Bell YFM-1 Airacuda

Bell YFM-1 Airacuda adalah pesawat tempur berat Amerika, dikembangkan oleh Bell Aircraft Corporation selama pertengahan 1930-an.

Itu adalah pesawat militer pertama yang diproduksi oleh Bell. Awalnya ditunjuk "Bell Model 1", Airacuda yang pertama terbang pada tanggal 1 September 1937.

Airacuda adalah jawabannya Bell Aircraft untuk sebuah pesawat "bomber destroyer".

Referensi

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Pranala luar

• Bell YFM-1 Airacuda.
• YFM-1 Manual T.O. 01-110HA-1 Handbook of Instructions of Operations and Flight Instructions for the Models YFM-1 and YFM-1B Multi-Place Fighter Airplane (1940 dated)