FightersPrototype fighter aircraft
Consolidated Vultee XP-81
The Consolidated Vultee XP-81 (later redesignated ZXF-81) is a development of the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation to build a single seat, long range escort fighter that combined use of both turbojet and turboprop engines. Although promising, the lack of suitable engines combined with the end of World War II doomed the project.
Summary from Wikipedia, photo via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA.
- Manufacturer
- Convair
- Category
- Fighters
- First flight
- 1945-02-11
Specifications
- Cruise speed
- 239 kt
- Max speed
- 415 kt
- Range
- 2,200 nm
- Service ceiling
- 47,000 ft
- Rate of climb
- 5,300 ft/min
- Max takeoff weight
- 24,650 lb
- Empty weight
- 12,979 lb
- Powerplant
- General Electric T31-GE-3 turboprop engine and General Electric J33-GE-5 turbojet
- Engines
- 2
- Seats
- 1
- Length
- 44.7 ft
- Wingspan
- 50.5 ft
- Height
- 13.5 ft
- Number built
- 2
Specifications are approximate and may vary by variant. Compiled from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
Reference and training only. Specifications vary by variant — consult the manufacturer and the official documents.