The P-39 was incapible of operating at the altitute that the German Bombers would be at which is why it became a groung support aircraft. The P-40 while a fine aircraft by 1944 was obsolete. What would be needed were the P-47 and the P-51.
217 MPH cruising speed? So it'ld be an almost 30 hour flight from Brest to New York and back? Going to need some Nazi überpilot for that one, and lots of coffee.![]()