Subject: Bomber Series--L.W.F. NBS-2

From: [email-masked] (joseph.f.baugher)
Date: 24 May 94 00:50:23 GMT

The NBS-2 was a project of the L.W.F. (Lowe, Willard, and Fowler) 
Engineering Company of College Point, Long Island for a twin-engined 
biplane bomber designed to replace the Martin-designed NBS-1.  The 
L.W.F company had manufactured 35 examples of the NBS-1, and the 
company's proposal was based largely on their experience with that 
project.  Like the NBS-1, the NBS-2 was to have been powered by a pair 
of Liberty 12A liquid-cooled engines.  However, unlike the NBS-1, the 
fuselage was to be made largely of metal.  

Unfortunately, the L.W.F. company went out of business in April of 
1923 before anything could be completed and the project was cancelled.  

Sources: 

  United States Military Aircraft Since 1909, Gordon Swanborough and 
  Peter M. Bowers, Smithsonian, 1989.  

  American Combat Planes, 3rd edition, Ray Wagner, Doubleday, 1982.  

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