Yes Britain wanted them to build P40's but North American said they could do better. 102 days after starting work they did.Actually, the P-51 came about as a result of a BPC request, not the US War Department, so not quite...
Yes Britain wanted them to build P40's but North American said they could do better. 102 days after starting work they did.Actually, the P-51 came about as a result of a BPC request, not the US War Department, so not quite...
Yes Britain wanted them to build P40's but North American said they could do better. 102 days after starting work they did.
Add a rear view mirror. I notice it does not have one.
Actually, the P-51 came about as a result of a BPC request, not the US War Department, so not quite...
Most importantly, in the window of 1939-41, when the XF4F-3 was standardized and went into production as F4F-3, trading as solid a design as the Wildcat for a design (the XF5F-1) that would need even more development time and production resources would have been a huge mistake.
"First rule of Russian flying, what is behind me is not important!"
Movie-paraphrase
Randy
"First rule of Russian flying, what is behind me is not important!"
Movie-paraphrase
Randy
And broken down.It's Soviet Russia. Everything is hard left.
Apparently a Condor hunter. But we'll never find a way to operate them off a MAC ship.
One of my absolute favorite comedy lines of all time...Cheesy movie, but great fun anyway.
It needed a little British wizardry to make P 51 just right though.True. Kindelberger and his team were impressive.
It needed a little British wizardry to make P 51 just right though.
In context the assumed POD is that Grumman goes with the F5F instead of building the F3F for the Navy. (We're avoiding confusion because in such an ATL the F5F would instead be the F3F or maybe the F4F) So the F5F would have the same timeline as the F3F. Randy
It needed a little British wizardry to make P 51 just right though.
And making 3000 F4F so the brits could standardise on the type as well? Maybe overkill in numbers but still probably better value for money than 1500 F5F.Whats to keep Grumman from expanding their factories, or bringing in GM sooner?
I suppose the simplest and most effective way to get F6F Hellcat performance earlier than OTL is not to build the F5F with its two F4F engines but to build the F6F Hellcat earlier. But that means getting the PW R-2800 version for fighters available earlier. How to accomplish that? That shouldn't be so hard to do. The engine was first run back in 1937.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_&_Whitney_R-2800_Double_Wasp
The engine was first run back in 1937.
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No guarantee that the R-2800 would turn out like OTL, that's why the plans for using two engines to get that level of power, since R-1830s or R-1820s were already flying aircraft