Recent content by Dcazz7606

I don't see any invasion stipes on top of the wings so it must have been later.

The Ki-43 was about 800lbs. lighter than the zero. A cannon probably would shake it apart

I'm from Marblehead, Mass. Not only the Birthplace of the American Navy but the home of WW!1s lesser known Burgess Flying Boats. The factory burned in 1918 so that was the end of that. The back room of Abott Hall ( Home of the Spirit of 76) has models of the hanging from the ceiling. Burgess's...

Some years ago I read an article about the testing of the Ki-84 and when US fuel was put into it the top speed was about 427 mph. This high speed surprised every one. It's a good thing they had lower octane fuel as they would have been way more competitive and in some cases superior!

P-39 Airacobra. Give it a ventral radiator similar to Mustang or Ki-61 and use the space in the wings for more fuel tanks.

I read an article years ago that stated that night flying was tried in the P-47 but the red glow from the turbo supercharger was very visible in the night sky and left a glowing streak across the night sky where it flew. It was decided to leave it as a day fighter!

I found a picture of the P-38 Swordfish.

I think Shortround hit on the biggest reason as Lockheed was stuck without a 2nd production facility for most of the war and you could only stuff so much stuff into Burbank!

I believe they did. Nicknamed the Swordfish. It had a very streamlined 2 seat fuselage. It ended up being used as a test plane for different wing plane forms. It looked like a winner to me. I don't know why it wasn't developed further.

Sorry, brain f*rt P-35 (Swedish EP1's). I seems after the USA sequestered all export fighters the Swedes gave the italians an EP1 to copy and improve and bought the same amount of Re.2000's to make up for the EP1's seized by the USA. Good catch!

They certaintly improve it !

Here's a better shot of the tail!

I was re-reading warren Bodies Thunderbolt and it has an interesting section on the Reggianne 2000 and successors. It seems the designers at Reggiane took the airframe of a P-43 and the landing gear from a P-36 combined with a Piaggio engine and sreamlined the canopy and cowell to design this...

I'll correct myself as this booklet says 422 mph at 20,000 ft. The clipped wings reduced the span by two feet. Also states there were aprox. 300 P-40 R's which were F's and L's that had their Merlins replaced by Allisons because of a shortage of Merlins. No big deal but interesting.