RE: Mystery Ship

[brad kaste]

.....Can you name this mystery aircraft?
Hints:
-It was a conglomerate of parts and looked it!
-First designed as an interceptor but changed
to a long distance escort aircraft.
-Manufacture's name not all that familiar
-Prototype first flew in November of 1943
-Had an Allison engine
-Six were only produced
-Eventually canceled due to underachieved test
results. Truly an ugly duckling.

http://i546.photobucket.com/albums/hh418/1944bradkaste/scan0002.jpg

[Quicksand]

GM (Fisher) P-75A?...:salute:

[lefty]

Actually, it had two Allison engines coupled together........:mixedsmi:

[brad kaste]

Well done Quicksand. That's correct,... it was the Fisher P-75 Eagle. :ernae:
Boy,...I'll need to dig a bit deeper next time for more obscure aircraft!

[Quicksand]

I just read thru a book that had a short history of this bird, Brad. If not for that, I never would have known...

[Moses03]

They recently restored one at Dayton-Wright. A sleek looking ship I think!

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet_media.asp?fsID=8754

[Railrunner130]

I knew they had been restoring it, but wasn't aware of it's completion. It probably never looked that good!

If I recall correctly, that airplane has been crashed a few times.

The design was intended to utilize parts from other airplanes.

For flightsim, I believe Tim Conrad did one back in the FS2000-2002 days. I modified it for CFS2. It was pretty cool.