Northrop A-17
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| A-17 Nomad | |
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| Type | Ground attack |
| Manufacturer | Northrop |
| Designed by | Jack Northrop |
| Introduced | 1935 |
| Primary users | U.S. Army Air Corps South African Air Force |
| Developed from | Northrop Gamma |
The Northrop A-17, a development of the Northrop Gamma 2F was a two seat, single engine, monoplane, attack bomber built in 1935 by the Northrop Corporation for the US Army Air Corps. The A-17 was equipped with perforated flaps, had fixed landing gear with partial fairing. It was fitted with an internal fuselage bomb bay that carried fragmentation bombs and well as external bomb racks.
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[edit] Service
In 1939 [1], 93 ex-USAAC aircraft were purchased by France and given Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp engines. Not having been completed before the fall of France, they were taken over by the British Purchasing Commission for the RAF and given the name Nomad. They were assessed as being obsolete and sent to South Africa for use as trainers.
The Republic of China Air Force received a mixed shipment of forty-five Northrop Gamma 2E and A-17 aircraft, along with two C-19 Alpha. The Gamma 2E and A-17 were used extensively in combat to attack Japanese shipping lines at Shanghai by the 1st and 2nd Groups, before being retired from frontline service to training duties.
[edit] Operators
Argentina
Canada
China
France
Iraq
Netherlands
Norway
Peru
South Africa
Sweden
United Kingdom
United States
[edit] Specifications (A-17)
This aircraft article is missing some (or all) of its specifications. If you have a source, you can help Wikipedia by adding them.General characteristics
- Crew: two (pilot and gunner)
- Length: 32 ft (9.8 m)
- Wingspan: 47 ft 9 in (14.6 m)
- Height: ()
- Max takeoff weight: 2,420 lb (1,100 kg)
- Powerplant: 1× Pratt & Whitney R-1535-13 Twin Wasp Jr double row radial air-cooled engine, 750 hp (560 kW)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 206 mph (332 km/h)
- Cruise speed: 170 mph (274 km/h)
- Range: 700 miles (1,127 km)
- Service ceiling: 19,400 ft (5,900 m)
Armament
- Four 0.3 in. fixed forward machine guns
- One 0.3 in trainable rear machine gun
- Internal bay for bombs
- External wing bomb racks (total bomb load 544 kg (1200 lb)
[edit] References
- ^ www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/baugher_us/a17-02.html Northrop A-17 - Chapter 2
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