Evolution of the B-25

[Byker]

[R2D2]

On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 12:53:40 -0600, "Byker" > wrote:

Dear god, this looks like it's from some retro B-series SF movie. Or
Mad Max in the air!

[Byker]

"R2D2" wrote in message ...

On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 12:53:40 -0600, "Byker" > wrote:
>
> Dear god, this looks like it's from some retro B-series SF movie. Or Mad
> Max in the air!

There were a lot of weird ones in the run-up to Pearl Harbor, like the
Curtiss-Wright XP-71. A wooden model is as far as it got. Envisioned as a
long-range escort fighter, it would have been larger than the B-25.

[R2D2]

On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 15:25:34 -0600, "Byker" > wrote:

>"R2D2" wrote in message ...
>
>On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 12:53:40 -0600, "Byker" > wrote:
>>
>> Dear god, this looks like it's from some retro B-series SF movie. Or Mad
>> Max in the air!
>
>There were a lot of weird ones in the run-up to Pearl Harbor, like the
>Curtiss-Wright XP-71. A wooden model is as far as it got. Envisioned as a
>long-range escort fighter, it would have been larger than the B-25.

That one I knew: another one of the "heavy fighter" family, like the
Me-110. That late-30's mania producecd some weird ones, like the YFM-1
Airacuda...