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Old March 5th 16, 09:25 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
Byker
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Default Evolution of the B-25

"R2D2" wrote in message ...

On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 12:53:40 -0600, "Byker" wrote:

Dear god, this looks like it's from some retro B-series SF movie. Or Mad
Max in the air!


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.

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