united states army air service

Between 1919 and 1927 the Air Service's Engineering Division at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, was responsible for the solicitation of bids for Army aircraft designs. The Engineering Division released Type Specifications for an aircraft design and then expected the contractors to return a set of...

Following WWI, Air Corps planners saw the need for a ground attack aircraft, which was armored and carried a 37 mm cannon and eight .30 caliber machine guns. This resulted in the GA-1. Six aircraft were built: 1. Boeing GA-1 (1920) 2. Orenco IL-1 (1921) (Also known as a Model E) 3. Junkers...

I am trying to identify which monoplane aircraft were flown by the U.S. Army Air Service during its brief 1918-1926 existence in a largely biplane era. So far, I have come up with two: --Fokker T-2 transport/ambulance --Verville-Sperry R-3 racer Can anyone think of any more? Cheers...

Aeromarine Plane & Motor Co., and principal of Aeromarine Airways, developed training aircraft for the US Navy during WWI. After the war they attempted to capitalize on a number of Curtiss HS-2L and F-5L surplus seaplanes by converting them into civilian 'aerial yachts' for their airline...

I can't remember where I read about it. The story was in the end of World War I or in the early 1920s in the USA a very heavy bomb was designed, build and test. But the plane, for which this bomb was designed, never get into the service. Only after many years they build next bomber capable for...

I finally got the microfilm in the mail of all four volumes of this study; and had them scanned by a local company. First up, the magnificient maidien known as the Valkyrie: Reading further; North American was very dead set against Active Defense in any form for the B-70; which isn't that...