Which was the better choice for naval operations?
According to the Wikipedia article on the F7F:
In 1945, two Tigercats, serialled TT346 and TT349, were evaluated, but rejected, by the British Royal Navy, preferring a navalized version of the de Havilland Hornet.[11]
It would seem that de Havilland had the benefit of actually having a Halford H-1 B turbojet to work with while Lockheed had only blueprint dimensions from which to design the P-80 around.
For the sake of the war effort, would it have been more practical or more effective to concentrate...