Kaiser Fleetwings XBTK-1 (Naval Fighters Number Forty-Eight)
Bob Kowalski, Steve Ginter - Kaiser Fleetwings XBTK-1
Ginter Books | 1999 | ISBN: 0942612485 | English | 34 pages | PDF | 32.01 MB
Naval Fighters Number Forty-Eight
Ginter Books | 1999 | ISBN: 0942612485 | English | 34 pages | PDF | 32.01 MB
Naval Fighters Number Forty-Eight
Bob Kowalski continues the saga of the Bomber Torpedo (BT) program and the similar Scout Bomber (SB) program with the obscure story of the Kaiser Fleetwings XBTK-1. The story started in Naval Fighters Number Twenty-Four Martin AM-1/-1Q Mauler and continued with Naval Fighters Number Thirty, Douglas XSB2D-1 and BTD-1 "Destroyer". This was followed by Naval Fighters Number Thirty-Six, Douglas XTB2D-1 Sky-pirate and now the XBTK-1. It is our intention to also cover the two Curtiss entrants, the XBTC-2 and XBT2C-1. This history is based on information contained in the 1944 Detail Specification SD-367 and addendum number one which was supplemented with Naval Air Test Center BIS Report 2180.1 (9 September 1946 -2 June 1947) and flight and maintenance manuals. Terms used in the story are terms used at the time the XTBK-1 was built. These terms may have subsequently undergone refinement, for example the term "heat" instead of the "thermal" anti-icing system.