Hello Smilo,
As you like wild birds, I´m sure you´ll like a Tigercat!
Having a garden or living near a forest is great for wild birds
and other animals. My brother once had a weasel visiting
- it took care of a mole that had made a mess of the vegetables.
A skunk lived under his house for a while too!

California (my heart bleeds with the news of the current fire disaster
there) is better for wildlife than here, but we have are interesting lizards
in the mountains, including rare, shiny metallic copper ones with a black
stripe down the side.

Though no garden, we have an outside patio, so our ginger cat is as wild
as can be got here in the urban surroundings.

Anyway - we are not totally off topic: The plane´s the Tigercat.
Tigers are wild, Cats sometimes too, also weasels, moles and skunks.
Birds fly, and planes do too!

So, everything here is on-topic, WILD being the operative word.
According to quite a few, the Tigercat was just about the wildest plane
in the Navy and the Marine Corps at the time, so it definitely makes for
an exciting project.

The .air file will obviously be quite a challenge. The 1st production model
Tigercat engines seem to be quite close to the engine on the P47d, so
that one could be souped up just a little to meet the specs.

Propeller size seems very similar too, but with 3 blades instead of the 4.
Ceiling was 36200 ft and Critical Altitude 19200 ft, lower than for the P47d,
so the supercharger will need a some adjusting.

WEP Power on this Tigercat was 2x2400 Hp at 2800 RPM, and at 1000 ft, it
did 400 mph. RoC was 4360 fpm. That sounds pretty darn wild, and will make
it quite fantastic to build, I´d say.

In the next few days I´ll turn the 3-views into some 2D AF99 templates for
the basic shape-layout, and to get a platform for a first draft of the .air file.
...with a new thread, of course!

Cheers,
Aleatorylamp