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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Baloo: [QB] The359: Partially "swing-winged"? I think the word you were looking for was [i]flexible[/i]. Swing-wing aircraft can adjust the amount of sweep, either on the ground or in flight. Just wanted to point out that the P-51, arguably the greatest fighter of World War II, started out as a mediocre plane. The original, unsupercharged Allison V-12 was basically similar to the one used in the P-39 Aircobra. Performance fell off rapidly as altitude increased. What saved the Mustang from becoming another so-so aircraft was the British performing a little kitbash of their own. Substituting the Merlin engine from the Spitfire (a much smaller, shorter-ranged aircraft) transformed the Mustang from a decent plane into a rip-snortin' butt-kickin' seriously lethal fighter, on a performance par with the best planes the Germans or the Japanese could field at the time. Visual differences between the Allison-powered and Merlin-powered versions were few. The Allison had a small air intake just above the propeller that the merlin-powered plane didn't, and though I'm sure the nose profile was fairly similar, I imagine the placement of the crankshaft (and thus the thrustline) was different in each plane. --Baloo If Bernd (or someone else) would oblige, I think there are many other examples of kitbashed and re-scaled planes we could examine. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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