A two-man crew sat under an extensively glazed cockpit, with the pilot and navigator/rear gunner sitting in a staggered side-by-side arrangement. The main landing gear retracted forwards, and the twin-wheeled front gear retracted to the rear. A single large fin and rudder was mounted at the rear. The large area wing was swept back at approximately 26 degrees, and two Daimler-Benz DB 603 or Jumo 213 piston engines were buried in the wings, each driving a 3.4 meter (11.2 feet) pusher propeller. As many components of the Me 410 were to be used as possible to save time on factory retooling. This would save on strategic materials and keep the weight lower. "The Me 329 was a tailless design, and was to be constructed mainly of wood. Good dogfighters bring ammo home, Great ones don't. I have seen 3 flyable f5us at a airshow many years back, they reached over 500mph and were more manueverable then most fighters of its day.
Two 1.350PS Pratt & Whitney R-2000-7 radials It would have entered service in the late 1940â´s and served well for at least 10 or fifteen years.Ĭhance-Vought XF-5U-1 U.S. Several hours of patrol at low speed with one torpedo or some depth charges, rockets, ASV-radar and cannons! Now compare this with the potential of the F-5U STOL from escort carriers and modified freighters, Later, helicopters provided air support in this role. They needed more than 5000PS! In the ASW-role (Anti submarine warfare) they were completely useless. Lockheed XFV-1 were able to start vertically, but only without the necessary amounts of ammonition and fuel. Navy in the 1950â´s: The Convair XFY-1 and the With small aircraft carriers would have found a perfect plane for their naval purposes in the F-5U The development of the F-5U and its concept was much too slow for World War II, but several navies Were cancelled in 1948, the Navy had lost interest in piston-engined fighters. That the special articulated propellers were delivered. An interesting innovation was the use of metaliteįor the skin, a sandwich of balsa between two layers of aluminum. The airframes were completed in August, 1945.
Based on the success of the V-173, the Navy ordered two XF5U-1 prototypes in 1944. It had an oval combined fuselage/wing, two 80PS enginesĪnd a fixed landing gear. In 1938, they began to design the V-173 experimentalĪircraft and after its first flight in november 23, 1942, it showed the extremely low stall speed It wasnt a fiction aircraft it was used by the USĬhance-Vought wanted to develop a highspeed fighter-bomber that could operate out of small aircraftĬarriers and stay in the air for several hours.
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