battleplane การใช้

• On December 12, 1915, the newly formed Sturtevant Aeroplane Company tested its new A-3 Battleplane prototype on the Readville field, becoming the first American airplane engineered specifically for air combat.
• The " Battleplane " featured a water-cooled 14 hp Sturtevant V-8 engine with two removable 8-foot ?2.5-foot nacelles positioned mid-wing for machine gunners to fire outside the propeller arc.