From nntpa!att.com!Joseph.F.Baugher Thu Jun  2 12:12:24 1994
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From: Joseph.F.Baugher@att.com
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Subject: Bomber Series--Martin XLB-4
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>From Joseph.F.Baugher@att.com


The Martin XLB-4 was a 1926 proposal for an all-metal biplane bomber 
powered by a pair of Pratt & Whitney R-1690 Hornet radials.  The Army 
was reluctant at that stage to experiment with all-metal aircraft, and 
the project never got off the drawing board.  

Sources:

  United States Military Aircraft Since 1909, Gordon Swanborough and
  Peter M. Bowers, Smithsonian, 1989.

  American Combat Planes, Ray Wagner, Third Edition, Doubleday, 1982.


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