XP-67, P-67, F-67 Moonbat

[GTX]

I can't believe there isn't already a dedicated thread, so here goes.

To start with, I've always thought the XP-67 lent itself to a jet conversion.  Here a couple of quick ideas:

Initial version:



Updated version with the benefit of swept wings:



More to follow/

Regards,

Greg

[Jschmus]

With swept wings, it looks like an over-sized -262.  With turboprops, it might've made a good COIN machine for Vietnam.

[jorel62]

I know I put these on my thread. But, what-the-hey I'll show them here too. Here are a couple Moonbat profiles I did.

[Jeffry Fontaine]

Stick with propellers on it.  IT just looks better. 

Maybe convert to turbine engines or give it contra-rotating propellers. 

Better yet, a pair of propellers with as many blades as you can manage under that spinner.  Un-ducted Fans Baby! Or what ever they are using now for describing that concept.

[tigercat2]

As a big fan of the Moonbat, I agree with all the above!! 



Wes W.

[raafif]

Hi guys,
    love the MoonBat -- that red profile would make a great post-war Bendix Trophy racer !!

[tigercat2]

In the old What if site, there was a section on stories revolving around What If aircraft.  I tried to access it the other day, because there was an excellent story about a P-67B nightfigher in Europe in WWII.  Is this old site gone forever?


Wes W.

[Wyrmshadow]

I think that burried engines like this and swept wings would make it look better..

[Cobra]

Very Cool has a 'Crimson Skies' Feel to it!!!!!!!! Can't wait to see More from You!!!!!

[jcf]

XP-67 predecessor from a thread on Secretprojects:
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,5992.0.html

Buried engines and pusher props.

Images from Mark Nankivil and Justo Miranda.

Jon

[raafif]

that looks rather like the 3-seat Messerschmitt Me-329 -- used Me-410 wing shape reversed -- sadly only a wooden mockup was built.

[Stargazer]

Hello everyone!

I am not exactly your average kind of model maker... True, I DO have tens of aircraft plastic models, including some rare ones, but they are still lying in a cupboard somewhere, for lack of space. All the built kits I took with me a few years ago from my previous address got damaged in the move... and it kind of pissed me off, so I don't know when I'll built my other models (hopefully we'll find a bigger house in a couple of years' time and I will have enough space to have my own workshop... (first on my "to do" list will be my Convair XF-92, Curtiss XP-55, Grumman XP-50 and Curtiss SC-1...)

Anyway, for the time being, I am a VIRTUAL model maker... I indulge in something I love just about as much as plastic: creating imaginary models or variants on my computer... I have no knowledge in 3D rendering, CG or whatever... so I do it the old fashioned way: in a graphics software using layers, filters, effects and my imagination.

Instead of a long presentation, I thought I ought be doing a special version of an aircraft I've loved all my life (got hooked on aircraft as a kid through my dad, an aviation buff who assembled several hundred plastic models). So here it is, my own Navy version of the McDonnell XP-67 Moonbat, which I chose to designate the XF2M-1 Manta... Why so? Well, as we know the later Phantom became FD (then FH), I thought that maybe the Navy could have considered at some point the use of the letter "M" for McDonnell, and reallocate the unused General Motors F2M designator, initially planned for a version of the Wildcat... As Bat or Moonbat was the USAAF version, Manta (which was the name of the Davis prototype that inspired the XP-67) seemed perfect for a naval version... and voilà!

An old would-be magazine clipping...



... and the "original" photograph...



Hope you like them!

[Stargazer]

There has been no comment on my McDonnell Manta... Perhaps some of you might enjoy the colored version more? So here goes:

McDONNELL XF2M-1 MANTA



(Sorry about the propellers... they got sort of lost in translation... LOL...)

[Cobra]

Very Cool Manta why do i picture Deck crews getting her Ready and the 'Battle Stations' tone sounding as Crews Scramble to mount up??? Great Job, you may want to make it a Turbo Prop before going to Jets!!!!!!! stay cool!!!!!!!!

[sideshowbob9]

Sorry about the propellers... they got sort of lost in translation... LOL...

*Wants to make a pun...... thinks better of it.......*

Love your Manta btw