The Snapshots in Time Collection

Boeing Pursuit Biplane with Striped Rudder, U.S. Army Air Corps Field, December 1931

Boeing Pursuit Biplane with Striped Rudder, U.S. Army Air Corps Field, December 1931

This early 1930s photograph shows a Boeing-built pursuit biplane parked on an Army airfield, its rudder marked with bold black-and-white stripes typical of pursuit squadron identification during the interwar period. Aircraft such as this represented the cutting edge of American fighter design in the years leading up to World War II. Project: 218216