Warbird Information Exchange

I would like a B-17 Fortress or a B-29 Superfortress.

If I could own one airplane and money were no object, I would want the Republic XP-72 Superbolt. I would remove its Pratt & Whitney R-4360-13 Wasp Major pre-production engine and put it in storage. I would install a souped up Pratt & Whitney R-4360-19 production engine thats fitted with several nitrous oxide lines, electronic digital fuel engine controller, a 5 foot diameter centrifugal blower/supercharger unit in the rear fuselage thats connected to the R-4360 accessory housing by means of an old NACA-approved fluid coupling and a 10 foot long extension shaft that runs underneath the cockpit floor boards. The new engine should put out no less than 5,800 horsepower or more. I would then strip the airframe of un-necessary weight to lighten up the airframe. Then I would probably name the plane "Wild Thunder," since it was considered during WWII as the ultimate in P-47 Thunderbolt design. Then I would race the XP-72 in the Reno National Air Races in the Silver and Gold Unlimited Class and hopefully win both races.

Otherwise I would settle on a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt and fly it to Oshkosh and other aviation events throughout the country.

Jim

As an USAF Vet it would have to be an Air Force plane. That said the Northrup F-89 Scorpion would be my choice.

I'm gonna second that with the 6 x 20mm cannon armed "C" model


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This would be my choice.

CF-100 by far.

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Olivier Lacombe -- Harvard Mk.4 C-GBQB