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Conquering the Southern Plains (Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890) by Peter Cozzens
The Children's Blizzard (P.S.) by David Laskin
Crusader Nation: The United States in Peace and the Great War: 1898-1920 by David Traxel
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At the moment I am doing a search in US Air Mail history to determine if early on (1917 / 1918 ?) in the host of Curtiss Jenny and Standard biplanes a lone [b]L-W-F Tractor Biplane[/b] was used. There are a few hints that one of these tractor biplanes was used for experiment.
It is stated that one exmaple was specially built by the L-W-F factory for evaluation by the Post office. (Internet - Aerofiles site)
On another site is it stated 'However; at one time or another, planes of the following types were used somewhat extensively: Curtiss JN_4_H, with Wright engine, 150 h.p.; Standard JR-1B, with Wright engine, 150 h.p.; Curtiss R-4-L, with Liberty-12 engine, 400 h.p.; Curtiss HA, with Liberty-12 engine; Twin D.H. with two Liberty-6 (Hall Scott) engines, 400 h.p.; Martin mail planes, with two Liberty-12 engines, 800 h.p.; Junker (JL-6) with B.M.W. engine, 200 h.p., and [b]L.W.F. (type V) with Isotta Fraschini 250 h.p. engines[/b].'
As this information is very sketchy, my question is (as you have such a fine collection of books about the subject). Is there any substantial data in your books referring to this elusive machine? May be even a picture ?
I intend to buy a few books about the subject myself, any suggestions where I should start ?
Cheers
Kees Kort [Varese2002 pseudo]
Apeldoorn, Netherlands
posted by Varese2002 at 2:57 am (EST) on Jan 12, 2008