severskydoolittlespecial

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John Sanders said:
Designed when bigger meant better.
bryanewyatt said:
John Sanders It does look larger than it really was, doesn't it?
John Sanders said:
It was pointing the way to the P-47!
Ken Shanaberger said:
Now THERE'S an aircraft you don't see too often!
mambo1935 said:
grace!

John Sanders said:
Great plane!
Son of Sandor said:
Jimmy Doolittle's one-off civilian version of the P-35.

Another civil aircraft was the DS, (or Doolittle Special), a single seater for James Doolittle, employed at the time by the Shell Oil Company, while the AP-7 was another racer, powered by a 1,200 hp (895 kW) R-1830 engine and used by Jacqueline Cochran to win the 1938 Bendix Trophy race and to set a women's air speed record. Seversky entered two aircraft based on the P-35 in a 1938 competition for a new fighter for the Air Corps. One was the XP-41 (which had the company designation AP-4D, which was a P-35 with a 1,200 hp (895 kW) R-1830-9 engine fitted with a two-stage supercharger and the AP-4, which had a turbo-supercharger mounted in the belly of a deeper fuselage. The Air Corps preferred the AP-4D, which was ordered into production as the P-43 Lancer.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seversky_P-35
mambo1935 said:
grace!