Corsair jet?

[Flashonyrsix]

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?
Norm

[agent86]

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

[Tailspin Turtle]

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?
Norm

Pax River, January 1944

[Cherrybomber13]

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

[k5083]

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

August

[bdk]

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

[The Inspector]

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

[Flashonyrsix]

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

[mike furline]

Some info,

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

[Rob Mears]

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

[whistlingdeath77]

whistling death or jet powered death!?

[Tiger Tim]

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?

-Tim

[Tailspin Turtle]

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...

[whistlingdeath77]

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