Today we look at an aircraft that was as innovative as it was strange: the Curtiss A-12 Shrike.

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Sources:
Bowers P.M. (1979), Curtiss Aircraft 1907-1947.
Swanborough F. G. and Bowers P.M. (1963), United States Military Aircraft Since 1907.
Profile Publications: The Curtiss Shrike, Number 128 (1966).