Trebuchet
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Yesterday YouTube recommended a video about the Brewster Buccaneer, which was apparently thought to be WWII's worst airplane. I hadn't heard of it but it makes the hapless Buffalo sound good.
Mike!
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Everything you want in a fighter/bomber...
wikipedia said:
A design model copied by Detroit in the 70's and 80's.
MRC_Hans
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AH, the Bumble Bee. Back in my flight sim days, I worked a bit with that. Seems only marginally possible to fly in the real world.
Hans
Long thread but I don't think anyone has posted the McDonnell XF-85 Goblin yet. A "parasitic" fighter meant to be carried long range in the bay of a bomber, dropped, and provide defense over target only to be recovered after:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_XF-85_Goblin
The FICON project had a similar goal of extending fighter range but used more conventional fighters externally attached wingtip to wingtip of the bomber.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FICON_project
Both were very tricky in practice and both were terminated with the successful development of air to air refueling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_XF-85_Goblin
The FICON project had a similar goal of extending fighter range but used more conventional fighters externally attached wingtip to wingtip of the bomber.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FICON_project
Both were very tricky in practice and both were terminated with the successful development of air to air refueling.
Trebuchet
Penultimate Amazing
Ah, yes. My Dad had a Vega. In fact, he had two of them! I've long believed that Detroit in that era intentionally built bad small cars, so they wouldn't take sales from the more profitable big ones. The sales, of course, went to Japan anyhow.