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Here’s What You Need To Remember: The performance was disappointing. Its contemporary airframes were faster and handled better, partially dooming the Ascender’s development. The other factor was the ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: That this plane never entered production is probably for the best. In 1939, the Army put out a call for tenders, asking aircraft manufacturers to design an airframe that ...

Born from the Army Air Corps R40-C push for unconventional fighters, the Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender promised clean aerodynamics, heavy nose armament, and a radical pusher canard layout. When its ...