Mar 022011
Ah, the days when art was done with pens, pencils and paintbrush. The accuracy was sometimes dodgy, the details could be muddled, distorted or just plain wrong, but you always got a sense of character from the art. Modern computer renderings certainly do a job of imparting the image, but they’re just missing… something.
Here, then, is a color rendering from McDonnell showing the XP-67 Moonbat opening up a can of 37mm whoopass on some doomed Axis fool. The XP-67 was an innovative and interesting design that was let down by its engines, and arrived far too late to hope to see service in WWII.
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I always wondered what the recoil from all those cannons firing at once was going to do the the airframe… maybe it’s diving to try and prevent the recoil from stopping it in midair.
What happened to the P-61 when it fired all four 20mm belly guns? Come to think of it, six 37mm guns are probably 150% (at least ) of four 20mm guns.