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Which MWiF fighter used an engine designed for a bomber and why?

If memory serves it was the P-47 Thunderbolt. I don't know why though.

ORIGINAL: buckyzoom
If memory serves it was the P-47 Thunderbolt. I don't know why though.

The Thundrebolt was unique in its own way but not for that reason.
HINT: It wasn't a US fighter

Ugh. Sorting through the dregs that is my memory.

Wasn't it the Focke-Wulf FW-190? It used a Junkers engine because radial engines, at that time in Germany, were more plentiful than the in-line engines most fighter designers preferred.

That's my SWAG.

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The P-47 was used the R-2800 Double Wasp engine which was also the engines used for the B-26.

ORIGINAL: Barticus
Ugh. Sorting through the dregs that is my memory.
Wasn't it the Focke-Wulf FW-190? It used a Junkers engine because radial engines, at that time in Germany, were more plentiful than the in-line engines most fighter designers preferred.

Nope. Hmmm looks like we might have a question capable of going more than a couple of rounds [:)]

This was a new fighter aircraft built around a 1,200hp engine which until then was being used in the manufacture of bombers.
HINT: Not Japanese

It has to be the German Me 109, whose engine also equipped the He 111.

If you go this way, it could be Hurricanes, Spitfires & P-51s all equipped with a Rolls Royce Merlin like the one equipping the Avro Lancasters British heavy bombers.
The 109 in their most successful versions were equipped with a Daimler Benz (DB600 to DB605), which was reserved to the one o nine production iirc. Only the first B, C & D version had a Junkers Jumo that you can also find on a bomber. But those early Jumos didnt' achieve 1200 hp iirc.
Might be some kind of Pratt & Whitney equipped US beasty.
But there are an awfull lot, from the barrel fighters of Grumman (the 'cats') & Republic (P-35s & P-47s) to the Corsairs, Buffaloes & all. It s not the Corsairs they are too powerfull, and I doubt it is the 'cats'.
I really do not have a clue to which plane Greyhaft is thinking about.

Without any research or proper thought, I'll say the CAC Boomerang because a bomber engine was all that was available when it was hurriedly designed (by my mate's great grandfather BTW).

I'm most probably wrong but one never knows, and these electrons didn't cost me anything to recycle.

Cheers, Neilster

One for Neilster...

After the start of the Pacific War it took Australia's Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation only four months of design and construction work to fly the prototype of the CA-12 Boomerang. The 1200 hp engines already being made under license in Australia for locally produced Bristol Beaufort bombers were mated with the frames of the existing CAC Wirraway trainer to create the first fighter to be designed and built in Australia. Although maneauverable and well armored and with good firepower consisting of two 20mm cannon and four 7.9mm machine guns, the inadequate maximum speed of 490 km/h and poor high altitude performance meant that the Boomerang found its niche in ground support rather than dogfighting.

ORIGINAL: buckyzoom

The P-47 was used the R-2800 Double Wasp engine which was also the engines used for the B-26.

Built by Pratt & Whitney in Hartford, CT USA.

here is a boomerang