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Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #600 on: July 24, 2014, 05:56:59 AM »
Love the FN-2  >:D   Hope we see some exports and later developments!  :)
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Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #601 on: July 24, 2014, 03:21:58 PM »
Love the FN-2  >:D   Hope we see some exports and later developments!  :)

Thank you! Yes there will be more to come...

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« Reply #602 on: July 27, 2014, 06:48:23 PM »
More to come, but first we take a sidestep. The Vought Company rebuilt the Northrop A-3 on their on account as the Vought V-141 and slightly changed it in the V-143. They joined the contest with the FN-fighter but lost it. There were problems with the engine and the possibility of spinning. But the plane had a good handling in ground-attack missions and so the Marines preferred the V-143 than the FN-1. So they asked Vought to make some changes to the machine. Vought sought help with the Naval aircraft factory, which just won the contest. NAF adjusted the fuselage and upgraded the engine, so the FNU-1 was born and was accepted by the Bureau of Aeronautics. Here are two examples from the Marines:




The FNU with the tailhook had a slightly longer cockpit for better carrier-landings.

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Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #603 on: July 28, 2014, 02:09:59 AM »
I like!
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Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #604 on: July 28, 2014, 03:01:03 PM »
Thank you!

In 1938 NAF-Seversky came with the FN-3 with an upgraded engine and a slightly smaller fuselage. It was good to handle England tested the FN-3 at Martlesham and ordered 40 fighters for their Navy. Also several FN-3's were delivered to the USN.




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« Reply #605 on: July 28, 2014, 07:13:26 PM »
Also the USAAC was interested in the FN-3. It appeared to be a solid ground-attack aircraft. So they tested at Wright Field and ordered 35 FN-3, they were renamed PGA-3 (Pursuit-ground-attack).
Here are two examples:




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Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #606 on: July 31, 2014, 11:52:32 PM »
Also the USAAC was interested in the FN-3. It appeared to be a solid ground-attack aircraft. So they tested at Wright Field and ordered 35 FN-3, they were renamed PGA-3 (Pursuit-ground-attack).
Here are two examples:




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Lauhof


Hello Lauhof,

Love your latest work here; is it possible some of these made their way down to Mexico?

Regards,

CPT Mike
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Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #607 on: August 01, 2014, 12:43:25 AM »
Thanks - maybe Mike! First I have to do some early birds from the USAAC with their silver fuselage and colourful scheme!

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Lauhof

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« Reply #608 on: August 01, 2014, 01:30:25 AM »
Thanks - maybe Mike! First I have to do some early birds from the USAAC with their silver fuselage and colourful scheme!

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Sorry about that earlier typo!  :o  Got in corrected.... :)

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Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #609 on: August 01, 2014, 09:33:04 AM »
Very interesting.  So, will the design evolve along P-35-->P-43-->P-47 lines or more along the lines of the very similar Reggiane fighters (though likely with the naval ones sticking with air-cooled engines)?

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« Reply #610 on: August 01, 2014, 11:58:51 PM »
Thanks - maybe Mike! First I have to do some early birds from the USAAC with their silver fuselage and colourful scheme!

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Lauhof

Maybe the USAAC had a few of these at Pearl Harbor on 12/7/41???  ;D

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« Reply #611 on: August 02, 2014, 08:04:08 PM »
Very interesting.  So, will the design evolve along P-35-->P-43-->P-47 lines or more along the lines of the very similar Reggiane fighters (though likely with the naval ones sticking with air-cooled engines)?

Thanks! About the evolving. I don't know yet. I have still some P-35 changes in mind and thought of the P-41 an 43 but also of the Reggiane. We'll see

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« Reply #612 on: August 02, 2014, 08:04:40 PM »
Thanks - maybe Mike! First I have to do some early birds from the USAAC with their silver fuselage and colourful scheme!

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Lauhof

Maybe the USAAC had a few of these at Pearl Harbor on 12/7/41???  ;D

I think so Mike!

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Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #613 on: August 07, 2014, 02:48:39 AM »
The PGA-3 were delivered to the USAAC in 1938. here are some silverfinish pre-war models:





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« Reply #614 on: August 09, 2014, 11:42:51 PM »
Several PGA-3's were bought by Sweden to protect their neutral state. here is one from 3erd Squadron F8 Flottilj:



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« Reply #615 on: August 09, 2014, 11:45:29 PM »
End of 1939 NAF-Seversky came with an Scout-edition of the FN-fighter It was also capable to use as a bomber-plane. Several were send to the Navy squadrons:




also came NAF-seversky with a floatversion the SFB-1B. It was used on board several cruisers and carriers as scoutplane and for reconnaissance-duties.



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Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #616 on: August 10, 2014, 01:21:38 AM »
Great colour work on the Swedish one, congratulations! And I love the shape of the floatplane derivative!

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Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #617 on: August 10, 2014, 04:00:52 AM »
Great colour work on the Swedish one, congratulations! And I love the shape of the floatplane derivative!

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Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #618 on: August 10, 2014, 05:43:11 AM »
Beautiful!  The floatplane/amphibious version (I see the retracted wheels) looks nicely evolved from known RL designs.

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Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #619 on: August 11, 2014, 11:21:25 AM »
Those NAF-Severskies are so adorable  ;D
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« Reply #620 on: August 11, 2014, 04:53:33 PM »
Thank you, Guys!

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« Reply #621 on: August 11, 2014, 04:56:39 PM »
Hello Lauhof,

Love your latest work here; is it possible some of these made their way down to Mexico?

Regards,

CPT Mike
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Hi Mike,

When Mexico declared war upon Germany and Japan, the US trained Mexican Pilots and send them with the PGA-3's to the Philippines for strafing and reconaissance actions. The PGA's were still flying at the end of the Fifties. here are some examples:





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Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #622 on: August 11, 2014, 11:56:52 PM »
Hello Lauhof,

Love your latest work here; is it possible some of these made their way down to Mexico?

Regards,

CPT Mike


Hi Mike,

When Mexico declared war upon Germany and Japan, the US trained Mexican Pilots and send them with the PGA-3's to the Philippines for strafing and reconaissance actions. The PGA's were still flying at the end of the Fifties. here are some examples:





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lauhof


Hello Lauhof,

Very nice set of FAM PGA-3's  8)  I especially like the last one; that one comes closest to what I was thinking  :)

Thanks,

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Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #623 on: August 15, 2014, 07:06:50 AM »
Very nice! Your SFN-1B floatfighter is still my fav, though  :)
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« Reply #624 on: November 14, 2014, 11:04:36 PM »
Thank you, Guys!

At the end of the Thirties the USN was experimenting together with their suppliers in which way their fighters would be develop. Some engineers stayed with their biplane concept and others were changing from biplane to monoplane. The only monoplane fighter at that time was the F2A Buffalo, but the Navy was not fond of the plane and their competitor , the XF4F-2 monoplane, was although faster but less maneuverable. So Grumman fell back to their F3F and made an monoplane version - the F3F-2M -, at the same time they changed the fuselage of the XF4F-1 with its biplane wing and came with a faster and maneuverable F4F-1.
Both planes were delivered to the USN. Here are the two examples:

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