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[.50calBMG]

While reading about the F9F Panther, I saw that it had been designed originally to use 4 Westinghouse 19-B-2B (Navy J30) axial-flow jet engines buried in wings that spanned 55.7ft. That would be hard to land on a carrier! So I thought that it was interesting and here's the request.
Couldn't find any pics though because when they had started building it, the good ol' Brits sent over a few Rolls Royce Nenes and Grumman built the rest of the plane around the new engine. My guess is that the F9F-1 would have looked like an F2H Banshee with a higher elevator (like the F9F-2 has now), with an extra engine in each wing root. The FM could just be tweaked from the Panther, a bit slower, less loadouts, heavier, and less reliable.

Here's the picture:http://www.aviastar.org/pictures/usa/mcdonnel_banshee.gif

[mojojojo]

this isnt really up to the standards of the request guidlines. try to make it a little less vague

[.50calBMG]

Sorry, there is very little info about this plane. I guess that the gun armament would have bee the same, but again, I found no pictures. As I said earlier, it probably would have inferior performance to the F9F-2. The performance may have been the same as the 262A-1/a, if not slightly faster and a bit more maneuverable.

[coenoo1]

It's like an anorexic panther   ???

[SAS~Malone]

very little info for it....yeah, that makes sense, as it was only a prototype.
we've had discussions about this sort of weird, one-off type planes before, and the general conclusion is that no modder is likely to spend time on it.
if someone does, good for you, but i wouldn't hold my breath.
generally, there's a good reason why there is little or no info available, because it's a plane which only did maybe one or two test flights, and was binned.
take it as a general rule for future requests - if there is little to no info on a specific plane, especially good 3d plans/ pictures, don't even bother formally requesting it.

[HundertzehnGustav]

and, as we carry these planes into combat, prototypes , i would not want to fly them at all.
they are test aircraft, and their systems often break when i most need them...

Who was that American Pilot that said:

never fly the "XF", "YF" or"A" model of anything!

[.50calBMG]

Bet the 163 was fun at first then!
 

[duffys tavern]

Seems to me that someone was working on an F2H a few years ago and then dropped it over at the old AAA. Looked a lot like this.

[HundertzehnGustav]

the 163 was no fun at all, yea! more like, a dangerous flying Bomb with a pair of guns....
Yikes

[mojojojo]

one 163 pilot got sprayed by the fuel (which was corrosive) after being shot in the fuel tank, and he literally disolved to death.

[mojojojo]

we already have enough panther variants in the works. it would be nice to see an FH-1.