By: Kernowglyn - 27th January 2007 at 23:36
Always a pleasure to assist a kindred spirit!
By: Lord Vader - 27th January 2007 at 22:53
Thank you very much for your kind reply 🙂
By: Kernowglyn - 27th January 2007 at 14:20
[QUOTE=Lord Vader;1073825]Some info state that result and data from wind tunnel test from this plane was brought and used in development of Mustang. Any more info about this?
According to Michael O’Leary in his tome USAAF Fighters of WW2 states
“The quality of work coming from the Curtiss design departmant also leads to interesting speculation on the creation pf the North American NA-73X – the aircraft that led directly to the Mustang. North American, having little experience in the military combat field was forced by the Army to purchase vast amounts of Curtiss wind tunnel data, for what the Army hoped would be a good education from Curtiss. Unfortunately for Curtiss, North American had their own fighter ideas and did not let the rather dated concepts from Curtiss slow down work on the NA-73X – contrary to some ill-informed historians who have misguidedly suggested that the Mustang was really designed by pirating of Curtiss data.”
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January 27, 2007 at 12:49 pm