
Варианты
- Northrop - Gamma / A-13 / A-16 - 1932 - США
- Northrop - A-17 / 8A Nomad - 1934 - США
A-17 / 8A Nomad
Семейство небронированных штурмовиков. Одномоторные цельнометаллические свободнонесущие монопланы с убирающимся шасси (у A-17, 8A-1 и 8A-2 шасси не убиралось, колеса в обтекателях). Семейство было создано в КБ "Нортроп корпорейшн" под руководством Дж. Нортропа на базе скоростного почтового самолета "Гамма" 2. Опытный штурмовик "Гамма" 2F впервые поднялся в воздух 6 октября 1934 г.
Серийное производство штурмовиков A-17 было начато в декабре 1935 г. на заводе "Нортроп" в Эль-Сегундо (впоследствии отделение Эль-Сегундо фирмы "Дуглас эйркрафт"). Самолеты семейства 8A строились также в Швеции, на заводе ASJA в Линчепинге. Всего было изготовлено 436 экз. в США и 103 экз. в Швеции.
Экипаж самолета - 2 чел. Двигатель и вооружение - в зависимости от модификации.
Самолеты семейства 8A состояли на вооружении в США с 1936 г., в Аргентине и Перу - с 1938 г., в Ираке, Швеции и
Нидерландах - с 1939 г., в Великобритании, Канаде и Южно-Африканском Союзе - с 1940 г.
Основные серийные модификации:
- A-17 с мотором R-1535-11, неубирающееся шасси с колесами в обтекателях, вооружение 5x7,62, бомбы до 544 кг;
- A-17A с мотором R-1535-13, убирающееся шасси, вооружение как у A-17;
- 8A-1 (В5A), вариант A-17 с мотором "Меркьюри" XXIV, строился в Швеции, вооружение 3x8, бомбы до 544 кг;
- 8A-2 с мотором R-1820-G3, экспортный вариант A-17 для Аргентины; неубирающееся шасси, вооружение 2x12,7+3x7,62;
- 8A-3P с мотором R-1820-G3, экспортный вариант A-17A для Перу;
- 8A-3N с мотором R-1830-S3C-G, экспортный вариант A-17A для Нидерландов;
- 8A-4 с мотором R-1820-G103, экспортный вариант A-17A для Ирака;
- 8A-5 (A-33) с мотором R-1820-87, экспортный вариант A-17 для Норвегии, вооружение 2x12,7+6x7,62, бомбы до 816 кг.
Выпуск самолетов 8A был прекращен в США в январе 1941 г., в Швеции - в середине того же года. В США с 1939 г. A-17 и A-17A передавались для учебных целей. Часть A-17 была направлена в страны Британского содружества как "Номад" I после капитального ремонта и установки двигателей R-1830-S2A5-G.
Первый случай боевого использования штурмовиков семейства 8A - оборона Нидерландов от немецкого вторжения в мае 1940 г. Они несколько дней бомбили и обстреливали войска противника. Иракские самолеты участвовали в налетах на английскую авиабазу Хаббания во время мятежа Рашида Али в мае 1941 г. и практически все были уничтожены английской авиацией. Перуанцы использовали свои 8A-3P в войне с Эквадором в 1941 г. В Англии, Канаде, ЮАС "номады" служили только как учебные. В Швеции B5A сняли с вооружения в 1944 г.
A-17A||
Размах:||14,58 м
Длина:||9,65 м
Моторы, количество х мощность:||1 x 825 л.с.
Взлетная масса, максимальная:||3320 кг
Максимальная скорость:||352 км/ч
Практический потолок:||5900 м
Дальность:||1170 км
Описание:
- A-17 / 8A Nomad
- Northrop A-13, A-16, A-17 и A-33
Фотографии
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
A-17A of the 90th AS, Barksdale Field. Squadron commander’s aircraft. A-17A of the Materiel Division, Wright Field.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
A-17A of the 90th Attack Squadron during the 1938 war games. Camouflage was applied with water-based colours. The fuselage bands denote the commander's aircraft.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
Canadian Nomad 3513 of 3 Training Command.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-05 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (1)
The Northrop Model 2F featured a semi-retractable landing gear and a revised cockpit arrangement. This aircraft later became the first A-17.
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Мировая Авиация 208
Серийный вариант A-17 имел модифицированные обтекатели шасси.
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Flight 1937-10 / Flight
Flight of fancy - strange duck-like shadows cast by a formation of U.S. Army Northrops
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Flight 1937-05 / Flight
GOING HOLLYWOOD: Northrop attack machines of the U.S. Army Air Corps (Pratt and Whitney Twin Wasp Junior engine with gilled cowling) over Californian orange groves. These machines are intended primarily for ground strafing and apart from one free and four fixed Brownings are equipped for the dispensation of chemicals.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-05 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (1)
An A-17 formation flying over March Field in 1938.
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Jane's All the World Aircraft 1938 / 02 - The progress of the world in military aviation during the year 1937-38
A Formation of Northrop A.17 Attack Monoplanes of the U.S. Army Air Corps.
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Flight 1937-10 / Flight
Lethal Trails: Northrop A.17 attack machines demonstrate gas dispensation
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Flight 1937-11 / Flight
"Doughboys" scurry away as a Northrop attack machine simulates the laying of a lethal trail during manoeuvres. A defensive Boeing P.26A fighter is worrying the attacker, but must be at a great disadvantage over home ground.
Другие самолёты на фотографии: Boeing P-26 Peashooter - США - 1932
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Flight 1938-06 / Flight
ATTACK: Two Douglas parasol observation monoplanes and a Northrop attack machine of the U.S. Army Air Corps go forward to clear the way for a flock of tanks during combined manoeuvres in Georgia.
Другие самолёты на фотографии: Douglas O-46 - США - 1934
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Air Enthusiast 1998-05 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (1)
The Northrop factory with several A-17s awaiting delivery to the Army Air Corps on June 6, 1936.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-05 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (1)
A Northrop A-17 in aluminium finish in 1941. As the tail designator indicates, this one belonged to the 45th Air Base Squadron. Noteworthy are the anti-glare panel and the propeller blades painted matt black on the reverse.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-05 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (1)
Photographed during a stopover at Felts Field, Spokane, Washington, on March 11, 1943, A-17 35-121. Note that wheel trousers had been deleted causing potential confusion with an A-17A.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-05 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (1)
A Northrop A-17 carrying the Army’s Command and Staff School Insignia. The wheel and cowling chequerboards are blue and yellow. Note that the aircraft has no gunsight.
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Моделист-Конструктор Ближние разведчики, корректировщики и штурмовики Второй мировой войны
Штурмовик A-17 имел неубирающееся шасси с характерными обтекателями колес
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Air Enthusiast 1998-05 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (1)
A-17A 36-169 equipped with smoke generator pods under the wings. Intended to interfere with anti-aircraft fire, the smoke screens laid by the A-17s proved to be of little effect during manoeuvres.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-05 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (1)
From March 1941, the surviving A-17s began to be painted in olive drab and neutral grey camouflage. This one belonged to the Sacramento Air Depot.
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Air Enthusiast 1972-08 / H.Taylor - The Battle and the Nomad /Viewed from the Cockpit/
The R.A.F. received sixty-one Northrop Nomad attack-bombers, sixty of which were later sent to South Africa.
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Моделист-Конструктор Ближние разведчики, корректировщики и штурмовики Второй мировой войны
A-17A из 95-й штурмовой эскадрильи на маневрах 1938 г.
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Flight 1937-04 / Flight
A Northrop attack monoplane being armed from a special tractor-drawn sledge (note two of the four wing-mounted Brownings);
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
A total of 61 ex-French aircraft were handed over by the RAF as Nomad Is. AS441, shown here, was the second of these aircraft. Most of them were delivered to the SAAF. Note the exhaust stack.
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Air Enthusiast 1972-08 / H.Taylor - The Battle and the Nomad /Viewed from the Cockpit/
The Northrop A-17A, named Nomad by the RAF, saw no operational service during its limited period in Britain, and virtually all the 61 taken on strength were shipped to South Africa in 1941.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
Canadian Nomads were mainly used as advanced trainers with Bombing & Gunnery Schools.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-05 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (1)
A line of A-17As belonging to 3rd Attack Group seen at Kelly Field. The aircraft are fitted with smoke dispensers.
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Flight 1938-05 / Flight
AMERICAN SHOWMANSHIP: The mass formation is led by Northrop A.17.A attack machines, followed by Douglas B.18s, which may be regarded as the bomber derivative of the commercial D.C.2; Picture is from the M.G.-M. film Test Pilot, which has its premiere at the Empire Theatre, London, tomorrow (Friday).
Другие самолёты на фотографии: Douglas B-18 Bolo - США - 1935
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Air Enthusiast 1998-05 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (1)
Northrop A-17As from 73rd AS peeling off. Note how the designation ‘AQ28’ is repeated on the port wing of the aircraft.
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Flight 1939-03 / Flight
So low do attack machines fly that they must drop their fragmentation bombs by parachute to avoid the explosions. The machines shown are of the standard Douglas (Northrop) type.
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Flight 1939-03 / Flight
Spraying a thin solution of whitewash to simulate a gas attack, Douglas (Northrop) machines of the U.S. Army Air Corps demonstrate one of the functions of an attack squadron.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
One of the two Bristol Pegasus XII engined Model 8A-1 built at El Segundo for the Swedish Air Force. A full year after the Douglas take-over, the trademark on the fin still reads Northrop.
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Jane's All the World Aircraft 1938 / 03 - All the world's aeroplanes
The Northrop 8A-1 Two-seat Attack-Bomber Monoplane (875 h.p. Bristol "Pegasus" engine).
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Aviation Historian 40 / L.Hellstrom - Waiting in the wings
The Danish pilots in Sweden initially received training on Douglas B 5B bombers built under licence in Sweden. The type was based on a design by Northrop, the latter company becoming part of Douglas in 1937. Aircraft “61” was used as a training and liaison aircraft at F 4 Wing in 1944 and was probably flown by the Danes.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
ASJA-built B5s were recognisable by the front-mounted antenna mast and bubble canopy.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
A Norwegian Douglas Model 8A-5N during reception flight. This variant was the most powerful of all Model 8s, easily recognisable by the large engine cowling with its upper air intake.
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Air Pictorial 1987-09 / S.Stenersen, B.Olsen - Little Norway: Training Norwegian airmen in Canada in World War II (2)
The Norwegian training centre at Island Airport, Toronto, ready for an inspection in 1941. Seven Douglas 8A-5s can be seen with three Fairchild Cornells to the left
Другие самолёты на фотографии: Fairchild PT-19 / PT-23 / PT-26 Cornell - США - 1939
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Air Pictorial 1987-09 / S.Stenersen, B.Olsen - Little Norway: Training Norwegian airmen in Canada in World War II (2)
Future fighter ace Svein Heglund (right) planning a training flight with a student pilot. Posted to No. 331 (Norwegian) Squadron in early 1942, Heglund went on to become the top-scoring Norwegian fighter pilot in W.W.II, with 16 1/3 confirmed victories, was awarded the D.S.O., D.F.C. and Bar in addition to the highest Norwegian decorations, and after the war became head of the R. Norwegian A.F.'s Air Material Command, retiring with the rank of Major-General
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
The USAAF operated ex-Norwegian aircraft under the designation A-33. This one, belonging to an unknown unit, was photographed at Moffett Field, California, on March 7, 1942.
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Aviation Historian 31 / A.Tincopa - Wings over Peru
Fitted with a 1,200 h.p. Wright GR-1820 Cyclone engine and machine-gun gondolas under the wings, the 8A-5 was the most powerful and heavily armed variant of the Northrop/Douglas series of attack aircraft. Norway’s 8A-5s became A-33-DEs in USAAF service, an example of which is seen here at Kelly Field, where they were stored.
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Моделист-Конструктор Ближние разведчики, корректировщики и штурмовики Второй мировой войны
Трехместный штабной A-17AS являлся переделкой типа A-17, 1935 г.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-05 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (1)
A-17AS flown by Major General Westover. Note ‘1’ and two stars on the tail. Arnold’s aircraft had one star and was number ‘2’. The modified canopy is clearly visible
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
A batch of 13 A-33s were delivered to Peru by the USAAF. Camouflaged example at la Palmas Air Base, Lima, in 1959. It is most certainly one of the very last flying aircraft of the type.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
Peru ordered ten Model 8A-3Ps, this example photographed before delivery on December 12,1938. Note that the Northrop insignia has been retained on the fin but it reads Douglas.
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Aviation Historian 31 / A.Tincopa - Wings over Peru
Three of the 8A-3Ps await their formation delivery flight to Peru on the tarmac at El Segundo in May 1939. The first of the Peruvian 8A-3Ps to be completed made its maiden flight on November 21, 1938, and the ten were given c/ns 412-421. The 8A traced its heritage back to the Northrop Gamma 2F, developed into the USAAC’s A-17.
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Aviation Historian 31 / A.Tincopa - Wings over Peru
A line-up of Peruvian training aircraft at Las Palmas airfield, Lima, in 1956. Nearest the camera is an 8A-3P, with an 8A-5, fitted with machine-gun gondolas, alongside.
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Aviation Historian 31 / A.Tincopa - Wings over Peru
Another rare image, this time of 8A-3Ps at Capitan Victor Montes airfield near Talara, in December 1942. These 8A-3Ps have not yet been painted in the Sea Blue finish; the aircraft were repainted in batches so as not to remove the entire unit from service at once. All had been repainted by the time of the arrival of the 8A-5s, however.
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Aviation Historian 31 / A.Tincopa - Wings over Peru
Four of the five 8A-3Ps that set off on the CAP’s five-week tour of South America in 1940, dubbed “Los Zorros”, during their visit to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The fifth was forced to return to Lima after damaging a wingtip while taxying in Ecuador at the beginning of the tour.
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Aviation Historian 31 / A.Tincopa - Wings over Peru
President Bustamante y Rivero reviews the aircraft and personnel of 31 EIA on October 6, 1948, after their participation in action against rebel sailors of the Peruvian Navy during the “October Revolution” of October 3-5. Before the month was out, the President had been ousted in a coup led by Army General Manuel Odria.
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Aviation Historian 31 / A.Tincopa - Wings over Peru
The CAP’S 8As were used extensively during the conflict with Ecuador, often as bombers; here an 8A-3P is rearmed with fragmentation bombs before another bombing sortie from Tumbes forward airfield on the Peru-Ecuador border, in late July 1941. The 8A was also fitted with a pair of Browning 0-3in machine-guns in each wing.
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Aviation Historian 31 / A.Tincopa - Wings over Peru
Douglas 8As of 31 EIA taxy out for take-off at Teniente Coronel Pedro Ruiz Gallo airfield in Chiclayo in July 1947.
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Aviation Historian 31 / A.Tincopa - Wings over Peru
With only the red, white and red vertical bars of the rudder providing any clues as to its intended destination, one of Peru’s original ten 8A-3Ps, all built at Douglas’s El Segundo factory, is test-flown over the California coast in late 1938 or early 1939. Seven of the 8As were transported to Peru by ship and three were delivered by air.
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Aviation Historian 31 / A.Tincopa - Wings over Peru
Showing the type's distinctive perforated flaps for dive-bombing, one of Peru’s initial batch of Douglas 8A-3Ps undergoes flight testing in the USA before delivery.
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Aviation Historian 31 / A.Tincopa - Wings over Peru
Wearing the original bare-metal finish in which the aircraft were delivered and their somewhat long-winded unit codes - XXXI for the Escuadron; 92 for the Escadrille and 1 for the individual aircraft - a formation of 8As patrols over Peru’s northern coastal region in July 1941, at the time of the conflict with Ecuador, also known as Guerra del 41 (The War of ’41).
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Aviation Historian 31 / A.Tincopa - Wings over Peru
For the 4,700-mile (7,600km) delivery flight from Los Angeles to Lima, the three 8A-3Ps were given the serials BO-1G to BO-3G, the first of which is seen here during the flight on June 4, 1939, with Lt-Cdr Armando Revoredo Iglesias at the controls and Capt Jorge Virgil Morey in the rear seat as radio operator/flight engineer.
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Aviation Historian 31 / A.Tincopa - Wings over Peru
Although of poor quality, this rare photograph shows the overall matt Sea Blue finish applied to the 8A-3Ps from April 1942, and following this machine’s assignment to the newly activated 23 EIA. Note the use of Arabic numerals instead of Roman, which were phased out in 1942.
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Aviation Historian 31 / A.Tincopa - Wings over Peru
In November 1943 a total of 13 refurbished Douglas 8A-5s, along with ten Curtiss Hawk 75As, were flown from Texas to Las Palmas, where this line-up of 8A-5s was photographed shortly after their arrival in November 1943. The aircraft were apparently ferried in an Olive Drab scheme, as seen here, but were repainted in a camouflage scheme early in 1944.
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Aviation Historian 31 / A.Tincopa - Wings over Peru
Showing the 8A-5’s armament of four 0-3in machine-guns within the wings, a pair of underwing gondolas each containing a 0-5in machinegun, plus a 0-3in machine-gun on a flexible mount in the observer’s cockpit, this example is seen in the Dark Green, Dark Earth and Light Gray camouflage scheme applied from early 1944, and with a squadron badge below the front cockpit.
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Aviation Historian 31 / A.Tincopa - Wings over Peru
Douglas 8A-5 serial 276 at Las Palmas in the late 1940s, by which time markings were minimal, with a small roundel aft of the cockpit and the aircraft’s 200-series serial aft of that. Like the rest of the aircraft (apart from the black anti-glare panel on the forward fuselage), the rudder is bare-metal and no longer sports the original red, white and red stripes.
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Aviation Historian 31 / A.Tincopa - Wings over Peru
With the rear cowling of its Wright Cyclone engine removed, 8A-5 serial 266 of the re-formed 31 EIA undergoes maintenance at Vitor, Arequipa province, in February 1948. The year would prove to be another busy one for the CAP’s 8As, with operations in support of the government to extinguish a right-wing rebellion in July and two more attempts to overthrow the government in October, the last of which was successful.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
An Argentine Model 8A-2 awaiting delivery. Argentina purchased 30 aircraft and the type was operated until 1955.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
The Argentine Model 8A-2s were camouflaged and operated by the Regimiento de Ataque 3, stationed near Mendoza.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
The Model 8A-3Ns were delivered to the Netherlands in October 1939. Up until the end of the year, they were painted with the Dutch insignia as used from 1920, an inverted orange triangle outlined in black.
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АвиаПарк 2010-03 / В.Кондратьев - Статистика Блицкрига /Дискуссия/
Аэродром Ипенбург по окончании боев: Разбитые десантные "Юнкерсы" и захваченный немцами голландский бомбардировщик "Дуглас" DB-8A
Другие самолёты на фотографии: Junkers Ju.52/3m - Германия - 1931
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
A Dutch Model 8A-3N showing the new national insignia. Nearly all these aircraft were lost during the German attack on May 10, 1940.
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Aviation Historian 37 / L.Andersson - Wings over Baghdad
Designed and developed by the original Northrop company, which became the El Segundo Division of Douglas in 1937, the Douglas 8A was essentially an export version of the Northrop A-17. Iraq ordered 15 for the RIAF in November 1939. THis as-yet-unserialled example is seen at the factory at El Segundo before delivery to Iraq in the summer od 1940.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
The detailed story of the Iraqi Northrops is not known but they were most probably destroyed on the ground by RAF aircraft in 1941.
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Aviation Historian 37 / L.Andersson - Wings over Baghdad
When King Ghazi was killed in a car crash in April 1939, the throne descended to his three-year-old son, Faisal II. Until such time as the latter came of age, Iraq was ruled by his uncle, Abdul Hah, seen here in the Douglas 8A-4 in which he flew from Baghdad to Amman to visit his uncle, the Emir of Transjordan, in August 1942.
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Aeroplane Monthly 1991-10 / ??? - And there's more where this lot came from
A batch of Northrop A-17s in pristine condition, with serial numbers apparently chalked on the rudders - 36-175 in the left foreground. The A-17A was an attack aircraft powered by an 825 h.p. Pratt & Whitney R-1535-13 radial engine. This photograph was taken in June 1940, location unknown.
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Aeroplane Monthly 1976-12 / T.Olausson - Swedish Internees (1)
Four Mosquitoes are visible in this group on the Satends apron in 1945. Also visible are a Northrop 8A-1 (B5) target tug and a Focke-Wulf Fw-44J Steiglitz (Sk-12) trainer, both of the Swedish Air Force. The nearest Mosquito is engineless.
Другие самолёты на фотографии: De Havilland Mosquito F - Великобритания - 1941Focke-Wulf FW.44 Steiglitz - Германия - 1932
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Air Enthusiast 1998-05 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (1)
An A-17 was operated by NACA to investigate the characteristics of laminar flow airfoil sections. During tests, the aircraft retained its original 90th AS markings.
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Aviation Historian 29 / M.Bearman - Going with the Flow?
Northrop A-17 serial 35-122 was fitted with large sleeves on each wing for trials with the laminar-flow wing proposed for Douglas’s C-74 Globemaster. Each was fitted with two-bladed propellers driven by an auxiliary motor to study the effects of swirling airflow. Douglas blamed NACA for “wasting time” on laminar flow development.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-05 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (1)
The first engine cowling experiment conducted by NACA with A-17A 36-184. Needless to say that this cowling resulted in excessive engine temperatures.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-05 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (1)
A-17A 36-184 after modification. Known as the ‘Nose-blower Northrop this aircraft had a spinner with a built-in fan. Results were encouraging but the modification was not introduced on production aircraft.
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Flight 1938-03 / Flight
This photograph - the first closeup to be published of the installation of the Bristol two-row sleeve-valve Hercules in its Northrop A.17 flying test-bed - shows how compactly a unit giving over 1,300 h.p. can be installed. Features to be noted are the single large exhaust outlet, the air intake scoop above the cowling, the controllable cooling gills and the mounting behind the bulkhead for the Bristol remote box for auxiliary drives.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
Pratt & Whitney R-1535-11 Twin Wasp Junior as mounted on the A-17.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
Thanks to the semi-monocoque construction, the fuselage was both light and robust. Fuselage interior behind the rear cockpit. Command cables and pulleys are evident.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
One-piece wing centre section of the A-17. Fuel cells not yet installed.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
The centre wing section was attached to the fuselage by six bolts.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
A-17 fuselage was designed into two halves facilitating assembly and riveting.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
The multicellular wing of the A-17 inherited from the famous Northrop Gamma permitted the easy installation of fuel tanks.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
Underside of the A-17 outer port wing panel. The Curtiss H-75 (P-36) wings featured identical units.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
Port side of the pilot's cockpit showing engine controls and armament panel.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
Starboard side of the pilot’s cockpit showing engine gauges, cowl flaps command and starter pedal.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-09 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (2)
A-17 A gunner’s station. The storage compartment for the machine-gun, with its folding doors on the top of the fuselage, is visible on the right.
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Aviation Historian 31 / A.Tincopa - Wings over Peru
The damage to XXXI-91-2 of No 91 Escadrille is inspected by CAP personnel after a landing mishap at Villa auxiliary airfield in October 1941. That month the conflict with Ecuador drew to a close and the 8As were recalled to Lima, where most had returned by early November
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Aviation Historian 31 / A.Tincopa - Wings over Peru
Having deposited its port mainwheel on the runway after a particularly heavy landing at Las Palmas, 8A-5 serial 276 is inspected by 31 EIA personnel. The damage was deemed to be minimal and the aircraft was swiftly repaired and returned to service within a few days. The type proved itself to be a rugged and dependable asset for the CAP.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-05 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (1)
Northrop A-17A. Key to sectional illustration: 1 - 825hp (615kW) Pratt & Whitney R1535-13. 2 - Oil tank. 3 - Instruments panel. 4 - Rudder pedals. 5 - Engine controls. 6 - Safety harness. 7 - Radio. 8 - Plotting desk. 9 - Engine controls. 10 - Machine gun travel ring. 11 - 0.30 cal flexible machine-gun. 12 - Tail navigation light. 13 - Stainless steel exhaust collector. 14 - Oil cooling radiator. 15 - Engine mount. 16 - Firewall. 17 - Retracting gear crank. 18 - Seat adjustment crank. 19 - Fuel tank. 20 - Rudder pedals. 21 - Detachable joystick. 22 - Safety harness. 23 - Sliding and folding gunner’s seat. 24 - Elevator control pulley. 25 - Rudder control cable. 26 - Elevator control horn. 27 - Tailwheel. 28 - Rudder control horn.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-05 / A.Pelletier - Northrop's Connection (1)
Northrop A-17A.
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