The vital work of Wright Field aircraft designers before and during WWII.

At the same time, brilliant aircraft engineers submitted plans for aircraft of the future. These were the questions they had to answer. How would these airplanes perform? Would they have the necessary range, speed, and load carrying ability? Final decisions were not easy to make. The men making those decisions knew that responsibility for the future of America rested on their foresight. The airplanes with which the United States opened its fight against the Axis were being designed and developed as long as 10 years ago. Right field engineers work with aircraft builders to translate ideas to concrete plans on the drawing boards and to working models in the field. What came of this research program directed by the Army Air Forces at Wrightfield? Let's look at some of those early developments. There was the Bell P39 with a 37 mm cannon