a high-speed taxi run at Seattle's Boeing Field in Boeing XF8B-1, BuNo 57984, pilot Bob Lamsen experienced an unexpected undercarriage retraction at 4:30 pm. The airframe came to rest near the middle of the main runway after sliding about 1,000 feet (300 m).
1: Boeing XB-39 Superfortress heavy bomber: 1944: retired prototype: 1: Boeing XF8B fighter bomber: 1944: retired prototype: 3: Boeing XPBB Sea Ranger maritime patrol bomber: 1942: retired prototype: 1: Brewster SB2A Buccaneer scout bomber: 1941: retired 1944: 771: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber: 1939: retired 1968: 18,482 [notes 1 ...
Although Boeing produced the prototype XF8B in 1944 and the X-32 entry in the Joint Strike Fighter contest in 2000, the P-26 was the last Boeing Company fighter aircraft to enter service until Boeing acquired McDonnell Douglas in 1997 and took over its production and continuing support contracts for the F-15 Eagle and the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.
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.
Bell XTDL Airacobra fighter; Bell XF2L Airacomet jet fighter; Boeing PB Flying Fortress heavy bomber; Boeing P2B Superfortress 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