BACKGROUND IN the early stages of World War II the U.S. Navy used the Lockheed PV-1 (Ventura) in considerable quantities as a land-based patrol plane for anti-submarine and anti-surface vessel patrol and attack. Inasmuch as the PV-1 was the first high speed land based patrol aeroplane used by the U.S. Navy, and realizing that its aero-dynamic configuration grew out of the commercial Lockheed Lodestar, it can be understood that its tactical utility was a compromise.


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    Title :

    The Development of the Lockheed P2Y Neptune


    Subtitle :

    A Paper by a Senior Engineer of the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation Describing the Evolution of a New Aeroplane


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1950-06-01


    Size :

    7 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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