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Aircraft of the U.S. Navy |
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The Boeing XF7B- was the first low-wing monoplane with a retractable undercarriage to be tested by the U.S. Navy. The aircraft was developed in response to a U.S. Navy specification of 6 December 1932 for a single-seat fighter. Boeing designed the Model 273, a low-wing monoplane with cantilevered wings, a retractable undercarriage and an enclosed cockpit. It was powered by a 550hp Pratt & Whitney engine. It was similar to the Model 264/ YP-29, and thus shared many features with the earlier P-26 fighter. The XF7B- was the first Boeing aircraft to be built with a controllable pitch propeller, the first to get flaps and the first low-wing cantilever monoplane to be submitted to the Navy for use from aircraft carriers.
The aircraft made its maiden flight on 14 September 1933 and was delivered to the Navy test centre at Anacostia on 11 November 1933. After the first set of Navy tests it was returned to Boeing to have split flaps and a longer engine cowling installed. The cockpit canopy was also later removed. Despite the changes the U.S. Navy wasn't interested in the design, considering it to have too high a landing speed for carrier operations as well as suffering from a poor view from the cockpit. The sole prototype was over-stressed in a dive in March 1935 after the windscreen of the open cockpit collapsed. After this incident it was no longer seen as safe to fly, and was scrapped. |
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Die Boeing XF7B- war das erste
Tiefdeckerflugzeug mit einziehbarem Fahrwerk, das von der U.S. Navy getestet
wurde. Das Flugzeug wurde als Reaktion auf eine Spezifikation der U.S. Navy
vom 6. Dezember 1932 für einen einsitzigen Jäger entwickelt. Boeing entwarf
das Modell 273, ein Tiefdecker mit freitragenden Flügeln, einem einziehbaren
Fahrwerk und einem geschlossenen Cockpit. Es wurde von einem 550 PS starken
Pratt & Whitney-Motor angetrieben. Es ähnelte dem Modell 264 / YP-29 und
hatte daher viele Merkmale mit dem früheren P-26-Jäger gemeinsam. Die XF7B-
war das erste Boeing-Flugzeug, das mit einem Verstellpropeller gebaut wurde,
das erste, das Klappen erhielt, und der erste freitragende Eindecker, das
der Marine zur Verwendung auf Flugzeugträgern angeboten wurde. |
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XF7B-1 |
Designation given to one prototype for U.S. Navy evaluation, Model 273. |
XF7B-1 |
Bezeichnung des einzelnen Proto-typen des Models 273 für die Erprobung durch die U.S: Navy |
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