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XF8B-1

Model number: 400
First flight: Nov. 27, 1944
Type: Single-seat Shipboard Long-range Interceptor and Fighter-bomber.
Span: 54 ft. 0 in.
wing area 489 sq.ft.
Length: 43 feet 3 inches
height, 16 ft. 3 in.
Gross weight: 20,508 pounds
Weights: Empty, 13,519 lb.
Weights: loaded, 20,691 lb.
Maximum speed 340 m.p.h. at sea level
Top speed: 432 mph at 26,900 ft.
Cruising speed: 190 mph
initial climb rate, 2,800 ft./min.
normal range 1,305 mls.
maximum range, 2,280 mls.
Range: 3,500 miles
Ceiling: 37,500 feet
Power:
  • Boeing = One 2,500-horsepower P&W Wasp Major engine
  • WILLIAM GREEN = One 3,000 h.p. Pratt and Whitney XR-4360-10 twenty-eight cylinder radial air-cooled engine
  • Zichek = 3,500 hp. Pratt & Whitney R-4360 "Wasp Major" 28-cylinder air-cooled radial engine
    • Accommodation: 1 crew
    Armament: Six .50-caliber machine guns or 20-mm cannons,
    3,200-pound bomb load [= Boeing]
    [6,400-lb. bomb load = WILLIAM GREEN]



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