Author Topic: Performance differences based on different manufacturer. (Read 358 times)

TexMurphy · « **on:** March 15, 2005, 09:42:39 AM »

Another thing Ive been wondering and would like to hear an answer to from you plane gurus.

Some planes had multiple manufacturers like the Corsair (Vought, Brewster and Goodyear), Wildcat (McDonnell-Douglas and GM), B24 and others.

Where there any significant differences in performance between the planes or where they identical?

Also what more planes had multiple manufactueres.

Tex

Soulyss · « **Reply #1 on:** March 15, 2005, 10:17:53 AM »

The only one I've ever really heard of was in the case of the corsair... pilots generally held a lower opinion of the Brewster produced corsairs than say those manufactured by Goodyear... whether this lower opinion translated into some kind of reduced performance I don't know.

Ack-Ack · « **Reply #2 on:** March 15, 2005, 04:44:27 PM »

Wasn't there a similiar issue with one of the P-51 variants that was produced in Texas? Something about having a sub-par propeller.

ack-ack

Aubrey · « **Reply #3 on:** March 15, 2005, 04:54:50 PM »

Lowest bidder syndrome?

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 15, 2005, 09:52:09 PM »

The P-47G was made by Curtis and was so bad it was only used in training, and the rest of the order was canceled.

It was to be the same as the D.

Pei · « **Reply #5 on:** March 16, 2005, 07:45:45 PM »

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Originally posted by Ack-Ack
Wasn't there a similiar issue with one of the P-51 variants that was produced in Texas? Something about having a sub-par propeller.

ack-ack

P-51K was the Texas made version of the P-51D which had a different prop. Not sure if this had any effect on performance though.