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Click image for larger version Name: bring the XF5U into the jet age, Vought designed the turbine-powered VS-341.jpg Views: 31 Size: 65.4 KB ID: 114956  Click image for larger version Name: Charles Zimmerman’s fighter aircraft from a patent application submitted in 1940.jpg Views: 14 Size: 52.8 KB ID: 114958  Click image for larger version Name: completed XF5U ready for primary engine runs with F4U-4 propellers.jpg Views: 16 Size: 40.7 KB ID: 114959  Click image for larger version Name: complex power drive of the XF5U was the aircraft’s downfall..jpg Views: 21 Size: 58.0 KB ID: 114960  Click image for larger version Name: Ground testing of the V-173, c. 1942.jpg Views: 14 Size: 17.5 KB ID: 114961  

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