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on: 08-26-2011
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Description:
Fisher P-75 Eagle...
Envisioned, designed, and built as cheaply as possible for one sole reason: To serve as an excuse by GM so that the US Government wouldn't take over their Fisher Body Plant during the war. |
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8-26-2011 @ 11:20:02 AM |
Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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A mid-engined aircraft no less, and most of the parts were just copied wholesale from other designs, little wonder it was a dud. |
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8-26-2011 @ 04:51:26 PM |
Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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A short list of "worst" aircraft include quite a few contra-rotating designs, it seems that the complex gearboxes and mechanisms to make them work always cause headaches and the usual teething-troubles and the plane usually gets written off as a failure before the bugs can be ironed out. I can't think of any contra-rotating design aircraft that actually made it to service with the USAF, all kinda fizzled out in the prototype stages. |
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8-27-2011 @ 04:24:49 PM |
Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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#5, Another short lived experimental phase was turboprop fighters, again, by the time the kinks of supersonic-prop-driven aircraft were worked out, faster pure jet engines had been developed. |
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