Loening M-8

The Loening M-8 was a 1910s American fighter monoplane designed by Grover Loening and built by his Loening Aeronautical Engineering Company. An order of 5000 for the United States Army Air Corps was canceled when the First World War ended.

Development

The first design by Grover Loening after he had formed his company was a two-seat braced-wing monoplane fighter the M-8. It had a fixed tailskid landing gear and was powered by a nose-mounted Hispano-Suiza engine with a tractor propeller. The pilot and gunner had tandem open cockpits. The first aircraft was flown in 1918 and after testing the United States Army Air Corps ordered 5000 aircraft to be built. Only two aircraft were delivered to the Army and one to the United States Navy with the designation M-8-0. At the end of the war the order was canceled. The Navy ordered 46 aircraft in two variants for use as observation aircraft. The Navy also ordered six M-8-S twin-float seaplane versions. A single-seat version was developed for the Army as the Loening PW-2.

M8

M8 or M-8 may refer to:

Computing, electronics, and engineering

M8 (cipher), an encryption algorithm

Leica M8, a digital rangefinder camera

HTC One (M8), a smartphone

Meizu M8, a smartphone

M8, a standard bolt and nut size in the ISO metric screw thread system

Rockets

M8 (rocket), an American World War II air-to-surface and surface-to-surface rocket

M-8 rocket, a variant of the RS-82 rocket used by the Soviet Union in World War II

Transport

Civilian

M8 (New York City bus), a New York City Bus route in Manhattan

M8, a Washington, D.C. Metrobus route

M8 (railcar), a Metro-North Railroad car

BMW M8, a concept car

Military

M8 Armored Gun System, a US Army light tank cancelled in 1996

M8 Greyhound, an American armored car used during World War II

M8 Tractor, an artillery tractor used by the US Army

Howitzer Motor Carriage M8, an American self-propelled howitzer vehicle developed during World War II

Loening M-8, a 1910s American fighter monoplane

Miles M.8 Peregrine, a 1930s twin-engined light transport monoplane primarily used by the Royal Aircraft Establishment

M-8 (Michigan highway)

M-8 is a 5.5 miles (8.9 km) state trunkline highway in the U.S. state of Michigan lying within the cities of Detroit and Highland Park. Much of it is the Davison Freeway, the nation's first urban depressed freeway, which became a connector between the Lodge (M-10) and the Chrysler (Interstate 75, I-75) freeways.

Named for an English immigrant to the area, Davison Avenue was originally the only street connecting across Highland Park to Detroit. It was rebuilt by the city and Wayne County as a freeway during World War II. The roadway was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) in 1993 and numbered as M-8. Subsequent changes by the state rebuilt the freeway and extended the M-8 designation to connect to the Jeffries Freeway (I-96).

Route description

M-8 starts on the western end at an interchange with I-96 in Detroit. Davison Avenue continues west of this interchange forming a service drive for the freeway while M-8 uses a short section of freeway to connect between I-96 and Davison Avenue. This short freeway segment runs easterly to Livernois Avenue where the trunkline transitions into Davison Avenue. East of this transition, the roadway turns northeasterly running through residential areas of Detroit. The trunkline meets M-10/Lodge Freeway on the border between Detroit and Highland Park, a city surrounded by Detroit. Northeast of this interchange, M-8 becomes the Davison Freeway, running depressed below the level of the cross streets. There are interchanges for M-1/Woodward Avenue and Oakland Avenue before meeting the Chrysler Freeway (I-75) on the eastern border of Highland Park. The Davison Freeway continues northeasterly in Detroit north of Hamtramck. The freeway ends between Gallagher and Newbern avenues. M-8 continues to Conant Street where the designation ends. Davison Avenue continues past Mound Road where it turns back due east until it ends at Van Dyke Street next to the Mt. Olivet Cemetery.