1st Edition
Warplane Plus 01 A17 - The Complete History of the Northrop Attack Planes and Its Export Derivatives
164 Pages
by
Lanasta
The Northrop Corporation offered the single engined Gamma 2F attack plane to the US Army Air Corps in October 1934. After modification work this type evolved into the highly innovative A-17 attack aircraft of which 110 aircraft were ordered. Northrop integrated all modern aircraft technologies of the day, such as all metal monocoque construction, two pitch propeller, flaps and dive brakes into... Read more
Jack Northrop’s early aircraft: About Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta, A-17 in US Air Corps Service, 1939 - a year of steady decline, Secretive transfer of aircraft, Panama Canal Zone, Puerto Rico, The A-33, Failed Export to France, Transfer to South Africa, Canada, Export Success, Sweden, Northrop 8A-2 in Argentina, Douglas 8A-3Pin Peruvian service, Douglas 8A-3N for the Dutch “Militaire Luchtvaart”, Iraqi airforce, Sources.
Biography
Authored by Santiago Rivas and Amaru Tincopa plus Nico Braas (1946-2022) who was an author of books on aviation, known for, among others, Convair B-58 Hustler (2013), Boeing B-47 stratojet (2015) and Brewster Buffalo (2013).
Edwin Hoogschagen has been studying Dutch aviation history since the late 1990s and specialises in Fokker types from the interbellum. His main activities are focused on the Fokker G-1 and Fokker C.5. Since 2001, he has been a member of the Fokker G-1 establishment and, from 2007 onwards, a committee member.
