michaelmaltby
Colonel
... it made sense for Canadian built merlin-powered AC used Packards
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Looks like the runt of a litter from a mama Mossie cat!I would like to mention an aircraft that everyone here overlooked, especially those that voted for the Mosquito - the De Havilland D.H. 103 Hornet. None left, unfortunately, but you've got to love a plane that could keep up with a Spitfire with only one engine running and that could be looped with both engines off. And just look at it!
True. The VLRE guys in 51s to Japan had a miserable time at 10+ hours plus the weather, fighters,fuel, navigation. No wonder they got twice the mission credit time!but I think the long range guy pushed it to the limits
It looks more like a Seversky than a Focke-Wulf, to be honest....any fan of the FW-190 may also like Sweden's "wooden wonder" the FFVS J22...
The Packard V-1650 series was used in the Spitfire Mk.XVI
It was also used in the Mosquito B.VII, Lancaster B.III (and I believe the B.X) and the Hurricane Mk.X
Is this the photo you're thinking of?For sure! I think their most advanced fighter at the time was an export version of the P-35.
I'd have to look it up again, but I think there was talk of the Swedes getting the P-43, as well, just before the US shut down the supply line.
Somewhere there's a pic of a J-22 and an FW-190 sitting next to each other at an airfield and they're almost identical....can't seem to find that pic anymore.
Elvis
Poor darlings, the Spit PR missions were just as long if not longer and they were on their ownTrue. The VLRE guys in 51s to Japan had a miserable time at 10+ hours plus the weather, fighters,fuel, navigation. No wonder they got twice the mission credit time!
Poor darlings, the Spit PR missions were just as long if not longer and they were on their own
Is this the photo you're thinking of?
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They do look close to one another, maybe enough to be mistaken for each other at a distance, but I still feel that the J22's lines follow closer to the Seversky SEV-2 (P-35) or even Vultee's P-66. Sweden did take delivery of 60 Severskys in 1940, before the U.S. stopped exporting, so it comes as no surprise that there would be some similarities!
It appears that the J22 was never equipped with either feature.Did the J22 have self sealing fuel tanks and armor?
Do you prefer the earlier razorback or the later bubble canopy?Most beautiful, the P-47. What can I say, I like big Jugs.
Well I guess its true about the old quote.."No matter how bad you think you have it there's always someone worse off!"Poor darlings, the Spit PR missions were just as long if not longer and they were on their own