Warbird Information Exchange

Here are a few pics of the XP-75 Eagle. Enjoy!

That plane has to bring a smile to your face It is kinda like seeing a clown.

Any progress on the NMUSAF's example? It looks complete (I saw it a few years ago). Every update I have heard was that it was *almost* ready.

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Taken last spring

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They are currently dressing it up right now. It is going to be great looking when it is finished. I heard Spring for the roll out.

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Chris Henry
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I always wondered how this thing got beyond the design stage - or, for that matter, how it got beyond the "drawing on a cocktail napkin" stage .

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

If you look at it, it is actually a bunch of other aircraft parts thrown together. There are parts form the p-40, F4u, P-51, and SBD.

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Chris Henry
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Looks like a new build Reno Racer! Has enough parts for one.

Regards,
Mike

Hi--

To nitpick...this isn't the XP-75, it's the production model P-75A Eagle. The XP was a genuine freak, being an amalgam of parts from aircraft already in production--wings and canopy were P-40, aft end was SBD Dauntless, main gear was F4U. Constructed by the Fisher auto-body division of General Motors. Interesting idea, and it flew more or less okay, but (perhaps unsurprisingly) its performance wasn't a match for airplanes of less "mongrel" origins! Fisher revised the design into an all-new type, the P-75A, and a handful were built for evaluation, one of which, improbably enough, survives. I think it's a striking-looking beast, and wonder how it might have done with a turboprop engine...

Incidentally, a peculiar footnote: there's a gap in the P-series designations just before the Fisher Eagle project. There's no P-73 or P-74, even among unbuilt projects. Retrospectively, however, those two numbers seem occasionally to get assigned to the USAAF's "reverse Lend Lease" Beaufighters (P-73) and Spitfires (P-74). Anyone have a handle on when those references began to be made??

S.

Are you saying that my photos are of the P-75A and not of the XP-75 or are you talking about the one at the Air Force Museum? I'm pretty sure when I scanned them that they said XP-75 but they could have been wrong. Thanks!

Ah... thank you for the correction. I have changed the subject to be correct.

I just had to do it...it was getting too hard to look at.

I call her the V-75 Viagranator!!:wink:

the frankenstein of warbirds.... pieces from other dead carcasses

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!