North American P-500 (SC-46) lightweight fighter proposal

[hesham]

Nice work my dear Justo,but there's a problem,

that we ignore an existed topic for the same subject,Why ?!,

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/th...ghtweight-fighter-proposal.44387/#post-263820

 

[Antonio]

merged

 

[Justo Miranda]

Nice work, although the drawings give the impression of a somewhat stubbier aircraft that the original artwork suggests:

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I think the same, but I have been working with the original engine dimensions (1,575-mm length, 818-mm high and 711-mm width) for the fuselage, with the minimum width of the pilot's shoulders and the head-tailbone distance for the cockpit, with a correction factor for the optical distortion of the original drawings and the result is what we can see in the scale drawings. I would have preferred to draw a fuselage 20 per cent longer, but I think the designer's intention was to save construction materials for large manufacturing series (Polikarpov style) and he preferred to use unusually large tail surfaces.