On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 06:55:50 -0400, Cub Driver
wrote:


The XP-47 was ordered in 1939, and the XP-47B with a PW 2800 engine in
January 1940. Did the USAAC even know about the FW-190 in January
1940?


I'd consider that unlikely, but facts like that have never stopped our nazi
loving BS merchant here.

I would say that the two American fighters were sui generis: The
Bigger the Better.

I once read an article where the XP-72 was described as something which
would have given AS Yakovlev a massive coronary.



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