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NORTH AMERICAN MITCHELL I American Bomber Old MonoplaneWW2 Old B/W Post card. Valentine's Aircraft Recognition Cards. The Third-Class Proficiency Test Series. The North American Mitchell I. American Bomber. Two 1,600 h.p. Wright Double-Row Cyclone R-2600-A5B 14 cylinder two-row air-cooled radial motors. It is compromise between a very fast lightly armed day bomber and the slower heavily defended night bomber. Numbers are in service with the U.S. Army Air Forces, the R.A.F. and with the Russian Air Force. Crew is five and armament is six machine guns mounted in two power operated turrets (dorsal and ventral) and in the wings. Max. bomb load is 2,000 lb. / Recognition Points - Two-motor mid-gull-wing monoplane. Underslung motors project beyond trailing edges of wings. Equal taper on leading and trailing edges of wings which have dihedral from motor macelles. Twin angular, outrigged fins and rudders on tailplane, mounted high with all taper on leading edge. Second World War.Publisher: Valentine & Sons Ltd.
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