- Keystone LB-5
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The Keystone LB-5 (originally produced under the Huff-Daland name) was a bomber aircraft produced in the United States in the late 1920s. Its manufacturer nicknamed it the Pirate, but this name was not officially adopted by the
USAAC . The LB-5 was a member of the family of closely-related bomber designs that had debuted with the XLB-1 in 1923, and as such, was a large, single-bay, conventional biplane. Like most of the family, it was a twin-engine machine, with engines mounted in nacelles on the lower wing. The prototype XLB-5 and the ten LB-5 production machines had a single tail fin like the XLB-1, but a second batch was given twin tails, and designated LB-5A.Variants
* XLB-5 - Prototype (1 built)
* LB-5 - first production batch with single tail fin (10 built)
* LB-5A - second production batch with twin tails (25 built)Operators
* United States
**United States Army Air Corps pecifications (LB-5)
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armament4=2,312 lb (1,051 kg) of bombs
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* [http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=2430 National Museum of the USAF XLB-5 fact sheet]
* [http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=2402 National Museum of the USAF LB-5 fact sheet]
* [http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=2403 National Museum of the USAF LB-5A fact sheet]
* [http://home.att.net/~jbaugher2/lb5.html American Bombing Aircraft]
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