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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! |
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"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. |
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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... |
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