The National Interest

Boeing’s P-26 Peashooter Fighter Plane was Far Deadlier Than It Looked

When it comes to the P-26 Peashooter, you can’t judge its prowess by looks alone. As one proverb goes, “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” If one were to metaphorically apply that truism to combat ...
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P-26 Peashooter: Before The Super Hornet, This Was the Last Fighter Built by Boeing

If you're familiar at all with Boeing, it's likely because of their world-famous big airliners, the 707, 747, and so on. But one area the current world's largest aerospace company neglected for over ...
The Aviationist

Some of the Old, Some of the New: Boeing’s P-26 “Peashooter”

The first all-metal low-wing monoplane pursuit aircraft of the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was a pioneering but also transitional aircraft, and, along with serving stateside, saw service in ...
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Boeing P-26A Peashooter

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Boeing P-26A of the mid-to-late 1930s introduced the concept of the high-performance, all-metal monoplane fighter ...