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Essential and Dispensible WW2 aircraft.
On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:10:50 -0700, Eunometic
wrote: Yes but the P-47B or P-47C didn't have the tail tank and therefor range yet. The D didn't get it until the tear-drop canopy version, IIRC. In any case, the N variant didn't turn up until the Merlin-engined P-51 - with rear fuselage fuel tanks - had been in action for more than a year. If pressed to find a solution to extra tankage it would have been possible to introduce a tanked wing earlier i feel. Possibly; but when know that despite extending fighter escort range being a critical priority for the USAAF, the P-47D with increased internal fuel capacity wasn't available until well into 1944. You might as well speculate what might have happened if the USAAF had actually increased the internal fuel capacity of the Spitfire VIIIs and IXs they had been using in the MTO for a full year before Giles and Arnold got another two Spit IXs from the UK to do the same. Or you could speculate about the USAAF overcoming institutional resistance to the P-51 before the RAF had to ram the initial test reports of the type down Arnold's throat. One of the critical factors overlooked in all this is the pressure for monthly production output to sustain combat operations. One reason that the USAAF could rely upon the Merlin-engined P-51 is that it didn't entail the reduction or cancellation of other types currently in production. Gavin Bailey -- Solution elegant. Yes. Minor problem, use 25000 CPU cycle for 1 instruction, this why all need overclock Pentium. Dumbass. - Bart Kwan En |
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