Fisher XP-75 Eagle

[Subdeacon Joe]

Interesting aircraft.
 

Fisher XP-75 Eagle:
http://www.aviation-history.com/fisher/p75.html
Only 12 built.
"As was remarked about the vintage Curtis JN-4 Jenny, the P-75 could have been classified as "a group of parts flying in formation." It was made up from sub-assemblies of other airplanes that were already in production. It used the tail of the Douglas SBD Dauntless, the wings of Curtiss P-40 Warhawk and the landing gear of the Vought F4U Corsair.

This methodology was chosen to reduce production times and costs, but unfortunately this "Rube Goldberg" approach of assembling parts from several different aircraft and getting a car parts maker to build it, didn't work out so well. What may have seemed like a good idea at the time, with good intentions to save time and money, only gave more credence to Murphy’s Law, “Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.” The main problem was that each of these parts was designed to function as an integral unit to a specific airframe. Combing parts of different aircraft proved to be ludicrous.3"

Fisher XP-75 Eagle:

Dimensions:Wing span:49 ft 4 in (15.04 m)

Length:40 ft 5 in (12.32 m)

Height:15 ft 6 in (4.72 m)

Weights:Empty:11,495 lb (5,214 kg)

Operational Weight:19,420 lb (8,808 kg)

Performance:

Maximum Speed:433 mph (697 km/h) at 20,000 ft (6,100 m)

Rate of Climb:4,200 ft/min (21.3 m/sec)

Service Ceiling:36,400 ft (11,100 m)

Range:2,050 mi (3,300 km)

Powerplant:One 2,885 hp (2,150 kW) Allison W-3420-23 24-cylinder engine.

Armament:

Four fuselage 0.50 caliber machine guns and
Six wing mounted 0.50 caliber machine guns.
Two 500 lb (227 kg) bombs.