XP-39 II - The Groundhog Day Thread

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Well, it rather depends on whether we're talking internal or external nutsacks. The latter are higher drag but the the poor groundhog may lack the internal capacity or fortitude for the former.

It's the main reason they went to triple-staged super-turbocharging, with Nitrous Oxide boost! To overcome heavier external nutsacks.
 
Here he is, attempting to rotate, but I don't know if his nutsack is effecting his COG or not, I would think so, unless he forgot to remove his IFF.
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Having grown up where it reaches minus 40 I would be more concerned about over cooling. At 20,00 feet it gets cold enough to freeze the proverbial brass monkey.

This is the groundhog thread. If you want to start a monkey thread (brass or otherwise) be my guest.

That said, we all know that monkeys were highly capable weapon systems that had none of the tumbling or altitude limitations of the groundhog. Overall, a far superior platform that tended to invoke dread in its adversaries.

Below are photographs from the various flight trials of the MkI, MkII and MkIII monkey with the differing wing forms that were unique to each variant:

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Didn't the Japanese try to attack the U.S.A. by spreading Anthrax with flying monkeys?

They WOULD have used Samurai Kamakaze groundhogs, but there was no way to transport them across the Pacific Ocean in such a way as to leave them combat ready when they got there. Groundhogs do NOT do well at sea, and their nutsacks shrink more than can be tolerated. All they wanted to do when they got to the U.S.A. was kiss the ground.

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They WOULD have used Samurai Kamakaze groundhogs, but there was no way to transport them across the Pacific Ocean in such a way as to leave them combat ready when they got there. Groundhogs do NOT do well at sea, and their nutsacks shrink more than can be tolerated. All they wanted to do when they got to the U.S.A. was kiss the ground.

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Wait - didn't the Japanese have long range sea otters with groundhog hangars behind their conning towers? In the stormy north Pacific, the ride is much less nutsack-shrinking two hundred feet down. A fleet of these could have devastated the west coast. Good thing they didn't think of it!
 
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