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Title: Aircraft of WW2 #10
Post by: Kommandant on February 20, 2004, 10:58:10 PM

Name this Aircraft, and was it ever a Working Design?

(http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Gal1/901-1000/Gal917_X-41_McGowan/01.jpg)

Title: Aircraft of WW2 #10
Post by: United on February 20, 2004, 11:00:24 PM

Looks like an X-4 :lol

Looks like an Old GeeBee racer used by Jimmy Doolittle in the mid to late 1930s.  I do believe it was a Working Design, obviously because Doolittle used it.

Title: Aircraft of WW2 #10
Post by: Kommandant on February 20, 2004, 11:01:41 PM

Yes yes Yes, I am well aware of the Modle number on the Nose, Keep Guessing. Thats not correct United.

Title: Aircraft of WW2 #10
Post by: Rafe35 on February 20, 2004, 11:02:10 PM

X-41 McGowan? :confused:

Title: Aircraft of WW2 #10
Post by: United on February 20, 2004, 11:09:59 PM

That was a joke actually.....

Im assuming you mean the GeeBee is incorrect as well.  But since I looked at it again and it has a jet engine.

It looks like an old model I saw somewhere of a guy who made a "X-41" Gee Bee Jet model, and how he thought it would make a great jet, and no, it was not a working design :)

Title: Aircraft of WW2 #10
Post by: Kommandant on February 20, 2004, 11:23:11 PM

Yep, One of my Friends told me about his Uncle to made this. He took Parts and made a GeeBee Get Fighter. Still I would of loved to of seen this thing fly

Title: Aircraft of WW2 #10
Post by: Jester on February 21, 2004, 12:53:21 AM

It will never fly Orville.  :rolleyes: