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Boeing’s P-26 Peashooter Fighter Plane was Far Deadlier Than It Looked

When it comes to the P-26 Peashooter, you can’t judge its prowess by looks alone. As one proverb goes, “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” If one were to metaphorically apply that truism to combat ...
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Some of the Old, Some of the New: Boeing’s P-26 “Peashooter”

The first all-metal low-wing monoplane pursuit aircraft of the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was a pioneering but also transitional aircraft, and, along with serving stateside, saw service in ...
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P-26 [history of the famous Boeing P-26 "Peashooter"] by Edward Maloney and Frank Ryan

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Boeing P-26A Peashooter

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Boeing P-26A of the mid-to-late 1930s introduced the concept of the high-performance, all-metal monoplane fighter ...