What plane is this??? Need to know

[spitfire708]

Need to know what plane this is.  Lost the paper with the name of it.  I forgot what its name.  Is it what was suppose to eb the replacememtn for the p-38?

[HoHun]

Hi Spitfire708,

>Need to know what plane this is.  

Grumman XF5F.

>Is it what was suppose to eb the replacememtn for the p-38?

No.

Regards,

Henning (HoHun)

[Rasker]

Actually I recall that work on the XF5F lead to later development of the F7F Tigercat, just a bit too late  fpr WW2 combat.

[MajorDay]

Originally posted by spitfire708




Need to know what plane this is.  Lost the paper with the name of it.  I forgot what its name.  Is it what was suppose to eb the replacememtn for the p-38?

Lockheed make P-38 not Grumman

[spitfire708]

Thnx

[Ecliptik]

He never said Grumman made the P-38.

[Sikboy]

Originally posted by spitfire708
Is it what was suppose to eb the replacememtn for the p-38?

Check this out:


The one on the bottom was the XP-50, which if I recall correctly was the version intended for USAAC use (well, it was proposed as such), which would have made it more of a competitor of the P--38. since the XF5F was being developed for the Navy.

The lone P-50 crashed after a supercharger blew up, ending the program.

I love these planes, and often wonder how they (especially the F5F) would have compared in combat conditions.

Same goes with the He-100.

Here's a cool page on the F5F/P-50
http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/p50.html
-Sik

[Widewing]

Originally posted by Sikboy
Check this out:


The one on the bottom was the XP-50, which if I recall correctly was the version intended for USAAC use (well, it was proposed as such), which would have made it more of a competitor of the P--38. since the XF5F was being developed for the Navy.

The lone P-50 crashed after a supercharger blew up, ending the program.

I love these planes, and often wonder how they (especially the F5F) would have compared in combat conditions.

Same goes with the He-100.

Here's a cool page on the F5F/P-50
http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/p50.html
-Sik

Actually, the lower photo also shows the XF5F after it was modified and used for gathering data for the XF7F program. Below is a photo of the XP-50, it used a tricycle landing gear (no tail wheel like the XF5F) and the carb inlets atop the cowling rings are omitted with the turbo installation.

 

My regards,

Widewing

[Sikboy]

Originally posted by Widewing
Actually, the lower photo also shows the XF5F after it was modified and used for gathering data for the XF7F program.

Thanks Widewing, It's been years since I've looked at any of this.

-Sik

[frank3]

Looks nice, doesn't look very practical tho...

[spitfire708]

ok....Thnx guys.  But does n e one know what armaments it had?

[MiloMorai]

Originally posted by spitfire708
ok....Thnx guys.  But does n e one know what armaments it had?

For the XP-50 see here

http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/p50.html

[spitfire708]

k thnx