Brown B-3
Introduction The '''Brown B-3''' was a 1930s American single-seat touring monoplane and air racer built by the Lawrence Brown Aircraft Company. Only one aircraft was built.
Design and development The B-3 was based on earlier B-2 ''Miss Los Angeles'' single-seat racing monoplane. For the day, some advanced features were included such as Handley Page leading edge slots and single-slotted ailerons and flaps on the wing trailing edge. The B-3 was powered by a 290-horsepower (219 kW) Menasco C6S-4 Super Buccaneer inline piston engine. A proposed two seat-variant, the '''Brown B-3 Super Sport''' had two seats in tandem under an enclosed cockpit. No orders were received, and the project died. Brown B-3 (Metropolitan Airport)
Operational history Intended as a long-distance racer as well as a touring aircraft, only one Brown B-3 (NX266Y) was built and sold to Dr. Ross Sutherland from Los Angeles. On October 10, 1943, the aircraft was destroyed in a hangar fire at Van Nuys Airport,  then known as the Metropolitan Airport. The Brown B-3 is featured in ''Flight for Freedom'' (1943) as the racing aircraft flown by the lead character. The B-3 is featured as a prototype fighter aircraft in ''Flight Lieutenant'' (1942) and crashes out of shot in the final scene. The B-3 can also be seen sitting on the ramp during the scene of Humphrey Bogart's famous goodbye in the film Casablanca (1942).
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References ===Notes======Bibliography===* ''The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982–1985)''. London: Orbis Publishing, 1985.