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'221 IS ONE OF 50 PT. 26 CORNELLS DELI VERE D TO THE ROYAL NORWEGIAN AIR FORCE'S TRAINING BASE LITTLE NORWAY AT TORONTO, CANADA BETWEEN AUGUST 1942 AND JULY 1944. THESE PLANES WERE PAINTED IN THE STANDARD USAAF COLOUR SCHEME WITH BLUE FUSELAGE, BELLOW WINGS AND TAIL PLANES. RED-WHITE-BLUE MARKINGS. WHITE NUMBERS. 221 HAS NOW FOUND IT'S PLACE AMONG
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Messerschmitt Me Messerschmitt Me 262 Swallow 96 Mitsubishi A6M Mitsubishi G4M North American P-51B Mustang 108 P-61 Black Widow 110 Republic P-47 Kaydet P-61 Black Widow 110 Kaydet
Color And Markings
Figure 10 The addition of a yellow outer ring to the Type A British roundel divided the diameter of the new Type A.1 marking into equal sevenths. It was used on camouflaged surfaces from 1937 through June 1942. Figure 10 The addition of a yellow outer ring to the Type A British roundel divided the diameter of the new Type A.1 marking into equal sevenths. It was used on camouflaged surfaces from 1937 through June 1942.
Gladiator
HE evolution of the Gloster Gladiator, England's last biplane fighter, can be traced back to WW I. It was designed by H.P. Folland, who also designed the famous SE-5 used in that war, and the particular chord-gap-stagger relationships of the Gladiator's wings are strongly reminiscent of the SE-5. The Gladiator represented the final stage in England's development of the classic biplane fighter. It featured such latter-day refinements as single-leg landing gear and enclosed cockpit, and it...
Flush Riveted
SKIN JOINT TOWING EYE MAIN WING SPAR pilot's instrument panel lower starboard
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Ray randall fussed away during the xmas holidays 1961. this drawing was made possible by loaning his data he placed 4th in r c carrier scale model events at the nats. phil a delphi a. 19 61. drag strut assembly castor assembly
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Engine cowl flap controls heating and ventilation controls. food packet. pilot's enclosure emergency release engine fire extinguisher propeller feathering controls. electrical ffcnel COMMUNICATION'S EQUIPMENT BC-457A 40-5 3 M C V BC-458A 53-7 3 M C . BC-456A DYNAMOTOR UNIT DM-33A ANTENNA UNIT BC-442A RECEIVER BC-453A . RECEIVER BC-454A. RECEIVER BC- 455A ADAPTER FT-238A -DYNAMOTOR UNIT DM 32 A . RECEIVER TUNING SHAFT. TUNING SHAFT COUPLING. SCR-535 I F F AND DETONATOR RADIO MAST FIRING UPPER...
Airfoil Section
Wing tip airfoil naca 23009 wing root chord 143 life raft a mark 4, typed, liferaft is stowed in a fuselage compartment on the upper part of the structure between the middle cockpit and the gun turret. tow target provision is made for a tow target. drop target provision is made for a drop target. smoke tank the smoke screen tank is carried in the bomb bay. it can be releas e 0 electrically or manually, pyrotechnics eight A-nmark 4 float lights ARE stowed in a rack in the bombardier's pilot'S...
AND PERFORMANCE Qyd
Wright R-3350-23 2200hp at 25,000 ft. test YB-17s were built in Wichita, KS, but they, too as well as early production models , were plagued with engine problems and difficulties with all the new equipment from remotely sighted and controlled gun turrets to cabin pressurization , electrical trouble and radar installations. Airplane deliveries were hampered by delays of material and equipment from the greatest network of sub-contractors and suppliers ever set up for an airplane production...
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Head room and greatly improved all-around visibility. The A-26C was the light bomber variant, still with the turrets but normally carrying only two .50-caliber guns in a lengthened Plexiglas bomber nose. Late A-26Cs also carried six wing guns. The XA-26 first flew on July 10,1942, and production models were in combat in the Pacific by the spring of 1944, but were not notably successful until improvements were made. Operations in Europe, starting in September, were more successful. The Long...
Helldiver
THE SB2C Helldiver, which was the third Curtiss dive bomber to carry the name, became an effective attack plane late in the war, after a long development and debugging period. The XSB2C-1 flew in December 1940, but the production version didn't appear until June 1942. The design was seriously handicapped by contradictory Navy requirements, with dimensions limited by aircraft carrier space requirements and performance handicapped by the required military payload and equipment. Helldiver...
Wing Flap Installation The Wing Flaps Are Made Of Aluminum Alloy Are Of The
THE INBOARD FLAP EXTENDS FROM THE FUSELAGE TO THE OUTER WING PANEL. THE OUTBOARD FLAP EXTENDS FROM THE INBOARD END OF THE OUTER PANEL TO THE INNER END OF THE AILERON. THE OUTBOARD FLAP IS CARRIED ON FOUR HINGES. THE INBOARD FLAP IS HINGED TO THE CENTER SECTION AT TWO FITTINGS THE OUTBOARD FLAPS ARE EXTENDED AND RETRACTED BY HYDRAULIC ACTUATING CYLINDERS 2 . THE ACTION OFTHE OUTER FLAPS IS TRANSFER ED TO TH E 1N-FLAPS BY BEARING BLOCKS-THE ER FLAPS ARE RETRACTEO BY MEANS , TENSION SPRINGS. WING...
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Figure 8 On January 5, 1942, the U. S. Navy adopted this red-and-white variation of the Army rudder stripes for use on camouflaged airplanes, but used it only until May 15, 1942. Figure 8 On January 5, 1942, the U. S. Navy adopted this red-and-white variation of the Army rudder stripes for use on camouflaged airplanes, but used it only until May 15, 1942. through 1926, the Army and Navy used the same rudder markings three vertical stripes of equal width with red at the trailing edge, then...
Pencil Art Aircraft
An SB2C-1C with its retractable, leading-edge wing-slats open. Note the short-lived red border around the insignia as used in July August 1942, and the use of topside camouflage on the outer folding panels of the wing. The plane in the background has folded wings and open bomb-bay doors. An SB2C-1C with its retractable, leading-edge wing-slats open. Note the short-lived red border around the insignia as used in July August 1942, and the use of topside camouflage on the outer folding panels of...
Stringer
ENGINE quick change unit THE ENGINE quick change unit is supplie AS A SPARE to facilitate engine change ANO RE MIR unoer combat maintenance CONDITIONS the unit consists of all COMPONENTS of functional systems WHCM ARE attached to the engine or th ENGINE mount incluoed in the unit are THE COWLING and the engine mount. carburetor air filter air filters are installed over each air door in the carburetor air header engine supercharger the TWO speed supercharger is locate0 in the air intake manifold...
Train Return To Neutral Switch
Smoke tank reel smoke tank control station distributor microphonf firing key. intervalometer interphone control. electrical control panel turret power switch transmitter sending key instrument panel relief tube oxygen flow indicator 50 caliber wing gun ammo trough ammo box LATERAL STlFFENER WING FLAP IS SPLIT TRAILING EDGE TYPE note all skin covering is aluminum alloy 24 st.24 so or 52s 1 4 h as required - entire fuselage skin fixed horizontal covered with 24st al stabilizer uminum sheet 025 to...
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B-17Cs, which the U.S. Army transferred to the British as Fortress I. Their first combat use was a raid on Wilhelmshaven, Germany, on July 8,1941. The systems and armament of the B-17 had not been designed or modified for high-altitude operations under European combat conditions, so the Fortresses were quickly withdrawn. In the Pacific, the few surviving B-17Cs and Ds did much better. Their perfor-
Lateral Stiffener Crimped Incse
A 16 mm electrically operated and heated gun camera is udcateow the left wing stub when the gun trigger is operated the camera takes a moving picture automatically the movie film can be projected to check gunnery results the camera temperature is thermostatically controlled ano varied from the u s navy f4f- 3 in several equipment details the g-36 was essentially a ffchter bomber. typical outer wing rib built in 3 sections sta 136 arresting gear operation the arresting gear oonsists of .a...
Invasion Stripes
For the invasion of France in June 1944, participating U.S. and British airplanes carried hastily applied Invasion Figure 19 Panchromatic film and a filter lighten and emphasize the red band used on the vertical fins of German military airplanes from 1935 into 1938. The black swastika was moved to the fin after the red band and white circle were deleted. Civil-registered German airplanes retained the red band and white circle throughout the war. Stripes for quick, positive identification. These...
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Specifications Wing 5pan 4 3 Length Overall 99 0 Propeller Dm. 16-6 Engine H. P. Each 2,200H.P. f-j Transparent Panel Tail Bumper Sliding Ladder- ar Entrance k Remote Controlled Turret Bomb-Bay doors U AIR AGE INC., 551 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK 17, N Y Remote Controlled Turret vRetracted Position-Nose Wmeel -Torque Links Oeheral Arrangement Boeing Super-Fortress' Retr ac te d Posj t oh - L an ding Wheels
Aircraft Drawings
Pilot's head rest bucket type s e at adjustable in height position engine cowl cooling flaps closed POSITION pilot's cockpit to other positions on this airplane or vice versa. armor protection armor plate is installed to minimize the possibility of enemy gunfire killing the aircrew. acknowledgement ron gerdes a a h s ray randall a. a h.s. 1 'MHflli.M u gt fai t lt i r HIlltlUHftllll' gt iii iifcM nii '.iwilfH nwir 2 7'-7 875 to l e a ng root chord engine installation the tbm-3 is powered with a...
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Because Vichy France was subservient to Hitler, but Free French forces who had escaped joined the Allies, and both used the same basic national markings. GERMANY Germany was prohibited from having an air force by the Treaty of Versailles, which ended WW I. A secret Luftwaffe, however, was created in the early 1930s with airplanes that flew in civil markings. Proper military markings appeared when the new Luftwaffe was revealed to the world in 1935. Crosses White-bordered black crosses in...
British Designations
Britain's Royal Air Force identified its airplanes by given names rather than model numbers, so the diverted French DB-7s and the new American models were named Havoc and Boston. Havoc Former French DB-7s modified to British A t left an early Douglas A -20A. Note the DB-7B-type nose, external pack for nose machine guns and use of rudder stripes and two wing stars before the marking change of February 1941. At right an A-20G-40 with four. 50-caliber nose machine guns and a long-range ferry tank...
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FTER studies convinced Grumman that the performance of the F4F Wildcat couldn't be improved by the installation of a larger engine, the company opted for an entirely new design the Grumman 50. The model carried six .50-caliber machine guns and was powered by the 1,600hp Wright R-2600 Twin Cyclone engine. It differed most from the F4F in that its wing was lower and it had rearward-retracting landing gear, which was in the wing rather than in the fuselage. Also, the landing gear retracted aft...
Lancaster
An Am Lancaster I carrying standard British night-bomber camouflage. Note how far up the side of the fuselage the matte-black underside paint extends. Type B roundels are on top of the wing Type C. 1 roundels are on the fuselage. The fin flash is 24x36 inches. An Am Lancaster I carrying standard British night-bomber camouflage. Note how far up the side of the fuselage the matte-black underside paint extends. Type B roundels are on top of the wing Type C. 1 roundels are on the fuselage. The fin...
High Pressure Co Cylinders And Supply Lines
SOLENOIO VAL 'ES 2 . HAND E TINGU1SHERS 3 . A-20 SERlEo ATTACK BOMBER BUILT FOR W W U. DRAWN BY WILLIS L NYE FOR MODEL AIRPLANE NEWS 6-7-59 aircraft machine gun caliber 30 i r.h. feed i l.h. feed note two kinds of bomb racks were fitted in the bomb BAY., i. e. one for fragmentation bombs and one fop de molition bombs- the insignia, marking and camouflage the insignia, marking and camouflage on the exterior surfaces of trtt airplane is as follows -entire top surface dark olive drab entire lower...
Carburetor
CARBURETOR alternate air intake door identification mark on undersioe of winga bullet resista j browning m-2 caliber 50 aircooleo---- windshield aircraft type machine guns----- f ---77.6B tlectr1cally heateo-------1 I blast tubes------- L r mgaccess plate manually operable gun chargers ' ' p-86 ammo boxes and feed chutes-- carburetor air .nouct,on curtiss type constant speed variable pitch aluminum alloy blades---y curtiss type automatic electric governor pilot operates the sel- ector switch...
Great Naval Colour Schemes
His book, Volume II of the Air Age Scale Aircraft his book, Volume II of the Air Age Scale Aircraft Drawings series, covers 37 representative WW II airplanes. Some are prewar service models that served at the beginning of hostilities but were soon re- Drawings series, covers 37 representative WW II airplanes. Some are prewar service models that served at the beginning of hostilities but were soon re- placed, while others are more modern types that, with continual upgrading, were able to serve...
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Fabric Cove reo Ru oder De-Icing 5trip s Rear Entrance I Navigation Light Vfrg Tank Covers Oe CIHO Strip Exhaust Passage Cowl Flaps raojusta le WlNO deflector slichng Hatch r. 50 Cal . Machine 6 un Raoio An tehna Rcmcvhble Rcce Panels Alternate Oun Position - emeegency exit - Navigators Lighting Plasvc Nose Flat 6lass Panel Remote Control Chi Twin 50 Cal.mach. whs Vail Ounners Entrance - Z ' Dia. Ta l Wheel Control Houskig p ur ombBay Poor Toewe Links AIR AGE INC., 551 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK 17,...
And Performance
303 caL twin machine guns in all powered-turrets j -trim tab fabric covered elevators mass balance all metal stabilizer de-icing strips flame damper computing sight Green-haze and sandy-brown camouflage on top surface only. Dull-black on side and lower surfaces flame damping exhaust muff carburetor air intake glycol cooler hinged leading edge cabin air intake Rolls-Royce Merlin XX -1.260 h.p. engines -flap panel fairing panel molding strap navigation light observation blister direction finder...
Ww Ii Scale Aircraft Drawings
There were also F6F-5E night intruders and F6F-5P photoplanes. Britain received 925 F6F-5S. It should be noted that by 1944, Britain had begun to use prefix letters to identify special-purpose variants of basic models. The 849 plain F6F-5s became Hellcat II, but the 76 F6F-5NS became Hellcat N.F.II N.F. for Night Fighters . The last of 12,275 Hellcats, all built at Bethpage, was delivered on November 21, 1944. After the war, some F6F-5s were converted to F6F-5K drones, while others became...
Boeing B Flying Fortress
A Boeing B-29A-5-BN in flight with both sets of bomb-bay doors open. Note the four powered, remote-control gun turrets above and below the fuselage, and the 20mm cannon supplementing two .50-caliber machine guns in the tail turret. A Boeing B-29A-5-BN in flight with both sets of bomb-bay doors open. Note the four powered, remote-control gun turrets above and below the fuselage, and the 20mm cannon supplementing two .50-caliber machine guns in the tail turret. WHEN it entered service in June...
Drawn By C
An F4F-3 Wildcat with the oversize star insignia and the rudder stripes that were used early in 1942 for positive identification. The fuselage legend 41-F-8 identifies Airplane No. 8 of the first of two fighter squadrons aboard Ranger CV-4 , identified by the figure 4. At that time, carrier-based squadrons used the hull number of their parent carrier. delivered its last F4B-4, until 1939, the Grumman Aircraft Company of Bethpage, Long Island, NY, was the sole supplier of single-seat fighters to...
Specifications And Performance
Wing span 104 ft. Length 63 ft., Win. Wing Area 1,400 sq. ft Empty Weight 20,190 Ibs. Gross Weight 35,420 Ibs. Cruising Speed 1,13mph MG 2x.50-caliber MG 4x1,000-lb. bombs or depth charges. two Canadian plants. Eventually, it distinguished itself by becoming the most prevalent flying boat of all time 3,276 were built in the U.S. and Canada, plus an estimated 150 under license in Russia. In competition against the Douglas XP3D-1 patrol plane, Consolidated's XP3Y-1 was the winner and went into...
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gt '.' . v '. . IHWUUL Jttc VA, . . .wv. v. -v. ,, a . .v- . ' W ffffWB I A Consolidated PBY-5A ashore. Note the ram air scoops on the tops of the engines not shown on drawing and the hook-on access ladder at the side blister. Sea-blue camouflage on top of the wing is carried around to the bottom of the retracted wing-tip float. THE Consolidated PBY flying boat, named Catalina by the British, was one of the oddities of the war. A 1933 design, it was widely used by the U.S. Navy, but was nearly...
Douglas Dc-4 Drawings
The third Douglas DC-4 was built as an airliner but was delivered to the U. S. Army in war paint as a C-54. THE Douglas DC-4 Sky-master, which was produced for the U.S. Army as the C-54, was the most widely used four-engine transport and cargo plane of World War II, with 953 planes built in seven Army versions. Surprisingly, though, the plane didn't originate as a military airplane. Early in 1936, five U.S. airlines put up 100,000 each to help Douglas develop a new, long-range airliner, the...
Specifications And Performance Fwqa
Length 20 ft. variants carrying special equipment for specialized missions. These included aerial cameras for reconnaissance, batteries of up to six 30mm cannon for use against tanks and naval torpedoes for attacks against ships. There were even two-seat trainer versions. Twin-engine German bombers had difficulty reaching targets in England in 1942 and 1943, so some FW-190A-5S were fitted with bomb racks and auxiliary fuel tanks. Normal bomb load was one 500kg 1,100-pound bomb under the...
A Series Attack Bomber Built For Wwit Drawn By Willis L Nye For Model Airplane
Bombardiers equipment camera control box-vacuum type camera switch interyalometer. fluorescent lamp lock and salvo lever bomb arm-safe lever airspeed indicator free air thermometer emergency bomb door control. magnetic compass i altimeter. , i hydra'jlical'.v actuatec trailing edge a'ins flap 45 maximum depression bombs released in salvo in the order indicated- safety equipment ilong range very pistol ano cartridges dye markers. emergency rations. canteen. portable emergency raoio. concentrated...
Planes Of This Type Were Built Surplus Planes Were Modified Fop Forest Fire
Gun turret the electrically operated gun turret is equipped with a 50-caliber automatic machine gun. 200 rounds of ammo are carried an illum inat ed gun sight, a gun camera, an oxygen regulator, an oxygen FLOW indicator, a radio control box and a light ar e provided. the control OF the turret is such as to permit normal speed for elevation and train and a higher speed for slewing. the normal speed for elevation is 12 per second and the normal train speed is 20 per second the high speed switch...
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Figure 18 A German Focke-Wulf Fw.190A-3 carrying the black outlines of fuselage and wing crosses late in the war. Note the absence of a white border around the swastika on the fin. Figure 19 Panchromatic film and a filter lighten and emphasize the red band used on the vertical fins of German military airplanes from 1935 into 1938. The black swastika was moved to the fin after the red band and white circle were deleted. Civil-registered German airplanes retained the red band and white circle...
US Navy Skymasters
The C-54s transferred to the U.S. Navy were designated as follows R5D-1 56 C-54A, R5D-2 30 C-54B, R5D-3 86 C-54D, R5D-4 20 C-54E and R5D-5 13 C-54G. Postwar Use Cw DC-4s and converted C-54s went into airline service soon after the war. Although they outnumbered the newer Lockheed Constellation, they were at a competitive disadvantage because they weren't pressurized. The most notable postwar uses of the C-54 RHD were the Berlin Airlift of 1948-49, with 336 Skymasters involved, and a major...
Pitot
Radio antenna gun turret plexiglas enclosure downdraft carburetor air induction engine cowl flaps fixed horizontal 12 ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION PANEL fcj ti ic j i atc radio transmitter i v t 2 gun turret slip ring i amp fcv'gfc 3 arp radio receiver. , 000 l 6 radar scope. uv mnym arfjl - r___- pi 7 catapault handgrip gt . -- 7. 1 8 bomb bay door control. r wll ' til p'j 9 relief tube. q jr 12.- 10 instrument panel yellow tlp o - ' u i ii electrical panel . o _i__12 BOMB bat wlndqff- - jf...
Fiat Twin Air Engine
HE Italian Fiat CR 42 Falco Falcon has the distinction of being the last biplane fighter to be produced and put into first-line service by a major warring power. The prototype of this thoroughly anachronistic, open-cockpit, fabric-covered biplane with fixed landing gear flew early in 1939. Production continued into 1942, and 1,781 were built. The initials CR in the designation identify Celestino Rosatelli, a famous designer of long standing. His CR 42 evolved from a long line of CR fighters,...
Grumman Tbf Avenger
Up locks an 0 down locks the retractable landing gear anq tail wheel are provided with an jp-lock and a down lock with an appropriate manually ope rated emergency release mechanism the retrac table arresting hook also had an emergency release mechanism operable by the pilot however.onge extended the ho ok could not 3eretracte0mant.'a_lt gross weight a maximum gross weight ranging from 15.500 to 18.100 pounds is permissible glide bombing glide bombing is permissible with the bomb bay ooors open...
Antonov An-124 Drawing
Emerson Powered Turret Two.50 Cal.Mach. 6uns Sperrv Retractable Powered Ball Turret Two.50 Cal Mach. 6uhs Sl icing Panels Four Ms tin Entrance amp Bay The British Curtiss Model 87A-2 Kitty hawk is similar to the U. S. Army P-40D. It has the standard coloring of the 1941-early 1942 period, with sand-and-spinach camouflage on the top and side surfaces, light-blue underneath, Type A roundels under the wing, Type B on top of the wing and Type A.1 on the side of the fuselage. THE P-40 was already...
Solid Rib Outboaro Flap
Engine r-1630-56 curt iss- wright intercylinder ouct furnished G fe 1 engine baffle engine mount welded steel tubes engine oil tank accessory compartment cowl main landing whe ls bendlx landing gear brake installation 12 fuselage shell structure landing gear or ag link fairing fuselage belly skin removable fuselage longeron sta 2-5 self-sealing fuel cell FUSELAGE tail wheel. l h horizontal stabilizer r h horizontal stabilizer r h elevator l h. elevator r h elevator trim tab lh. elevator trimtab...
Consolidated Liberator
On December 29,1939. Such rapid development of a new model resulted from fitting a new bomber fuselage to the wing and tail of the existing Model 31 flying boat and adding two engines. The Liberator was continually improved throughout the war. The early B-24A had 1,200hp Pratt amp Whitney R-1830-33 engines without turbo-superchargers, but no armor or self-sealing fuel tanks, and it was defended by six .30-caliber, hand-swung machine guns. A powered top turret with two .50-caliber guns was added...
Note The Cables Are Schematically Shown Actual Course Of Cables Varies On The
Machine gun firing THE BUNS are flreo electrically by SOLENOIDS mounted ON each gun they CAN BE FIRED as a battery or in units OF TWO MBOARD or two outboard a SELECTOR SWITCH makes this possible TNf TRIBBER is the stanoaro control STICK TYPES. GUNS are manually and OPTICALLY boresghted GRUMMAN AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING CORPORATION F4F R_ANES NOTE THE PILOT'S CANOPY SLIDES BACK TO PERMIT ENTRANCE. AND IS manually OPE RATEO IT CAN BE LOCKEO AT FOUR POSITIONS FOR EMERGENCY EXIT, THE CANOPY IS PROVIOED...
Liberator
The B-24H-5-F0 was built by the Ford Motor Co. with late-type waist gunners ' windows. Camouflage was deleted from most U.S. Army combat planes in production early in 1944. The B-24H-5-F0 was built by the Ford Motor Co. with late-type waist gunners ' windows. Camouflage was deleted from most U.S. Army combat planes in production early in 1944. BESIDES being one of the major U.S. heavy bombers of the war, the Consolidated B-24, named the Liberator, has a distinction held by no other American...
