name this plane (for fun)

[Soviet Ace]

Originally Posted by Panzergranate

The correct answer was the P-66 Vultee Vangard.

The Valient and the Texan were both derived from it as it was not that brilliant as a fighter, being found to be inferiour to the P-40 when in US Army service in 1941 - 1942.

Bearing in mind that the P-40 was not a brilliant fighter when compared to European and Japanese fighters, you can see why it was passed on pretty quickly to the Canadians and the Chinese.

All Japenese Army aircraft are preceeded by the "Ki" monicker.

Ki-21 "Helen" twin engined bomber.
Ki-27 "Claude" fixed undercarriage mono-plane fighter.
Ki-43 "Oscar" fighter.

Try this one......

Clues:

Derived from the failed NF-1 US Navy first mono-plane fighter competition fighter. (It failed to leave the ground during the contest).

This is regarded as the least successful fighter of WW2 with just 1.5 kills from just over 1,000 aircraft built.

Flown also by the Australians for home defence only.

It was very fast at 380 MPH but suffer from poor agility and maniverability.

A very famous WW2 fighter was developed from it.

So what is it??

P-36 Hawk