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Who you gonna call?
Yeh forget all that "Mustang" nonsense and build us a proper plane.North American Aviation, Inglewood, USA.
You are ordering a new fighter in 1943 to enter service subsequently.Sorry to complicate things, but do you want to place an order for an entirely new fighter in 1943, expecting it to enter service subsequently or do you want your fighter to enter service in 1943? Yup, I'm complicating things, but the two questions can have very different answers. The former means you can look at jet designs, which in 1943 the options were limited but technology and knowledge within a year were expanding, so choose your framer for example and then your powerplant manufacturer.
The latter extends the search for a designer a little more of course...
Paging Mr. Johnson
Paging Mr Whittle
By June 1943 initiation and first flight early 1944 I'm focused on postwar. I want the Horten brothers or the likes of the Kyushu J7W Shinden's Massaoki Tsuruno.Greetings All,
Let's say its June, 1943 and you are planning the development of a new single engine fighter. For the sake of valuing skill and talent assume that the designer of your choice will not be limited by shortages created by the war or a nation's inability to develop an engine. For instance, imagine what someone like Tomio Kubo could have done if designing in America instead of Japan. You have six months to first flight.
Who you gonna call?
No. He was too busy dating a widow at night. He liked her cause she had a big turret bustle.Shall we try to get a hold of Mr. Northrop?
This response is why I created the question. If the P-51 Mustang didn't get the merlin would we think of Edgar Schmued in the same way? Probably not.North American Aviation, Inglewood, USA.
It would then have been a "what if". The British used their Allisson engined Mustangs until they ran out of them, no other plane could do what it did.This response is why I created the question. If the P-51 Mustang didn't get the merlin would we think of Edgar Schmued in the same way? Probably not.
Edgar Schmued is basically unknown, apart by the aircraft history aficionados. They can note him as a person behind the Sabre and F-5, apart from Mustang. Looks like a successful career to me.This response is why I created the question. If the P-51 Mustang didn't get the merlin would we think of Edgar Schmued in the same way? Probably not.
Are you sure you want to fly a dangerous monster?By June 1943 initiation and first flight early 1944 I'm focused on postwar. I want the Horten brothers or the likes of the Kyushu J7W Shinden's Massaoki Tsuruno.
Interestingly, nothing from Hawker ever broke the sound barrier…..unless we count the Avro Arrow, produced by an offshore unit of Hawker-Siddeley. Hawker's postwar fighters were slugs (and often very late to the party, taking many years from ideation to service entry) compared to what the Soviets and Americans were able to accomplish with their British-derived jet engines. Even the postwar French were fielding better aircraft than Hawker.Ahem - Sydney Camm of Hawker would like a word. A few credits include the Hurricane, Typhoon (with caveats), Tempest, Sea Fury, Hunter and the Kestrel/Harrier family.