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The Seversky XP-41 was a fighter aircraft built in the United States in
The Seversky XP-41 was a fighter aircraft built in the United States in 1939
This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history.
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. A single prototype was modified from the last production Seversky P-35
The Seversky P-35 is an American fighter aircraft built by the Seversky Aircraft Company in the late 1930s. A contemporary of the Hawker Hurricane and Messerschmitt Bf 109, the P-35 was the first single-seat fighter in United States Army Air Cor ...
by adding a new streamlined canopy
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, a Pratt & Whitney R-1830
The Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp is an American air-cooled radial aircraft engine. It displaces and its bore and stroke are both . The design traces its history to 1929 experiments at Pratt & Whitney on twin-row designs. Production bega ...
-19 engine with a two-speed supercharger
In an internal combustion engine, a supercharger compresses the intake gas, forcing more air into the engine in order to produce more power for a given displacement.
The current categorisation is that a supercharger is a form of forced indu ...
, and revised landing gear. The XP-41 first flew in March 1939. The aircraft was developed in parallel with the P-43 Lancer, and work was stopped when the USAAC
The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was the aerial warfare service component of the United States Army between 1926 and 1941. After World War I, as early aviation became an increasingly important part of modern warfare, a philosophical ri ...
showed a preference for the latter.
Specifications (XP-41)
See also
References
Bibliography
* Green, William and Gordon Swanborough. "The End of the Beginning...The Seversky P-35". ''Air Enthusiast'', No. 10, July–September 1979, pp. 8–21. {{USAF fighters Low-wing aircraft P-041 Single-engined tractor aircraft Seversky P-41 Aircraft first flown in 1939