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.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/XP-81.jpg/300px-XP-81.jpg)
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