Engineering Division TW-1
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__NOTOC__ The Engineering Division TW-1 was an American two-seat training
biplane A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other. The first powered, controlled aeroplane to fly, the Wright Flyer, used a biplane wing arrangement, as did many aircraft in the early years of aviation. While ...
designed by the United States Army
Engineering Division The Engineering Division was a division of the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps in the United States Department of War. It was formed on 31 August 1918, under the direction of Lt Col Jesse G. Vincent, to study and design American versions of f ...
, only two were built and the type did not enter production.


Design and development

Two prototypes of the TW-1 were built powered by a Liberty 6. The second aircraft was tested at McCook Field, (given the McCook designation P-200) and subsequently modified with a Packard 1A-1237 engine but no others were built.


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