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Speed,Combat,Scale,Racing => Carrier => Topic started by: Paul Smith on October 11, 2018, 06:19:35 AM
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I was given a couple of old (1983 built) MO-1's which I've been rehabbing to current best practices.
I've searched the net for history and found very little.
This what I've found: 36 or 37 units built. Delivered to USN Dec 1, 1924. Maybe begun in 1921.
Used only by the USN. Carrier-launched and arrested landing. Also float-equipped.
What's missing: End date of use. War record (not much chance that I can imagine). Any surviving units? I doubt it.
I seems unlikely that any units remained in service into the 1930's. The Navy has a practice of getting rid of the old stuff when new comes to them.
The model shown is not mine, just one I photographed at a contest.
Note the 1969 Carrier model plan. This must be a very early Class I model. Back in the day of no official profile and no sliders. The publication date of 1969 implies that it probably dated back to circa 1966.
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Gary Hull passed along his Naval Aviation research binder to me at Dayton. Herewith is some data on the MO-1.
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MO data, including the clincher photo evidence of carrier operation.
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I wasn't doubting the carrier use.
I was more curious about the end-of-service date.
The beginning in 1921 or 1924 is clear enough. The end date is my question. Based on the rapid rate of progress, I doubt it lasted to 1930.
My Sport Scale PB-2A (P-30) has a well-documented life that begins in 1934 and ended with the final unit being scraped in mid-1941. It was the world's best fighter for about one year in peacetime. It beat out the P-26 and lost to the P-35.