• This unusual-looking aircraft, painted dark green, features two short wings on the nose, two large swept-back wings near the rear, with a propeller mounted behind the pilot's cockpit.
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    The Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Museum put the XP-55 on display in 2006, following extensive restoration work.

  • This unusual-looking aircraft, painted dark green, features two short wings on the nose, two large swept-back wings near the rear, with a propeller mounted behind the pilot's cockpit.

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June 16, 2009

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Eric Long

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Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum

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