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 Post subject: Corsair jet?
PostPosted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 10:40 pm 
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A freind lent me a Northrup Aironatical book that says a Corsair flew with a Westinghouse Yankee jet engine in 1943. The jet was mounted under the corsair, are there any photos?
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Kinda like a Ryan Fireball, I'm not so sure I would want to fly in a plane named "Fireball". Know wut I mean? Bad JUJU

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Flashonyrsix wrote:
A freind lent me a Northrup Aironatical book that says a Corsair flew with a Westinghouse Yankee jet engine in 1943. The jet was mounted under the corsair, are there any photos?
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Pax River, January 1944


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Man screw the Nitrous! I can imagine the look on a few Zero pilots faces if that would have ever made it into production.

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Would have made for some mighty interesting deck landing accidents, and couldn't have done much for ditching behavior either.

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Somehow I think this would have been a test of the engine, not a proposal to retrofit Corsairs for more power.


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See, the late Jim Franklin wasn't that far off the mark.

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Thanks for the photo, now I wonder if it flew with jet power alone.
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Some info,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_J30


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Ooh, that's an early Goodyear FG-1 Corsair too. 8)

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whistling death or jet powered death!?

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whistlingdeathcorsairs wrote:
whistling death or jet powered death!?

I would think screaming death.

Am I the only one who saw the thread title and pictured something like the Focke Wulf 190 jet installation?

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One of the early uses envisaged for the jet engine was as a thrust augmenter on propeller-driven fighters and bombers for takeoff and combat. However, I don't know if this FG-1 configuration was an evaluation of that concept or merely a means to get the engine in the air. Maybe both...


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maybe something to do with getting the extra push for take-offs from a carrier with lots of ordinence? I'm thinking more about performance tho

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