Bearcat
Banned
MY DESIGN!!! I DECIDE HOW TO ARM IT!!![]()
I nonetheless decide to be a PITA and vote for three prototype 20mm Vulcan Gatling guns...
Go ahead, Goering... Make. My. Day.
MY DESIGN!!! I DECIDE HOW TO ARM IT!!![]()
Did they have those back then...? If so i think i have a new armament!I nonetheless decide to be a PITA and vote for three prototype 20mm Vulcan Gatling guns...
Go ahead, Goering... Make. My. Day.![]()
That's because it was converted to fighter bomber out of necessity. When
the swept-winged MiG-15 entered the war, flown by Soviet pilots, out of
the PRC, it proved to be a terrible fighter. That was why the F-86 was sent to
Korea in the first place. The P-80 became the F-80 after the Air Force changed its nomenclature. Also, there was another fighter bomber in Korea
at the time, that was the F-84. Korea also turned out be the last wars of both the F-51, (formerly P-51), Mustang, and the F4U Corsair. The last
Corsair rolled off the assembly line in 1952. The last Mustang rolled off the
assembly line in the mid-50s.
SWEET!!!General Electric was doing studies in the late '40s about a Gatling-type gun, so it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility. (BTW, that led to the GAU-8 Avenger).
But i like bubblegumYou did catch the whole eight years old thing right?
Why am I asking, of course you didn't. Never mind.
Korea was far from the last war for wither the F4U or the Mustang. The French flew Corsairs in Vietnam, Algeria, and during the Sues Crisis (where the IAF flew Mustangs). The Hondurans and Salvadorans BOTH flew them in the 1969 dust up after the soccer game (Hondurans used P-51s as well). The Indonesians flew Mustangs against the British, RAAF, & RNZAF as late as the early 1960s. In the name of the Alt History gods read something that didn't come wrapped up with bubble gum.
SWEET!!!
But i like bubblegum
I'll continue the designing into tomorrow. providing for a "more conventional bell aircraft design"So far you're doing okay.
But watch it. No Bubbles exceeding 18" are allowed without a permit.
NEVER!!! Oh... and Fuel Tank location doesn't mean very much. I mean... there are two fuel reserve tanks in the Horizontal Stab.Try losing the radiator intakes from the Lightning. Also, the wing root guns preclude the natural fuel tank location, and the tail has too much interference drag. Try the tail of the OV-10 Bronco. And unframe the cockpit canopy.
because they didn't improve the design. I did.The P-59 with J-33 engines. The P-83. Performance was disappointing.

HAHA! well... you have a point... But i have something else in mind.
The Bell 16-529 Prototype (also known as the Bell P-74)
Armament:
4x .50 caliber machine guns in the nose.
1x 30 mm cannon in the nose
2x 20 mm cannons in the wing roots
4x .30 caliber machine guns in the wing leading edge
It could be tested throughout 1943 and operational by mid-1944. and it would use the same engine as the P-80, though using 2 instead of 1. as the Engine was available by 1942
IF you really want to do some major breakage, replace the entire nose armament with a Molins S gun and put 4 H-S 20mms in the wings. Now that would kick some serious butt.