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Currently Playing: The Forgotten Experimental Boeing B-9 Launched a Revolution in US Bombers

Boeing was one of the pioneers of cantilever monoplanes in the late 1920s. Having narrowly failed with the Monomail mail plane, their next project was the YB-9, a revolutionary bomber that could outrun any fighter of the period. This is the story of a pioneering aircraft and the reasons it ultimately failed.