Fokker XHB-2
Proposed American heavy bomber
Fokker XHB-2 | |
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Role | Heavy bomber Type of aircraft |
National origin | United States |
Manufacturer | Fokker Aircraft Corporation of America |
Status | project only |
Number built | 0 |
The Fokker XHB-2 was a proposed heavy bomber envisaged by the Fokker Aircraft Corporation of America in 1927. The leadership of the United States Army Air Corps found the XHB-2 design too radical to be a real proposition, so the design remained a paper project only.[1][2]
Specifications
Data from [3]
General characteristics
- Crew: 5
- Length: 71 ft 3 in (21.72 m)
- Wingspan: 108 ft 4 in (33.02 m)
- Wing area: 1,600 sq ft (150 m2)
- Empty weight: 12,054 lb (5,468 kg)
- Gross weight: 24,487 lb (11,107 kg)
- Fuel capacity: 590 US gal (490 imp gal; 2,200 L)
- Powerplant: 2 × Packard 2A-2540 12-cylinder V-cylinder piston engines, 787 hp (587 kW) each
- Propellers: metal propellers
Performance
See also
Related development
- Fokker LB-2
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