[Fryslanboy]

RealDarko, those pics get me a little too excited. What engines are those? I've always wondered what a '38 could do with uprated engines.

I guess, those engines are the same like the Hellcat and Corsair, so that would be a P&W R2800 Double Wasp... :wink: Powerfull enough, I think :twisted:

Here a quote from Wiki:

Lockheed proposed a carrier-based Model 822 version of the Lightning for the United States Navy. The Model 822 would have featured folding wings, an arresting hook, and stronger undercarriage for carrier operations. The Navy was not interested, as they regarded the Lightning as too big for carrier operations and did not like liquid-cooled engines anyway, and the Model 822 never went beyond the paper stage. However, the Navy did operate four land-based F-5Bs in North Africa, inherited from the USAAF and redesignated FO-1.