• The Boeing Y1B-20 (Boeing 316) was designed as an improvement on the Boeing XB-15. It was slightly larger than its predecessor, and was intended to use...
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    Flying Fortress List of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress variants Boeing Y1B-20 Boeing B-29 Superfortress Boeing KB-29 Superfortress Boeing XB-39 Superfortress...
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    update the XB-15 to make the slightly larger Y1B-20, again using four Wright Twin Cyclones as with the Boeing 314, but the Secretary of War, Harry Hines...
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    faster than the Y1B-17. When testing was completed, the Y1B-17A was reconfigured as a B-17A. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Boeing B-17B. The B-17B...
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    airframe's strength, was upgraded by Boeing with exhaust-driven General Electric turbo-superchargers, and designated Y1B-17A. Designed by Sanford Moss, engine...
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  • B20 (redirect from B-20)
    Blackburn B-20, a 1940 experimental aircraft Boeing Y1B-20, A Boeing experimental heavy bomber Douglas A-20 Havoc, designated the ZB-20 at the end of...
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    Aviation portal Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Boeing XB-15 Boeing Y1B-20 Convair B-36 Related lists List of bomber aircraft List of aircraft...
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    The Douglas Y1B-7 was a 1930s American bomber aircraft. It was the first US monoplane given the B- 'bomber' designation. The monoplane was more practical...
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  • XB-1 Douglas Y1B-7 Fokker XB-8 Boeing Y1B-9 Douglas YB-11 Martin XB-13 Martin XB-14 Boeing XB-15 Martin XB-16 Douglas XB-19 Boeing Y1B-20 North American...
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    funds remaining for the B-15 be applied to the development of a single Boeing Y1B-20, a design improvement of the B-15 with more powerful engines. Instead...
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    Gunner accompanies Jim on a test flight of a new bomber (a Y1B-17, a pre-production Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress prototype). Upon reaching 30,000 feet...
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    20th Bomb Squadron (redirect from 20 BS)
    new Boeing Y1B-17 four-engine heavy bomber. Twelve Y1B-17s were delivered to the 2d Bombardment Group for evaluation. At this time, the dozen Y1B-17s...
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    Major General Oscar Westover, to substitute a single Boeing Y1B-20 (an advanced design of the Boeing B-15) for two B-15s ordered for Project A, the development...
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  • “checklist”. 7 December 1936 First Y1B-17, 36-149, c/n 1973, first flown 2 December, makes rough landing at Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington, on third...
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    Avro Manchester Blériot 127 Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Bréguet 410 Bristol Bombay Curtiss B-2 Condor Dornier Do 11 Douglas Y1B-7 Douglas B-18 Bolo Farman...
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  • Skyhawk (1954) Douglas A-20 Havoc (1938) Douglas A-26 Invader (1942) Douglas A-33 (1941) Douglas A2D Skyshark (1950) Douglas Y1B-7, B-7, O-35 (1931) Douglas...
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    c. 1931–1936, included Y1B-9 during period 1932–1936 Consolidated squadron In addition to B-10, B-17, and B-18, included A-20, XB-15, and B-23, during...
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    260 lb (1,025 kg) Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Boeing Y1B-9 Tupolev SB Related lists List of bomber aircraft List of military aircraft...
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  • Retired 90 Douglas B-18 Bolo medium bomber 1935 retired 1946 350 Douglas Y1B-7 heavy bomber 1931 retired prototype 8 Fokker XB-8 heavy bomber 1929 retired...
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  • Project 0 Douglas XTB2D Skypirate US Torpedo bomber 1945 Prototype 2 Douglas Y1B-7 US Heavy bomber 1931 Prototype 8 EADS-CASA C295MP Spain Maritime patrol...
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    Curtiss B-2 Condor, Keystone B-4, Keystone B-6, Douglas Y1B-7 and YB-10 bombers; the Boeing P-12 and P-6E fighters; the Curtiss A-12 Shrike; Bellanca...
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    He then was given a leading role in the operational development of the Boeing Y1B-9 twin engine bombers which pioneered high altitude bombing techniques...
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    contemporary, the Consolidated B-24 Liberator. The first pre-production Y1B-17 Fortress was delivered to the 2d Bombardment Group, Langley Field, Virginia...
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  • selecting flaps "up". This was the first fatality in the type. 18 December Boeing Y1B-17 Flying Fortress, 36–157, c/n 1981, formerly of the 2d Bomb Group, Langley...
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  • Army Air Corps orders 13 Boeing Y1B-17 Flying Fortresses, previously known by the manufacturer's designation, Model 299. January 20 – Italian troops take...
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  • feet of water. 7 December First Boeing Y1B-17, 36–149, c/n 1973, first flown 2 December, makes rough landing at Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington, on third...
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    attacks against the U.S. on 11 September 2001, group elements, including the 20 Bomb Sq, deployed to the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. On 7...
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  • involved in a P-12 mid-air collision over Hemet on 14 April 1933. 25 June Boeing Y1B-9A, 32-307, c/n 1675, '190', of the 49th Bombardment Squadron, departs...
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