BarnOwlLover2
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This pertains to aircraft that were being looked at as using the Packard V-1650 as its powerplant. Of course, there were the Merlin powered P-51s, the early Merlin powered F-82s, and the P-40F/L, and the aborted XP-60s with Merlins before that program went down the radial engine route with the R-2800.
I'm also aware of the Convair XP-81 that initially few with a Merlin prior to the desired turboprop being ready, and the XP-67E Moonbat proposed fighter/recon plane with mixed piston and turbojet power (piston engines were intended to be Rolls-Royce Merlin RM 14SM, Packard V-1650-9 or -11, or two stage Allison V-1710s). And there was references to a document that in 1941 and again later that Lockheed was looking at a Merlin powered P-38.
Does anyone have any details of other projects that I didn't mention, or more details on those that I did aside from the well known P-51s, F-82s and P-40s?
I'm also aware of the Convair XP-81 that initially few with a Merlin prior to the desired turboprop being ready, and the XP-67E Moonbat proposed fighter/recon plane with mixed piston and turbojet power (piston engines were intended to be Rolls-Royce Merlin RM 14SM, Packard V-1650-9 or -11, or two stage Allison V-1710s). And there was references to a document that in 1941 and again later that Lockheed was looking at a Merlin powered P-38.
Does anyone have any details of other projects that I didn't mention, or more details on those that I did aside from the well known P-51s, F-82s and P-40s?
