| #3786887 in Books | 2011-05-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 11.02 x.31 x8.50l,.78 | File Name: 158007202X | 146 pages
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Good Book for aviation enthusiasts|By R. hickman|This book covers the last hurrah of large piston aircraft, a corner of aviation history that is overlooked, as jets were coming into fashion when these two planes were produced. Both aircraft took the largest available piston engines and installed them into the smallest, most streamlined airframe. The results were amazingly fast
The photos in this edition are black and white. Still the fastest multi-engine piston aircraft ever flown, the Republic XR-12 and its competitor, the Hughes XF-11, were well ahead of their time in 1946. Envisioned as a long-range photo-reconnaissance aircraft with a top speed of more than 450 mph, the Republic XR-12 also offered near jet-like performance for the world's airlines with a 44-passenger commercial version named the Rainbow. Using original Republic photos, da...
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