Questions, technical and factual in nature, but needed for some whiffing.

[kitnut617]

The book 'Mosquito' by C.Martin Sharp & Michael J.F.Bowyer has a whole chapter on this variant, it also goes into other high altitude variants and even describes some encounters with Me.262's.  A very good read and highly recommended if you're into Mosquitos

[jcf]

The idea has two parts:   Consolidated Vultee/Convair gets an order for development of a very high flying Mosquito, which they do and do a very good job of it.  So good, that they get the order later for the WB-57F.    Like the WB, the Mosquito is 95% new build and leaves behind the wooden construction in favor of a metal one.   One thought was to put wings on it that were 50 years ahead of their time, thus the winglets questions, and the other, of course, regarded prop feasibility.

The second part regards the Canberra,  but in addition to using the B-57 as a base, Convair developed a variant of the PR.9.  (Thanks Airfix!)

Thanks to everyone above for the info; it's much more than anticipated and is quite helpful.

Daryl J.

The Convair - Vultee merger was finalized in March of 1943, if that helps with your timeline.
Being as you have Consvair as your manufacturer, why not use a development of the high-aspect
ratio Davis wing as used on the Model 31 and B-24?

The first production aircraft to use winglets was the Lear 28 of 1977, Rutan's Vari-Eze of 1975 the first aircraft,
however the concept is older. Whitcomb and his NASA colleagues began wind tunnel tests of their designs in 1974.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingtip_device

http://oea.larc.nasa.gov/PAIS/Concept2Reality/winglets.html

Jon

[Daryl J.]

Jon,

A modified Davis was *exactly* what I had in mind outboard the Merlins going for the long, thin wing look.   And yes the timeline for Consolidated--->Convair was the next question so thanks again for the answers.


Daryl J.


PS:  Thanks for all the answers....it was far more than expected.    to you!