29.07.2009, 17:26
MustangNF Wrote:This is a list of planes that could have realistically seen production and done quite well in combat in a war that was harder on the Americans.
P-67A-1MD - 1944
The Mac Donnel XP-67 Moonbat refitted with either a Packard V-1650 engine or an Allison V-1710 engine with two-stage supercharger in front of each engine nacelle and an GE I-20 turbojet or a Westinghouse 9.5" turbojet in the rear of each nacelle and a new gun selection of either 6 or 8x.50cal machine guns making a high-speed, long-range, and high maneuverability fighter that could have gone into immediate production.
XP-67 with jet engines never got further than "talk" ( http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/p67.html ), no way it could have been produced in 1944.
MustangNF Wrote:The production configuration of the Douglas XB-42A Mixmaster.
What do you mean "production configuration"...? XB-42 never had any "production configuration" and that particular one couldn't be further away from production, as it was made for purely experimental purposes and flew in March 1947 ( http://home.att.net/~jbaugher2/b42.html ).
MustangNF Wrote:The production model of the Curtiss XF15C.
Same thing, there was no such thing as "production model" of that plane.
MustangNF Wrote:The production model of the lightened and rearmed Consolidated YP-81 Silver Bullet.
Someone's fantasy again... YP-81s were never made ( http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/p81.html ).