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Congompasse Wrote:
tater718 Wrote:And the Ass-Ender wasn't so hot. However,it did manage to make the ground crews sick because of the noise. It appears to be one of Curtiss' last gasps to produce a decent AC for the USAAF. The P 40 really was the last plane the company produced that was combat-worthy.
How about the Super Corsair instead? Bubble canopy and a big ol' honkin' 3360 for motivation.

Corsair F2G had a 4360 powerplant P&W, Wright built the 3350. The Goodyear F2G "Super" Corsair was a development by the Goodyear Aircraft Company of the FG-1/F4U-1 Corsair design as a special low-altitude version of a fighter equipped with a Pratt & Whitney R-4360 twenty-eight cylinder, four row radial air-cooled engine. Although often cited that the origin of the aircraft was as an interceptor of low-flying Japanese suicide airplanes, its actual beginnings came about in 1939 when the Pratt and Whitney company first proposed its enormous new engine. Thus the F2G lineage was tied to its engine design rather than tactical requirements.
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