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P-75 Eagle: The Worst Fighter Aircraft Of World War II?
19FortyFive ^ | 2/15/2021 | Peter Suicu

Posted on 02/16/2021 6:03:34 AM PST by Onthebrink

The aircraft is actually an example of trying to focus too much on proven designs and common parts. While it incorporated the most powerful inline engine available at the time ā€“ an Allison V-3420, which provided 2,885 horsepower ā€“ and featured a design that utilized many components from other aircraft to help expedite production, flight tests revealed unsatisfactory performance.

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1 posted on 02/16/2021 6:03:34 AM PST by Onthebrink
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To: Onthebrink

Darn that Scientific Method! It doesn’t fit in with what we’re trying to do!


2 posted on 02/16/2021 6:05:27 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: \/\/ayne

Not the worst. But came out way too late.


3 posted on 02/16/2021 6:15:28 AM PST by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: \/\/ayne

The design concept was to use the outer wing panels from the North American P-51 Mustang, the tail assembly from the Douglas A-24 (SBD), and the undercarriage from the Vought F4U Corsair in a general layout much as in the Bell P-39 Airacobra with the engine located amidships with the contra-rotating propellers driven through extension shafts. At an early design stage, however, Curtiss P-40 Warhawk outer wing panels were substituted for the P-51 panels.

A Frankenplane!


4 posted on 02/16/2021 6:18:30 AM PST by null and void (We, MSM, decide what news you can see, and what you can not see, don't you dare call us Not-Sees)
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To: Onthebrink

That was one FUGLY bird. Looks like a P-40, P-51 and a Thunderbolt had a menage a trois.


5 posted on 02/16/2021 6:20:05 AM PST by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me.)
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To: Onthebrink

Nah. I vote for the Brewster Buffalo.


6 posted on 02/16/2021 6:26:16 AM PST by Chainmail (Remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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To: OldGoatCPO

Ending production of that was a mercy killing.


7 posted on 02/16/2021 6:27:31 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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To: Onthebrink

It’s like that Johnny Cash song where he smuggled the parts out of the car plant to build a Cadillac.


8 posted on 02/16/2021 6:27:41 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: Chainmail

me, too

dumbest aircraft design to ever see combat


9 posted on 02/16/2021 6:30:22 AM PST by QualityMan ( I got nuthin...)
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To: QualityMan

It never saw combat.


10 posted on 02/16/2021 6:34:26 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Chainmail

Major Floyd “Red” Parks was unavailable for comment.


11 posted on 02/16/2021 6:34:33 AM PST by White Lives Matter
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To: Onthebrink

The Pontiac Aztec of fighter planes.


12 posted on 02/16/2021 6:36:44 AM PST by Peter W. Kessler ("NUTS!!!")
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"....The test program brought up numerous teething problems, including miscalculation of the fighter's center of mass, failure of the engine to produce its expected power, inadequate engine cooling, high aileron forces at high speed, and poor spin characteristics..."

GM ad slogan "Body by Fisher"


13 posted on 02/16/2021 6:37:16 AM PST by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
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To: QualityMan

Plane isn’t fit to be in the shadow of the XB-70.

My choice for the worst;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_XP-77


14 posted on 02/16/2021 6:38:14 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Covenantor

...but other than that...


15 posted on 02/16/2021 6:40:52 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Chainmail

Buffalo is the worst possible name for a fighter plane, but then it did look like a buffalo with wings.


16 posted on 02/16/2021 6:45:12 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Joe Biden: The best president Chinese money can buy.)
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To: Onthebrink
Photo of P-75 Eagle in flight:

Not gonna lie, it looks cool to me.

17 posted on 02/16/2021 6:54:45 AM PST by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: Fresh Wind

What about the British Fairey Swordfish?


18 posted on 02/16/2021 6:56:08 AM PST by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: Alas Babylon!

LOL! Swordfish isn’t too bad but...


19 posted on 02/16/2021 6:58:51 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Joe Biden: The best president Chinese money can buy.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

I always thought the XB-70 was a badass plane, but whether it was so complicated, expensive, complicated, and over-engineered that it may never have ever gone into production is another question...but a plane that size, carrying a nuclear payload while traveling at Mach 3, yeah.

It sure as hell scared the bejeezus out of the Soviets.

Heck. It reminded me of the last “Jurassic World” movie where they engineer a scary dinosaur that is white, and the woman in charge asks her boss “Do you think it will scare the kids?” and her boss says “Kids? It scares me.”

There is something both cool and brilliant, yet scary about it with those canards, and the look of the cockpit windows and that giant bank of huge jet engines all lined up in a row pointing aft...and that sloped back. Just wow.

It did kind of look like a large, predatory Valkyrie in my mind. Seeing one in the Air Force Museum was a pretty cool experience.


20 posted on 02/16/2021 6:59:09 AM PST by rlmorel ("Iā€™d rather enjoy a risky freedom than a safe servitude." Robby Dinero, USMC Veteran, Gym Owner)
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