JOE,
     In a message dated 03-26-98 you wrote ...
>         Back about 1940 the U.S.Navy had a plane with two radial engines
>         mounted on a wing that was mounted on the nose of the plane,
>         about 1/3 of the wing projected in front of the plane. I think
>         it was the comic strip 'Blackhawks' that used it. Can anyone
>         tell about this plane, it was a beauty. Did it go into
>         production ???
   I think you are speaking of the Grumann XF-5 "Sky Rocket". Only
 one was ever built.  I have a couple of very poor pictures of it.
 It looks like an "Ironing Board" with engines on one side and
 fuselage on the other...
   I posted an article on it some time ago..
   -=*  Jim Sanders  *=-
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