Engineering:Fokker XHB-2
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Short description: Proposed American heavy bomber
| Fokker XHB-2 | |
|---|---|
| Role | Heavy bomber |
| National origin | United States |
| Manufacturer | Fokker Aircraft Corporation of America |
| Status | project only |
| Number built | 0 |
The Fokker XHB-2 was a proposed heavy bomber envisaged by the Fokker Aircraft Corporation of America in 1927. The leadership of the United States Army Air Corps found the XHB-2 design too radical to be a real proposition, so the design remained a paper project only.[1][2]
Specifications
Data from [3]
General characteristics
- Crew: 5
- Length: 71 ft 3 in (21.72 m)
- Wingspan: 108 ft 4 in (33.02 m)
- Wing area: 1,600 sq ft (150 m2)
- Empty weight: 12,054 lb (5,468 kg)
- Gross weight: 24,487 lb (11,107 kg)
- Fuel capacity: 590 US gal (490 imp gal; 2,200 l)
- Powerplant: 2 × Packard 2A-2540 12-cylinder V-cylinder piston engines, 787 hp (587 kW) each
Performance
See also
Related development
- Fokker LB-2
References
- ↑ "Fokker-Atlantic XHB-2". http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_bombers/hb2.html.
- ↑ Wagner, Ray. American Combat Planes of the 20th Century: A Comprehensive Reference. Reno, Nevada: Jack Bacon & Co, 2004. ISBN:0-930083-17-2.
- ↑ "Atlantic XHB-2". http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_atlantic_XHB-2.html.
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