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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

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RE: Mystery Ship

brad kaste

brad kaste

Charter Member
RE: Mystery Ship

.....Can you name this mystery aircraft?
Hints:
-It was a conglomerate of parts and looked it!
-First designed as an interceptor but changed
to a long distance escort aircraft.
-Manufacture's name not all that familiar
-Prototype first flew in November of 1943
-Had an Allison engine
-Six were only produced
-Eventually canceled due to underachieved test
results. Truly an ugly duckling.

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Well done Quicksand. That's correct,... it was the Fisher P-75 Eagle. :ernae:
Boy,...I'll need to dig a bit deeper next time for more obscure aircraft!
 
I just read thru a book that had a short history of this bird, Brad. If not for that, I never would have known...
 
I knew they had been restoring it, but wasn't aware of it's completion. It probably never looked that good!

If I recall correctly, that airplane has been crashed a few times.

The design was intended to utilize parts from other airplanes.

For flightsim, I believe Tim Conrad did one back in the FS2000-2002 days. I modified it for CFS2. It was pretty cool.
 
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