On this day in aviation history, 83 years ago (July 19, 1942), the Curtiss XP-55 Ascender made its first flight. Designated as the CW-24 by Curtiss-Wright, the Ascender was a prototype fighter ...

Click to open image viewer. Not long before America declared war on the Japanese in 1941, the U. S. Army Air Corps sponsored three radical and unorthodox fighter aircraft designs. Pusher power plants ...

The Curtiss XP-55 Ascender was a radical 1940s fighter concept, featuring a swept-wing canard, rear-mounted engine, pusher propeller, and a jettisonable propeller for pilot safety, proposed in ...

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