B-10 Martin Monoplane Bomber B10 USAAC Airplane Model

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B-10 Martin Monoplane Bomber B10 USAAC Airplane Model Hand-carved and Hand-Painted Mahogany Model In Stock and Ready to Ship! Don't wait 3-4 weeks for inferior models! We stock and ship all our models from our Arizona Warehouse, not from Asia! Most orders ship the same day! B-10 Martin Bomber, USAAC Mahogany Desktop Model Plane: The B-10, the first of the modern-day all-metal monoplane bombers to be produced in quantity, featured such innovations as internal bomb storage, retractable landing gear, a rotating gun turret, and enclosed cockpits.The B10 bomber is half faster than its contemporary biplane bombers. As the Air Corps ordered 121 Martin B-10s from 1933 to 1936, the Martin bomber was the largest procurement of bomber aircraft since World War I. The Martin B-10 entered the service in June 1934. The Martin B10 was also one of the mass produced bombers during its time. The B-10 bomber served as the mainframe for the B-12, B-13, B-14, A-15 and O-45 designations. As the Martin B-10 design was released, it made all existing bombers completely superseded. Gen. Henry H. Arnold called the Martin B-10 as the air power wonder of its day. He led ten B-10 bombers on an 8,290 miles flight from Washington DC to Fairbanks , Alaska and back in 1934. The fast capability of the Martin B-10 convinced the US Army Air Corps planners that bombers read more