On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 15:25:34 -0600, "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote:
>"R2D2" wrote in message news:vpcmdbp6vfu2bror41mvj1eh85vh35cg79@4ax.com...
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>On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 12:53:40 -0600, "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote:
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>> Dear god, this looks like it's from some retro B-series SF movie. Or Mad
>> Max in the air!
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>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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