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Description
| Manufacturer: | Fisher (GM) |
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| Base model: | P-75 | ||
| Designation: | XP-75 | ||
| Nickname: | Eagle | ||
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | ||
| Designation Period: | 1925-1947 | ||
| Basic role: | Pursuit | ||
| Status: | Experimental | ||
Specifications
| Not Yet Available |
Known serial numbers
Recent comments by our visitors
| Aaron Wilmington, NC | On september 1941,a Fisher XP-75 Caught fire during a test flight near Muroc Dry lake,California and crashed in a field where it exploded,killing the pilot. 06/17/2004 @ 16:47 |
| Tom tom@snapshotdesign.com Macomb, MI | I just posted several images of XP-75's. My father worked on this project as a project manager.
I have several 8x10 images of this aircraft during prototype production. I have posted the more interesting ones here on aeroweb. If you have any questions, please e-mail me at: tom@snapshotdesign.com. 06/04/2004 @ 11:33 |
| vlado ogrizekv@siol.net slovenija, AL | beautiful plane bat cant finet plan or detail picture to bild him because am flaing rc combat,if somebode can help me ail be greateful to him.thank you.
03/10/2002 @ 14:31 |
| Robert Rensch rrensch1@woh.rr.com Dayton, OH | The P-75 project has gotten a lot of criticism from latter day aero-historians. Some of it is deserved, some results from incorrect perspective.
In the 1930's America's military suffered from a lack of vision and funds. The events in Europe were viewed with alarm in some quarters, and the reality of our unpreparedness dawned enough on military planners that some special projects were furtively funded in spite of a general lack of cash or approval. The Boeing 299 and the Bell XFM Airacuda were among the tangible results of this process. Some individuals saw that, if a hostile nation made a true invasion attempt, we were not in a position to do much about it. The response to watching Germany's aircraft technology advance was to push our aircraft requirements to the limits of our ability and beyond. One of the requirements put forth was for heavily armed pursuits, or bomber destroyers. The P-75 (numbered thus as a nod to the Lafayette Escadrille) was General Motors' effort to fill that requirement. The engine, the V-3420 "Twin Allison" was, on paper anyway, the hottest thing going for sheer power. It never quite lived up to it's promise, but nonetheless was a whopper of an engine. Immediately after Pearl Harbor, priority for "anti-invasion" equipment jumped. Several notable aircraft projects got a shot in the arm. Most were defensive in nature. The P-75 project was one of them. The P-75 suffered from being based on immature technology. The Fisher Division attempted to hasten the development of the engine by making up a few "Test Mules" These were the slap-dash "bitsa" aircraft. Other than trying to garner a higher priority for funding, no real proposal to continue into production with this version was entertained. The "expedient" nature of the test planes was underscored when a crash resulted from inadequate stress development work combined with the prodigious torque of the engine. One of the mules was literally torn in half in flight by the sudden application of full power. As the war progressed, it became obvious that our immediate needs would be of an offensive, rather than defensive nature. The P-75 was continued only as far as the engine still fascinated. The project essentially died with the threat of invasion. In order to string the project along, changing government contracts and requirements were issued, but never again with the idea that this plane would be produced in quantity. 01/15/2002 @ 17:11 |
| Tom Currie , TN | Performance stats: Not good. This was how General Motors dodged the responsibility of building Superfortresses-by building a fighter prototype that would make it look like they were too busy to handle another production order. It was supposed to be a long-range escort fighter (this was when Mustangs were low-altitude recon fighters-some were named A-36 and made into dive-bombers!). It had a "double engine" behind the cockpit, and I heard that it carried 12(!) .50 cal guns. The wings, tail, and most other components were actually just copied from other American planes, including P40s and the Dauntless. Bottom line: Heavy, ugly, clumsy airplane, built by guys who were better off making engines. 10/03/2000 @ 21:30 |
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