The Bell P-59 Airacomet is a single-seat, twin jet-engine fighter aircraft that was designed and built by Bell Aircraft during World War II. It was the first jet produced in the United States.

Designed and built in great secrecy during World War II, the P-59 was America's first jet aircraft. Although it never saw combat, the Airacomet provided training for USAAF personnel and invaluable data for the development of higher performance jet airplanes.

The Bell P-59 Airacomet was the first American jet-powered airplane in the United States. It was a top secret project that wasn't announced to the general public until 1943 and only after it had completed one-hundred flights.

2020年7月20日 · America’s Plan to Counter Nazi Jets. The United States’ first jet plane, the Bell P-59 Airacomet, first flew on October 1942.

2024年5月31日 · The Bell P-59 "Airacobra" became the first viable military jet-powered aircraft for the United States when it took to the skies in October of 1942. However, its inherent design limitations restricted the product to nothing more than an important test platform and critical training aircraft teaching future generations of American airmen the ...

Bell YP-59A 'Airacomet' HISTORY The P-59 was the first jet-powered aircraft in the U.S. Jet engine development had been proceeding in Germany since the mid-1930s.

2022年3月7日 · Started several years behind British and German jet designs, the P-59 provided U.S. pilots with valuable experience during a crucial transition. Colonel Laurence C. “Bill” Craigie brings the first jet airplane built in the United States, the Bell XP-59A, in for a landing at Rogers Dry Lake, Muroc, Calif., on October 2, 1942.

The Bell P-59 Airacomet was the first American jet fighter aircraft, designed and built by Bell Aircraft during World War II. The United States Army Air Force was not impressed by its performance and cancelled the contract when fewer than half of …

2013年1月11日 · The first aeroplane to be designed in the US to acquire experience of the Whittle-type gas turbine engine, the Bell P-59 Airacomet project was initiated in the autumn of 1941, the first of three XP-59A prototype being flown on 1 October 1942. America’s first jet fighter was a single-seat midwing monoplane powered by two I-A engines of 1,400 ...

The Bell P-59 Airacomet was the first USA jet fighter aircraft built during World War II. The performance was not spectacular, but it did establish a new unofficial altitude record of 47,600 feet. Unsuitable as a fighter, it was relegated to the training role and paved the way for the first American operational jet fighter, the Lockheed P-80 ...