McDonnell XP-67 "Moonbat"-1945

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Very cool & RARE promo for the XP-67 "Bat", or "Moonbat".

Like so many of these aircraft that "Pushed the boudaries" in the late 1940s & 1950s, the aircraft suffered from being underpowered, and never made it past the prototype stage.

My best guess is that she was a ball to fly above 250 mph at altitude, but was quite skidish at lower speeds, with difficult recovery time, and bad stall characteristics due to the low aspect ratio wing, and underpowered engines.

Surely the airplane would have been a real "Bomb" given powerful enough engines. As it was, I don't think she could outpace a P-51 Mustang.

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[peepeevagi]

You know, i was humming to myself "War, huuh... what iiis it good for" and then i clicked on this.

The moonbat. Whaaat iiis it good for? Absolutely NO-THING raaawhhawhhaawh!!! xD

[mcdonnell220]

@peepeevagi You be quotin' the Edwin Starr classic from 1969..."War"!! Great tune.

[mikeryry]

that plane looked like a mix of a catalina and a canberra!!..wierd

[rpurdey]

450mph estimated? Turned out to be just over 400mph. The laminar flow concept proved rather impractical on WW2 combat aircraft and didn't give the speed it was hoped to, even on the Mustang. The XI-1430 wasn't as reliable as it needed to be, either.

[billy9038]

Anyone know if it's in a museum now?

[CygnusatratusZ]

It was not actually used, but it's features spawed some very good planes... Take care, God bless...

[isukaman]

@SearTrip BUT, they can't soft-land a spacecraft on Mars.

[SearTrip]

@isukaman Look up the 14.5x114mm round. Still being used today. And of course the Russians also had their own .50 cal., but with a larger case than the .50 BMG.

[isukaman]

@SearTrip I didn't know that. The Russians always seem to do us a couple of mm more. I wonder what their version of the T17E3 was.

[SearTrip]

@isukaman Just what it says, a .60 cal. machine gun. The designation for the aircraft machine gun was T17E3. It was developed during WWII & tested through the early 50s. 20mm cannon turned out to be better for a/c use, and the .50 was better on the ground, so the .60 was dropped.

[isukaman]

Eight 60 cal, machine guns?  What's a 60 cal. machine gun?

[choefrogg]

The first stealth plane ever built !!