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The F-9/37 looks a lot like a Beaufighter, only with twin tails, complete with the Bristol Hercules sleeve-valve engines.
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The original design looks nice though, maby of the callibur of the Hornet, only available before the war's end... Looks cool too! Would have been more use than the final version of the Welkin.
Looks more like the Gloster F.9/37 than the Whirlwind though.
A good example of what Flyboy(I think) was talking about when he said that putting a bigger engine in an AC not resulting in more performance was the F2G-1D. It had a R 4360-4 engine rated at 3000 hp for takeoff but had very little better performance than the F4U4 with the R 2800 and inferior performance compared to the F4U5 with the R 2800.
BINGO!!!A good example of what Flyboy(I think) was talking about when he said that putting a bigger engine in an AC not resulting in more performance was the F2G-1D. It had a R 4360-4 engine rated at 3000 hp for takeoff but had very little better performance than the F4U4 with the R 2800 and inferior performance compared to the F4U5 with the R 2800.
"Looks more like the Gloster F.9/37 than the Whirlwind though."
"The one below is the initial version of what became the Welkin, before it was redesigned for the altered specifications for high-altitude use".
"And Gramme, is there any more you know about the Westland F.4/40 design, proposed dementions maby? It looks like it would have been much better than the F.7/41 version turned out (Welkin)."
The F-9/37 looks a lot like a Beaufighter, only with twin tails, complete with the Bristol Hercules sleeve-valve engines.
The F-9/37 looks a lot like a Beaufighter, only with twin tails, complete with the Bristol Hercules sleeve-valve engines.
P-38's record makes it unquestionably the best wartime twin. Clearly the most effective, all around twin engine fighter.
Second comes Mosquito. Used in plethora of figher roles: day and night fighter, long range escort and intrude.
Sentimental favourite is the Whirlwind. A nasty combination of too many foward looking ideas and a bad engine choice and poor fuel plumbing, barring it from long range missions, doomed it.
If they'd built the proposed Whirlwind Mk II, with the uprated Peregrines running on 100 octane, 40% more fuel, cross feed fuel system and larger Hamilton high activity props, it could of been escorting RAF bombers to Lower Saxony, the Rhine and other important production areas in Germany by the end of 1942.
P-38...
But I would like too see a Whirlwind whith a pair of Merlins...
But the Hornet didn't enter service until well after the war ended.
IQTriple ace of what?
Next, three Fw 187A-0 (based upon the third prototype) pre-serial planes were built and used since summer 1940 as a defense for the Focke-Wulf facilities at Bremen, later in the Winter inofficially at the 13. destroyer squadron in Norway. The pilots in Norway were enthusiastic about its potential and demanded quantity production, but instead they were ordered to give the planes back to Focke-Wulf because they were only in inofficial use. Some Fw187 were also used in the aerial shooting school in Vaerlose, Denmark.
In the facility defense role, they shot down several aircraft. One Fw187 ace was killed in his aircraft.
(Sorry, I´ve lost the details, at least six kills, I believe.)
You know, they used to call the P-61, "The Flying Coffin" for a reason.The best.........I may change my mind but right now I'll go with the P-38, but my favorite is the P-61 Black Widow.