Talk:Convair XF-92

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Contents 1 First flight... 2 The Convair XF-92 Page 3 Yeager's First Flight in XF-92 4 XP-92

[edit] First flight...

The article originally stated that the first flight was on 1 apr 48. However, Baugher states that the first hop was made later in the year. Obviously one of these sources is wrong, but which? Maury 13:16, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Convair XF-92 Page

This page seems to be cut. Can you please fix it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.167.146.173 (talk) 23:04, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Yeager's First Flight in XF-92

The "Operational History" portion of the article states that Yeager rolled the airplane upon landing. This is not true. The reference that was used for this statement was misinterpreted--actually Yeager rolled the airplane in flight, which was something Convair's test pilot would not do because the airplane was difficult to control (in his opinion). The incident in which the airplane was damaged on landing was during its last flight for the NACA, piloted by Scott Crossfield. The airplane had a landing gear failure which caused it to come to rest in the "comical" pose. The easiest-to-get-to reference for that incident is NASA Dryden's XF-92 online photo gallery. J79Thrust (talk) 05:02, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] XP-92

The change over to "F" designations didn't happen until mid '48. The original a/c was XP-92 and was the last "P" designation given to a fighter. There is a very good article on this a/c in one of the very early Air Enthusiast Quarterly magazine (no, I don't remember which one---my library was destroyed a few years ago) with a photo of the mock-up.--Phyllis1753 (talk) 16:35, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Steve Pace's X-Fighters: USAF Experimental and Prototype Fighters XP-59 to YF-23 on p. 89 has two photos of the XP-92 mock-up which is weird-looking to say the least. The barrel-shaped fuselage had the cockpit buried into it with an intake surrounding the cockpit. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 23:07, 22 April 2008 (UTC).

Yes, that's the one. Good thing we didn't try to make the thing fly using coal for fuel as the Germans wanted to do. Met Lippisch once when I was in Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa where he lived out his last years. Eccentric character!--Phyllis1753 (talk) 00:18, 23 April 2008 (UTC)