ubaTaeCJ, e-mail, 21.02.2025 16:43 20

GrahamClayton, e-mail, 29.12.2024 08:08 The planned armament consisted of 2 Hispano HS404 20mm guns and 2 7.5mm MAC M39 machine guns.

Michael Allen, e-mail, 05.08.2016 09:03 It is a very interesting aircraft. But lightweight concept was a good idea. The ultimate aircraft of this cocept has to be the de Havilland Mosquito which made use of balsa wood and furniture manufacturers. It's light weight meant it was very fast and could outrun Luftwaffe fighters. The only Allied aircraft that the Germans tried to directly copy. They failed because of problems with adhesive technology.

Pablo Alvarez, e-mail, 09.01.2015 21:22 Consider that not even the Italian aircraft whose average power was 840hp were able to reach 500 km/h. This says a lot about a design that has only 700hp.

toja, 28.11.2013 17:22 Yak-3 wasn't "lightweight fighter", it had early Spitfire's mass and was much heavier than Bf-109d, only 10% lighter than bf-109g.

Klaatu83, e-mail, 02.01.2012 16:41 Before WW-II, the French really seem to have gone in for the development of the "lightweight fighter" concept more than other countries did. Unfortunately, none of them ever amounted to much. Another examples of this concept was the Bell P-77, developed for the U.S. Army Air Force during the war, with also was a failure. Perhaps the only really successful "lightweight fighter" of the period was the Soviet Union's Yak-3 which, ironically, ended up being flown by ex-patriot French pilots!