Not really a variant, per se, just designed by the same dudes (Ed Heinemann and his band at Douglas) in the same era for a lot of the same requirements.Looks like a variant of an F3D
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Little known / experimental aircraft
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Good video on the ultimate Corsair, the F4U-5. Did not know that Soviet fighters had to manually adjust mixture in flight?
The first aircraft aircraft produced for the military by Bell was the YFM-1 Airacuda. A 5 person heavy fighter first flown on September 1, 1937, it was designed to hunt bombers. Each nacelle had a 37mm cannon with a loader in front of the 1090 hp Allison engine and pusher propeller. With a top speed of only 277, it was not a successful design- only 13 were produced.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_YFM-1_Airacuda
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_YFM-1_Airacuda
The 2 airfoils at the aft bottom: any info on how they operated?
Not clear from photos, but they folded to a horizontal position for T/O and landing. I believe they were otherwise fixed. See the drawing -- barely cleared the horizontal tail surfaces when folded.
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The first Chrysler Hemi was actually an airplane engine, the XIV-2220. making 2,500 HP, it was a liquid cooled inverted V-16 displacing 2,200 cubic inches - although the propeller reduction gearbox was midway in the cylinder banks. Tested on a modified Republic P-47D (in this case called a P-47H) it arrived too late in the war and was not put into production.
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The XP-47H; Shark-Nosed Thunderbolt - Forgotten Aircraft - Military Matters
The P-47 is the definition of the big, radial-engine fighter. What sort of inline engine could fit in such a rotund plane? Hint: A BIG one!
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Estimated at a very fast 490 mph; but at the same time a lightened P-47J with a more powerful Pratt R-2800 hit a blistering 504 mph.
For a Saturday night: how would the Navy’s Corsairs and Hellcats do against the Luftwaffe’s ME-109s and FW-190s?
The Super Phrog, Boeing Vertol 360.
One of the meanest fighter designs, Ever!
A very interesting question... my gut feeling is that the Hellcat would not have done very well against the Luftwaffe. The Corsair probably better. It was a very different air war in the ETO compared to the Pacific. If the war had lasted longer, the Marine Tigercats and the Navy Bearcats would have done pretty well.
Sorry to quote Tom Cruise, but it’s not the aircraft, it’s the pilot! The average naval aviator of late ‘44 or early ‘45 would have had vastly more experience than the average Luftwaffe pilot. An interesting way to look at it this…the P-51 (and good pilots) proved to be a superior design to German models but the Corsair proved to be superior to the P-51 during the “Football War!” On a more serious note, you can read about the Navy’s analysis (1944) of the two aircraft from the Pax River team here, https://militaryhistorynow.com/2021...-up-between-the-two-fighters/#google_vignette it briefly notes testing that was done against some axis fighters…both the Corsair and Hellcat could turn inside the German models, something the P-51 could not do.