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"[The] Burnelli fighter bomber - the A-1 - that we
tested at Langley Field and won the competition, the
fact that we won that competition, did us no good, because we never
were allowed to build the airplane."
Charles F. Mullen, formerly Chief Engineer for Vincent J. Burnelli
at Long Branch, NJ, in a taped interview recorded on May 20,
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"When anybody criticises or speaks derogatorily of the Burnelli aircraft design - lifting fuselage design - all one has to do is to refer them to the results of that Langley Field test in 1941 on the A-1 bomber, and they would be answered fully. At that time it out-performed every top airplane manufacturer in the country who submitted designs in the same competition we were in. Period ." Charles F. Mullen, formerly Chief
Engineer for Vincent J. Burnelli at Long Branch, NJ, in a taped interview recorded on
May 20, 1973
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