Ah sorry, on that I was just having fun with modifing the Mig-9.
The very short version for aircraft: 1 syllable piston or turboprop engine, 2 syllables jet. First letter of the word indicates type: F fighter, B bomber, M trainer/special purpose and so forth. The words chosen are very often deliberately weird and rare to make it clear that an aircraft (and which specific type) is meant.
I wonder how good it would've been if the 335 was modified to use jet engines.
It might have worked out pretty well, there wouldn't have been the over heating problems with the rear engine as in OTL and if the jet engine conked out for any reason the prop might have been enough to get it back on the ground safely.
The main virtue of the hybrid powerplants might be the "bring 'em back alive" reserve of the prop drive, in case of the temperamental nature of the early jets. Even if the jet flames out, there's a chance a skilled pilot could bring the plane down in one piece and the engineers have more to work with, sorting out what went wrong?
That and take off under your own power with less expensive Jet engine.
Do you do requests ? @LostCosmonaut
Reimagining the FFVS J22 as a late 1930s American design (since it used the same type of engine as the P-36 and P-35 and made mostly of steel tubing and wood panels). RAF, RAAF, and license-produced Swedish versions included for fun.
Very nice.
Fighter from a world in which Austria-Hungary makes it to the early 1940s.
The tailfinn design and camo is super awesome! What was your inspiration for the machine? Looks a bit Messerschmidt meets Dewoitine to me.
In some respects, looking at real interwar designs built in Austria, namely the utility planes drawing-boarded by Meindl, along with other projects drawing-boarded in eastern Europe. The engine's partly inspired by prewar French designs in terms of the chin and radiator but started life as an intention to represent some form of scaled-up offering from Walter, on the assumption they'd be an Austro-Hungarian provider in this timeline. The rudder angle is very much common to the Meindl designs, though I dropped their tendency to use stepped cruciform tails and just went with a standard tailplane. The cockpit takes some inspiration from Italian designers, while the camo is a pretty direct derivative of certain uncommon German forest camo patterns.
This is increadibly cool, you realy put a lot of thought into the design! Do you have a good source on austrain aircraft designs of this era? Its one of the countries where I really dont know anything, but could use some designs for a project im (somewhat) working on.
