Secret Aerospace Projects of the U.S. Navy +

[Jukka Juutinen]

The R-4360-10 had a potential (=would have been adopted had it gone to service use) for water injected 3500 hp emergency power so the blurb has it correct. The book does have that flight manual reproduced as well.

Big and heavy indeed, but according to the pilot reports in the book remarkably agile. Remember, in the fighter set up its weight is about the same as that of the P-38L, yet the former´s wing area is some 50% greater giving it by far the lowest wing loading of any high performance fighter of its period (excepting perhaps some Jap. designs for which I don´t remember the data by heart).