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Description
| Manufacturer: | Fisher (GM) |
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| Base model: | P-75 | ||
| Designation: | P-75 | ||
| Version: | A | ||
| Nickname: | Eagle | ||
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | ||
| Designation Period: | 1925-1947 | ||
| Basic role: | Pursuit | ||
Specifications
| Not Yet Available |
Known serial numbers
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| United States Air Force Museum | Wright-Patterson | Ohio |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Doug Murray College Station,, TX | My Dad, C. C. Murray was transferred from GEIC/MIC in Arizona in 1942 by GM to Fisher Body/Cleveland, Ohio and built B-29s until the contract was filled in early 1944. He was foreman of the outer wing and inner engine nacelles fabrication, including the stainless steel cowlings. His shift was 12 hours/day, 6 days/week, like everyone's.
Then he was assigned to build the XP-75. He installed the engines and the engine instruments on, I was told, on all eleven of the prototypes, all hand-built. I saw the smoke from two crashes of the test planes: one northest of East Litchfield, near Akron, and one just a block southwest of Rocky River Park on a corner of Euclid Blvd., about a mile from our house. We heard one plane crashed in Lake Erie and that one or two crashed upon landing at the plant because of landing gear problems. We heard of no fatalities, but such information would have been classified, in any case. When the XP-75 was closed down, we were transferred in December,1944, to California, where my dad opened up a new office in San Bernardino, eventually hiring 16 employees for GMAC/MIC. I graduated from SBHS in 1951 and attended both the 50th & 55th class of '51 Reunions, and am helping to plan another this autumn. I have learned more from this and other sites tonight than I ever knew as a boy. C. C. Murray has been gone from this vale of tears for 34 years now, and I miss him. His picture in front of his new office is here beside me tonight. Thank you, guys, all of you. 01/10/2008 @ 20:12 [ref: 19224] |
| Aaron Wilmington, NC | On September 1946,a P-75A Eagle crash landed near Englin field,Florida due to engine failure.The aircraft was on a test flight when the aircraft`s engine died,and the pilot made a belly landing in a sugar cane field.He was not injured and the aircraft suffered only minor damage. 06/01/2004 @ 21:32 [ref: 7523] |
| Bob Armstrong Columbus, OH | Although I have never seen a reference to it in print, I well remember an XP-75 sitting on the ramp at Area B. This one had a 75mm rifle out the nose. ala B-25s.
I do not know if it was ever fired during flight tests, but always wondered why it is never mentioned. Would have been quite an attack plane. I was a Staff Sergeant in electronics at the time. 07/13/2002 @ 22:26 [ref: 5305] |
| Robert Rensch Dayton, OH | "All dressed up and nowhere to go..." If WWII had gone very wrong for the Allies, and Jet engines hadn't been so obviously the coming thing, you might have seen more of these (and Martin Baker 5's to boot?).
As they say in the entertainment world..."If you enjoyed this aircraft, you're sure to like the P-58 Chain Lightning project". 01/15/2002 @ 17:36 [ref: 4096] |
| Gareth Wood Manchester, AL | This plane would have been good as an attack plane with the USMC in the pacific, and a good anti-kamikaze fighter. 12/28/2001 @ 15:33 [ref: 3921] |
| Ben McCallister Manchester, CA | This weird Frankenstein fighter had a good armament, but really should have been built with two V-1710, or British Napier Sabre liquid-cooled engines, or a 28 cylinder radial engine, as coupled engines hhad by that time shown themselves to be unreliable. 12/28/2001 @ 15:30 [ref: 3920] |
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