NORTH AMERICAN NA-16/AT-6/SNJ - VOLUME 11
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Characteristics
| ISBN-13 | 9780933424760 |
| ISBN-10 | 0-933424-76-0 |
| Book cover finish(es) | Perfect paperback |
| Condition | Like New |
| Author(s) | Dan Hagedorn |
| Publisher | Specialty Press Publishers and Wholesalers |
| Number of pages | 100 |
| Published date | 1997 |
| Language(s) | English |
| Collection / Series | Warbird Tech Series Volume 11 |
| Size | 21 x 27,5 x 0,8 cm |
| Categorie(s) | • AVIATION MILITAIRE • APPAREILS - CONSTRUCTEURS |
Description
The NA-16 was the brainchild of J. H. “Dutch” Kindelberger, J. L. Atwood and H. R. Raynor, based on a crude sketch which NAA described as “a historical document in the annals of North American.” Kindelberger and Atwood left Douglas to join NAA in July 1934, and the NA-16 is reputed to have been designed and built in something like nine weeks, so the first flight on April 1, 1935, with Eddie Allen at the controls at Dundalk gives some measure of the gestation period of the design. Contrary to popular misconceptions, however, the original, open-cockpit NA-16 was not the configuration tested in the Basic Trainer Competition at Wright Field. The official Air Corps Engineering Section Memorandum Report, Serial Number 4110 dated May 27, 1935, entitled “Performance Test of North American Aviation Basic Training Airplane NA-16, Ident. No. X-2080,” definitely describes the aircraft with the “cockpit cabins closed.”