Thanks folks!
It is a love child between a Sea Fury and a regular Thunderbolt. Hmmm ......
TBG: It took me a couple of steps to arrive at the same conclusion. At first, I was puzzled as to why it looked like an anemic
Tempest Mk.II. My second thought was that it needed the full
Fury treatment.
So, a new, shorter fuselage was devised which repositions the cockpit and eliminates the wing centre-section. Instead of bolting to the fuselage side, the wing panels now join on the centreline.
The inboard machine guns are removed (they wouldn't clear the prop anymore), reducing fixed armament to six .50-cals. Obviously, the centreline rack is also eliminated. The upsides would be in the weight loss - the GE turbo-supercharger and its ducting is dumped, plus the fuselage structure is reduced. As well as being lighter, the resulting '
Mini-Bolt' would also be more manoeuvrable at low altitude.
(BTW: I forgot to mention that I based my original turboless
Tbolt on a mélange of Gaetan Marie's P-47B and P-47C profiles.