Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:18:12 +0200 
From: "Stéphane Beaumort"  
To: flatlander607
Subject: Uncommon Aircraft: Twin-engined P-40C 
    
Dear Robert,

First of all thanks for your informative and quite helpful site.

I've read your request about the twin-engined P-40C mystery, and this 
is
what Peter M. Bowers had to say about it in his Putnam book "Curtiss
Aircraft 1907-1947":

"Twin-engined P-40—In 1942, P-40C 41-13456 was modified to become the
mock-up of an undesignated twin-engined fighter. Packard-Merlin engines
and nose cowling from P-40Fs or Kittyhawk IIs were adapted to nacelles
fitted to the top of the P-40C wing. No further information is 
available."

The same photo that appears on your web page is also provided by Bowers
(© "National Air and Space Museum"), along with the above item.

Unless this was a private venture from Curtiss, the design pretty much
corresponds to that of the Grumman XP-50 Tomcat, which makes me wonder
if it may have been a contender for CP 39-775.


Yours sincerely,

Stephane BEAUMORT (Mr.)
France