Look this up in your Funk and Wagnalls

Sat Jul 21, 2012 4:08 pm

LOCKHEED XP-73 SWORDSTAR, always suspected LOCOWEED had a bunch of opium smokers locked in the basement- :lol:

Sat Jul 21, 2012 6:09 pm

Sat Jul 21, 2012 6:45 pm

I think we can all agree that looks like it was built out of leftover -38 parts.

Sat Jul 21, 2012 8:01 pm

Enemy Ace wrote:I think we can all agree that looks like it was built out of leftover -38 parts.

I think we can all agree that it looks like a figment of somebody's over-active imagination.

Sat Jul 21, 2012 8:04 pm

Mike wrote:
Enemy Ace wrote:I think we can all agree that looks like it was built out of leftover -38 parts.

I think we can all agree that it looks like a figment of somebody's over-active imagination.

Actually, made from spare parts of the XP-58 'CHAIN LIGHTNING' project including one of those 'fabulous' W-3420 ALLISON monsters.

Sat Jul 21, 2012 8:18 pm

The Inspector wrote:Actually, made from spare parts of the XP-58 'CHAIN LIGHTNING' project including one of those 'fabulous' W-3420 ALLISON monsters.

Actually, made from left-over digits and a butchered photo of the XP-58 :roll:

Sat Jul 21, 2012 9:33 pm

Mike wrote:
The Inspector wrote:Actually, made from spare parts of the XP-58 'CHAIN LIGHTNING' project including one of those 'fabulous' W-3420 ALLISON monsters.

Actually, made from left-over digits and a butchered photo of the XP-58

So, this really a LUFT 46 type deal?

Sat Jul 21, 2012 9:53 pm

Some of its relatives..........

http://aviadesign.online.fr/usa-lockheed.htm

Mark H

Sat Jul 21, 2012 10:00 pm

Actually, the XP-73 designation was assigned to Howard Hughes' D-2 aircraft, but went unused as Hughes decided not to take up the fighter designation for his aircraft, nor to eventually sell it to the AAF.

Walt

Sat Jul 21, 2012 10:35 pm

Guys. It's a jackalope with wings.

Mark H

Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:09 am

OK, MEA CULPA- The info was sent to me from a formerly reliable source so I screwed up by not doing my due diligence first.
That particular source is now on 'Double secret probation'.
I apologize to all- :oops:

Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:16 am

If you look at the link above there is a whole site of aircraft designed and built with photoshop.

There were 2 other references to it. Both told enough of a story to make you think about it. But if I haven't heard of it in 50 years of reading about WWii planes it probably doesn't exist.

Mark H