OF is entirely correctly here-the US talked a big talk, but the plans to fill out the US ranks with US design, built & operated aircraft were badly implemented, rife with corruption, and generally pie-in-the-sky (yes, pun intended) hopes. The US had to make due with (sometimes US-built) British designs (DH 4, DH 9 & 9A) and French (Nieuport Ni.28, SPAD S.13, Breguet Br.14) aircraft. The US designed & built "Liberty" engine, in varying power ratings did power many of the foreign (to the US) designed, US-built aircraft though.

For my own part, I wonder if DB is trying to set up a challenge, see if I will have t skip commenting on something he pictures. We are getting close, but I do have a whle lot of reference materials handy.

Vickers F.B. (Fighting Biplane) 24-another aircraft that never made it beyond the prototype stage The engine that it was designed to mate with, the Vickers -developed Hart, was to unreliable. It probably could have been made to work, but by the time the might have happened, the British already had a very servicable Two-seat fighter aircraft, the Bristol F.2b. In stark contrast to a lot of British products,t he F.2b was one of the best aircraft of the war, completely obscuring the Vickers F.B.24.

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