An absolute +1 from me! Could make for a good premium actually
yes funny fat turboprop is a go.
That thing looks like a fighter version of a Helldiver, basically…
Yep. SB2C and XP-62 shared similar fuselages, tail fins, and landing gear fairings, and both were designed by Curtiss, of course. ;)
Nope, as far as my research goes, no suspended armament was seriously considered or discussed for the aircraft. XP-62 was intentionally to serve as a dedicated interceptor for the Army. That’s it. There isn’t sufficient technical documentation available online to say otherwise. Indeed, that’s not the case for P-38 Lightning being the pure interceptor at first…
In reality, the XP-62 was planned to have four cannons as a final decision during the review in January 1942. The Army wanted to reduce the armament from 8 to 4 to cut off the excessive weight, from 15,568 lbs (7,070 kg) to 14,000 lbs (6,350 kg). It was reached that decision even before the construction of XP-62 was finished.
Where did you read turboprop?
Don’t turboprops usually have two props that are counter rotating in set much like the image?
Not always. In fact, turboprops can have a single 3-blade or 4-blade propeller to drive them like this aircraft, for example. However, this XP-62 was powered by a huge radial engine. Having contra-rotating propellers doesn’t necessitate the turboprop engine as long as the piston engine produces enough power.
Well that was my first thought when seeing it.
+1! I love my countries aircrafts!
Exactly look close there are two sets of props there facing opposite Directions
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Well that one has a radial engine.
Are turboprops not allowed to be radial also the engine being used is the upgrade engine for the B-29 so don’t know how they stuffed it to the curtiss. But it’s american so proably found a way
…Do you know what a turboprop is?
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yes
Wright Turbo-cyclone
That’s a JET ENGINE
That is NOT a jet engine
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Explain how a prop engine is a jet engine I feel you do not no the difference which is scary.
Also Truboprop is diffrent the Trubofan which is a jet engine.
This isn’t a turboprop but a radial engine with turbo-compound attachment. That doesn’t make it a turboprop. Both radial and turboprop are completely different designs and don’t share commons.
Wright Duplex Cyclone is fundamentally a radial engine due to having cylinders and moving pistons on the crankshaft that perform internal combustion. It has a turbo-compound attachment that simply recovers energy from the exhaust gases and feeds directly into the output shaft to increase the total power delivered by the engine.
On the other hand, the turboprop engine doesn’t have cylinders and moving pistons on the crankshaft. It’s replaced by a compressor that combusts the incoming air through the engine. It doesn’t recover the exhaust gases.
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