Consolidated Vultee XP-81
Consolidated Vultee XP-81 adalah pengembangan dari Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation untuk membangun sebuah pesawat tempur kursi tunggal, pendamping jarak jauh yang menggunakan gabungan dari kedua turbojet dan mesin turboprop.
Meskipun menjanjikan, kurangnya mesin cocok dipadukan dengan akhir Perang Dunia II.
Referensi
sunting- Ginter, Steve. Consolidated Vultee XP-81 (Air Force Legends Number 214). Simi Valley, California: Ginter Books, 2007. ISBN 0-942612-87-6.
- Green, William. War Planes of the Second World War, Volume Four: Fighters. London: Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.,1961. ISBN 0-356-01448-7.
- Green, William and Gordon Swanborough. WW2 Aircraft Fact Files: US Army Air Force Fighters, Part 2. London: Macdonald and Jane's Publishers Ltd., 1978. ISBN 0-354-01072-7.
- Jenkins, Dennis R. and Tony R. Landis. Experimental & Prototype U.S. Air Force Jet Fighters. North Branch, Minnesota, USA: Specialty Press, 2008. ISBN 978-1-58007-111-6.
- Knaack, Marcelle Size. Encyclopedia of US Air Force Aircraft and Missile Systems: Volume 1 Post-World War II Fighters 1945-1973. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1978. ISBN 0-912799-59-5.
- Winchester, Jim. The World's Worst Aircraft: From Pioneering Failures to Multimillion Dollar Disasters. London: Amber Books Ltd., 2005. ISBN 1-904687-34-2.
Pranala luar
suntingWikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Convair XF-81.
- Convair XF-81 on National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
- Propjet and Plain a 1946 Flight article on the XP-81