The General Motors/Fisher P-75 Eagle was a fighter aircraft designed by the Fisher Body Division of General Motors Corporation. Development started in September 1942 in response to United States Army Air Forces requirement for a fighter possessing an extremely high rate of climb, using the most powerful liquid-cooled engine then available, the Allison V-3420. The program was cancelled after only a small number of prototypes and production aircraft had been completed, as it was no longer required in its original role, could not be quickly deployed, and possessed no significant advantages over aircraft already in production.
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| - The General Motors/Fisher P-75 Eagle was a fighter aircraft designed by the Fisher Body Division of General Motors Corporation. Development started in September 1942 in response to United States Army Air Forces requirement for a fighter possessing an extremely high rate of climb, using the most powerful liquid-cooled engine then available, the Allison V-3420. The program was cancelled after only a small number of prototypes and production aircraft had been completed, as it was no longer required in its original role, could not be quickly deployed, and possessed no significant advantages over aircraft already in production.
- The Fisher P-75 Eagle was an interceptor aircraft developed to meet an urgent USAAF requirement.
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| - liquid-cooled 24-cylinder double-Vee
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| - The first Fisher XP-75-GM, SN 43-46950, in flight.
- The last production P-75A , now in the USAF Museum in Dayton, OH
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| - Fisher Body Division, General Motors Corporation
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| - One 24 cylinder V-3240-19, rated at 2,600 hp
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| - Ten .5 in Machine gunsref|Of these, four would be mounted in the fuselage, and synchronished to fire between the prop blades. The remaining six would be unsynchronised, and mounted in the wings.|group="N"
- * 6x .50 caliber wing mounted machine guns
* 4x .50 caliber fuselage mounted machine guns
* 2x 500 lb bombs
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| - The General Motors/Fisher P-75 Eagle was a fighter aircraft designed by the Fisher Body Division of General Motors Corporation. Development started in September 1942 in response to United States Army Air Forces requirement for a fighter possessing an extremely high rate of climb, using the most powerful liquid-cooled engine then available, the Allison V-3420. The program was cancelled after only a small number of prototypes and production aircraft had been completed, as it was no longer required in its original role, could not be quickly deployed, and possessed no significant advantages over aircraft already in production.
- The Fisher P-75 Eagle was an interceptor aircraft developed to meet an urgent USAAF requirement.
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