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The radial engine nacelles appear to be about as big as the short, rounded fuselage of the Curtiss Jeep, so that they appear disproportionally large. The propellers are in front of the nose, and the main gear is also close to the front. The horizontal stabilisers are attached to the vertical fin, but just above the rear fuselage.
The Custiss Commando has two main characteristics to recognise it from other aircraft. These are the double-bouble fuselage, with an "eight-shaped" cross section, and the streamlined cockpit with many windows which is completely flush with the fuselage and nose.
With its main gear retracting rearward in fairings under the wings, the radial piston engine SNC is easy to recognise. The aircraft has a rather high canopy, of which the rear part slides open aft and slightly down. FInally, the fuselage tapers significantly after the canopy.
The Curtiss BFC bomber-fighter (originally F11C) has a cowling covered radial piston engine driving a three blade propeller. The fixed main gear has droplet shaped streamline covers on the inside.
The F7C looks similar to the F6C but has a radial piston engine as standard. The upper wings have a slight sweep angle, and both wings are not tapered. The wing and gear struts are relatively thick, with the legs of the N-frame between the upper and lower wings tilted outward.
Unlike many of its contemporaries the Curtiss F6C-1 until F6C-3 (and land-based P-1) have a liquid cooled V-shaped piston engine which result in a rather streamlined nose except for the cooler intake underneath it. The tapered wings have a slightly swept leading edge and rounded tips, while the tail is rather low.
The H-75 radial piston engine fighter has a typical main gear: it rotates 90 degrees around its axis before beging retracted rearward in the wings. Then a slight bump is visible at the bottom of the wings. As such it can be considered the radial version of the more famous P-40, with which is shares the multi-framed canopy, that is flush with the top of the fuselage.
A flying boat with as main distinctive external feature the diagonal struts in front of the pusher engine and the vertical stabiliser. The piston engine is placed above the fuselage, below the upper wings.
Commonly referred to as 'Jenny' many, many pilots learned to fly on this biplane after WW1. Most versions have wider span upper wings than lower wings. They are barced by two sets of struts on both sides and many wires. Typical are the rounded triangular vertical stabiliser and inverted airfoil shaped fuselage when seen from the side.
The liquid-cooled piston engine in the nose of the P-40 has a large air intake below the nose, where the cooling takes place. Another distinctive aspect is the main gear that retracts backward in the wings, rotating 90 degrees during the process. Most versions have a slight bend and streamline body under the wings where the gear is attached. Finally, the canopy is multi-framed, with the top often flush with the top of the fuselage.