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Waynos said:
Graeme, is that the N-82, or YF-89F? I have read about the project but never seen a picture.
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Hi Wayne.

Yes. The F-89F. Don't have much on it other than it reached the mock-up stage and was cancelled due to "technical problems involving the use of nuclear weapons". The huge mid-span mounted tanks housed the main landing gear, fuel and missiles. Unlike the Scorpion the fuselage was faired straight back from the front cockpit and the one-piece stabiliser was attached to the fuselage.
 
No. 4 is a Bristol Blenheim, early version (Mk.I) with the short nose.

No. 5 looks very much like an EE Lightning ("climbes like a homesick angel")

And No. 2 is the prone-pilot Meteor, a prototype (built from a Mk.8 I think)with a second pilots seat in the nose for a prone lying pilot. Winkle Brown told us - when we met him in Munich this summer - that he had great fun giving pilots a ride in the "normal" seat while he was flying in the nose. He said it was great fun pulling G's and the man in the back passed out again and again. And when he landed he was fresh and the the other guy totally exhausted.

Krabat
 
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How about this one. It once whas a project that had reached the mock up stage, but after an enemy air raid it whas destroyed and for unknow reason the idea of this project was abandoned.
 

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I'd like to fly the Supermarine 327, though I wouldn't try to shoot the cannons. The propeller tips would get in the way, right? And I don't think the cannons would fit that close together, even when staggered. Would be nice to compare it to the Whirlwind or the much later Hornet though.

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