Rare and strange warbirds-US

[Canso42]

This is the link that was posted on the Lone Star email forum to which I responded with the contra rotating XP-72 and Corsair.
Enjoy it or get creeped out, whatever spins your prop. Check out some of the other nations' designs too. The four engine Mossie grabbed me.

http://rareaircraf1.greyfalcon.us/UNITED%20STATES.htm

regards,
Doug

[EDowning]

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... hp?t=24082

[bdk]

Seafang or Spiteful- them's my kind of planes!

http://rareaircraf1.greyfalcon.us/picturesm/ae67.jpg
http://rareaircraf1.greyfalcon.us/picturesm/ae66.jpg

Last edited by bdk on Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:51 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[EDowning]

I would like to get me one of them thar Flapjacks, put 3350s on it and race it in the unlimited class at Reno.

[daveymac82c]

Great link! Thanks for posting!

It's actually a very comprehensive website. I'm planning on spending the next several hours... There are some beautiful airplanes, and some very frightening things.

Here's the main page for the website:

http://rareaircraf1.greyfalcon.us/

Cheers,

David M

[The Inspector]

Cool sites! Much Grassy^$$!! I know the ARUP lead directly to the V-173 and the XF5U, it's a shame that the XF5 never flew, but it did demonstrate just how tough METALITE construction was when the Navy had a wrecking ball dropped on the airframe and it bounced off-

[Michel Lemieux]

The rest of the site....http://greyfalcon.us/

Has some pretty interesting readings !!!!!!

I cannot tell left or right......but there are definitively some interesting readings in there

[Canso42]

Scott, please delete this thread. When I started it I didn't realize that Eric already had it covered.

thanks,
Doug

[PeterA]

Seafang or Spiteful- them's my kind of planes!

http://rareaircraf1.greyfalcon.us/picturesm/ae67.jpg
http://rareaircraf1.greyfalcon.us/picturesm/ae66.jpg

Find a Supermarine Attacker Naval Jet, in Pakistan or wherever, to donate the wings and you are more than 50% toward a viable creation of a Seafang. An engine and prop from an Avro Shackleton is a proven conversion. The remainder is well within the scope of the UK Spitfire 'industry'.

Dreams.

PeterA

[tom d. friedman]

xp75......... the biggest turkey of them all, a peverbial frankenstein made from a mish mash of warbird parts, piss poor performance, & the ultimate government boondoggle!!

[bdk]

Find a Supermarine Attacker Naval Jet, in Pakistan or wherever, to donate the wings and you are more than 50% toward a viable creation of a Seafang. An engine and prop from an Avro Shackleton is a proven conversion. The remainder is well within the scope of the UK Spitfire 'industry'.

Dreams.

PeterA

Dreams are well within my means!!!!