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From US Navy/US Air Force Standard Aircraft Characteristics/ACPs printed by the GPO.

First up.

YB-35B Flying Wing:

YB-49 Flying Wing

YRB-49A Flying Wing

B-36B Peacemaker. Bomb Tokyo from Midway or therabouts! [:D]

XC-99 Transport. What you get when you turn a B-36B into a transport. [:D]

And I know this is a sort of break; but the XC-99 is just awesome enough to show this:

F5U Flapjack (or Pancake)

F8B-1 FIVE IN ONE

Cool, A bearcat with an improved engine?

Does anyone have any information on the F8B-1?

Link to a reprint of an old Michael Green book online
 





By 1943, the U.S. Navy was preoccupied with a requirement for long-range shipboard aircraft suitable for operation against the Japanese home islands from carriers cruising in the Pacific outside the normal range of Japanese land-based aircraft. The Boeing company designed a large, multi-purpose fighter suitable for such operations and which on May 4, 1943, was awarded a prototype development contract for the XF8B-1.
 


The XF8B-1 was the largest and heaviest single-seat, single-piston-engined fighter developed in the U.S.A., and the twenty-eight-cylinder four-row Pratt and Whitney XR-4360-10 engine was mounted on a power egg and drove two Aeroprop three-blade contra-rotating airscrews. The XF8B-1 was intended to fulfil the roles of interceptor, long-range escort fighter, dive-bomber, torpedo-bomber and horizontal bomber.