Subject: Number Sixty-Eight in the Series--Vultee XP-68 Tornado

From: [email-masked]
Date: 14 May 93 16:22:38 GMT

>From [email-masked]

The Vultee XP-68 Tornado was a proposed version of the XP-54 
experimental pusher fighter.  The XP-68 was to be powered by the 
42-cylinder Wright R-2160 Tornado radial engine driving a set of 
contrarotating propellers.  In July of 1941, the USAAF assigned the 
designation XP-68 to the project.  In the event, the Wright Tornado 
engine project was abandoned before anything could be built, and the 
XP-68 project never got off the drawing board.  The XP-68 was 
officially cancelled on November 22, 1941.  

Sources: 

  The American Fighter, Enzo Angelucci and Peter Bowers, Orion, 1987.  

  American Combat Planes, Ray Wagner, 3rd Edition, Doubleday, 1982.  

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