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Light fighters alternatives, 1935-1945 (6 Viewers)
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Let me ask you without horns and a tail.....does this not look to you more Mustang than an I -16 ?
This moved 550 kph with 870 hp engine...Me-109 E needed 1100 hp to go 560 kph.
H-1 racer went 566 kph at 1000 hp.
Hughes H-1 Racer - Wikipedia
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cammerjeff
Tech Sergeant
Of course it looks more like a P-51A than an I-16 mainly because it has a Liquid cooled V-12 engine, not an air cooled Radial engine. Again common end goals with simalure equipment and technolagy of the day often resault in simelure design solutions.
As for your idea thant is landing gear may have influnced the FW 190's landing gear design, that is inaccurate, the prototype FW 190 first flew in June of 1939, And the design was completed at least a year before then, and the Germans would have evaluated the 2nd prototype at least a year after the FW 190 prototype flew.
Using your logic does that mean that the Loire-Nieport LN.401 design was the forrunner of the CAO 200 because it uses a liquid cooled V-12 engine, and also employes auxilery vertical tail surfaces?
Loire-Nieuport LN.401 - Wikipedia
No but they claim it was a Loire 161 decendant. I don't see any similarities...but a P-51A is almost a spitting image...from certain angles.Of course it looks more like a P-51A than an I-16 mainly because it has a Liquid cooled V-12 engine, not an air cooled Radial engine. Again common end goals with simalure equipment and technolagy of the day often resault in simelure design solutions.
As for your idea thant is landing gear may have influnced the FW 190's landing gear design, that is inaccurate, the prototype FW 190 first flew in June of 1939, And the design was completed at least a year before then, and the Germans would have evaluated the 2nd prototype at least a year after the FW 190 prototype flew.
Using your logic does that mean that the Loire-Nieport LN.401 design was the forrunner of the CAO 200 because it uses a liquid cooled V-12 engine, and also employes auxilery vertical tail surfaces?
Loire-Nieuport LN.401 - Wikipedia
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Without the two fins.
Does it look like a Messerschmitt 109 ?
The CAO 200 is from 1938.Of course it looks more like a P-51A than an I-16 mainly because it has a Liquid cooled V-12 engine, not an air cooled Radial engine. Again common end goals with simalure equipment and technolagy of the day often resault in simelure design solutions.
As for your idea thant is landing gear may have influnced the FW 190's landing gear design, that is inaccurate, the prototype FW 190 first flew in June of 1939, And the design was completed at least a year before then, and the Germans would have evaluated the 2nd prototype at least a year after the FW 190 prototype flew.
Using your logic does that mean that the Loire-Nieport LN.401 design was the forrunner of the CAO 200 because it uses a liquid cooled V-12 engine, and also employes auxilery vertical tail surfaces?
Loire-Nieuport LN.401 - Wikipedia
cammerjeff
Tech Sergeant
You do realize that the Prototype of the P 51 ( the NA-73X) 1st flew on October 26th 1940, and the design was started in 1938? Before the CAO 200 1st flew or was revieled to the world. They just look somewhat alike, just like most 4-door sedans of the same era look very much alike.
If you don't see that then I am done, beleive what you will.
If you don't see that then I am done, beleive what you will.
