From att-mt!ihlpl.att.com!jfb Fri May 14 12:22:38 1993
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From: jfb@ihlpl.att.com
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Subject: Number Sixty-Eight in the Series--Vultee XP-68 Tornado
Keywords: Never built
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>From jfb@ihlpl.att.com


The Vultee XP-68 Tornado was a proposed version of the XP-54 
experimental pusher fighter.  The XP-68 was to be powered by the 
42-cylinder Wright R-2160 Tornado radial engine driving a set of 
contrarotating propellers.  In July of 1941, the USAAF assigned the 
designation XP-68 to the project.  In the event, the Wright Tornado 
engine project was abandoned before anything could be built, and the 
XP-68 project never got off the drawing board.  The XP-68 was 
officially cancelled on November 22, 1941.  

Sources: 

  The American Fighter, Enzo Angelucci and Peter Bowers, Orion, 1987.  

  American Combat Planes, Ray Wagner, 3rd Edition, Doubleday, 1982.  

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