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What would your version of the F5F look like?
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What would your version of the F5F look like?
The B-17 DID get sorted out and was a viable high-altitude bomber, perhaps not in 1940, but it got tehre So would have the XP-50. I think the main change from what WAS would be to size it for the smaller engines, and I think it COULD have been done quite well.
Nope, the 'metal, pre (Sea) Hornet' would be a correct answer
F5F prototypes and production aircraft would use the newest version available. Just as Spitfires were powered by the newest available version of the RR Merlin engine and Me-109s were powered by the newest available version of the DB601 / DB605 engine.
1,200 hp engines are not mandatory for F5F prototypes and the initial production version.