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    The Bell P-59 Airacomet is a single-seat, twin jet-engine fighter aircraft that was designed and built by Bell Aircraft during World War II. It was the...
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    the designation XP-59A was used as a cover for a secret jet fighter prototype, which would enter production as the P-59 Airacomet. The XP-52 design was...
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    Koehnen 1982, p. 24. Koehnen 1982, pp. 44, 48. Koehnen 1982, p. 48. Green 1961, p. 24. Carpenter, David M. Flame Powered: The Bell XP-59A Airacomet and the...
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  • Finnish modified Brewster Buffalos had the highest kill ratio. Bell XP-59A Airacomet, at airandspace.si.edu Archived August 21, 2012, at the Wayback...
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  • Bell AH-1F Cobra 69-16416 Bell P-39Q Airacobra – Composite Bell P-59 Airacomet 44-22614 Bell OH-58 Kiowa 71-61668 Bell UH-1B Iroquois 62-12537 Bell UH-1D...
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  • Accurate Automation LoFLYTE Beech UC-45J Expeditor 67161 Bell P-59A Airacomet 44-22633 Bell X-1 – Replica Bensen X-25B 68-10771 Boeing NC-135A Stratolifter...
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    first flight of the XP-59A, the USAAF had placed an order for one hundred P-59A Airacomets. However, the performance of the XP-59A service test aircraft...
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    Retrieved 2023-12-12. "Bell P-59B Airacomet". National Museum of the United States Air Force. Retrieved 27 December 2023. "P-61 Black Widow | aircraft...
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    to run, and as the production General Electric J31 it powered the Bell P-59A Airacomet. Development of the Power Jets W.2 was authorised in 1940 in coordination...
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  • General Electric J31 which powered the first US jet aircraft, the Bell XP-59A Airacomet. During the late 1930s/early 1940s, a small company in England,...
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    was activated at Muroc Army Air Field, California. Testing of the Bell P-59 Airacomet jet fighter was being conducted at a site on the north shore of Rogers...
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    Sikorsky R-4 (1943–1944) Bell YP-59A Airacomet (1944–1945) Bell P-59B Airacomet (1945) Mitsubishi A6M Zero (1944–1945) Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star (1945–1946)...
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    Commander Blackburn was an early jet pilot in the Navy. He flew a Bell YP-59A Airacomet at Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent, on 13 May 1946, the 120th American...
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  • RQ-7A Shadow Albatros D.Va Beechcraft C17L Staggerwing Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis Bell XP-59A Airacomet Bleriot XI Boeing 247D Boeing 747 – Nose Only Boeing...
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    replica Bede BD-5 Micro Beech UC-45 Expeditor Bell P-39N Airacobra Bell X-2 – replica Bell YP-59A Airacomet Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress Boeing B-50A Superfortress...
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    in exchange for a General Electric J31 (Power Jets W.1) powered Bell XP-59A Airacomet, RG362/G. The Meteor was first flown at Muroc Army Airfield by John...
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    secluded site for testing America's first jet, the super-secret Bell Aircraft P-59 Airacomet jet fighter. The immense volume of flight tests being conducted...
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    California in August 1944. It became a testing unit for the Bell P-59 Airacomet and Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star jet aircraft under Fourth Air Force. The...
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    sent to the U.S. for evaluation in exchange for a pre-production Bell YP-59A Airacomet, the Meteor being flown first by John Grierson at Muroc Army Airfield...
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  • Apache, also known as A-36 Invader and precursor to P-51 Mustang October 1 or 2 – Bell XP-59A Airacomet prototype Kyushu K11W Shiragiku ("White Chrysanthemum")...
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    features of the W.2/500. Whittle also toured the Bell Aircraft, and the three Bell XP-59A Airacomets, a twin-engine fighter powered by the General Electric...
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  • overran the launch site before the Natters could be used. Two Bell P-59A-1-BE Airacomets of the 29th Fighter Squadron, 412th Fighter Group at Muroc Army...
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    Japanese A6M Zero fighter and the revolutionary, jet propelled Bell YP–59A Airacomet. By 1945, Guyton had logged more than 650 hours testing Corsairs...
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