{"id":5907033,"date":"2026-07-17T11:49:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=5907033"},"modified":"2026-07-20T16:02:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:02:03","slug":"fisher-p-75-eagle-parts-bin-fighter-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/fisher-p-75-eagle-parts-bin-fighter-wwii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fighter Built From Spare Parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style><\/p>\r\n<p>In 1942, someone at General Motors had a tidy idea: instead of designing a new fighter from scratch, why not bolt one together from parts of aircraft that already existed? Take a Mustang\u2019s wings, a dive-bomber\u2019s tail, a Corsair\u2019s landing gear, wrap them around the most powerful engine in America, and you would have a war-winning interceptor in a fraction of the time.<\/p>\r\n<p>The result was the Fisher P-75 Eagle. It is remembered today as one of the worst aircraft the United States built in the entire Second World War.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background: #f5f5f5; padding: 20px; border-radius: 8px; margin: 24px 0;\">\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: .03em; color: #111;\">QUICK FACTS<\/p>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 12px 6px 0; font-weight: 600; color: #333; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\">Role<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #444;\">Single-seat fighter (interceptor, then escort)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 12px 6px 0; font-weight: 600; color: #333; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\">First flight<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #444;\">17 November 1943<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 12px 6px 0; font-weight: 600; color: #333; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\">Designer<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #444;\">Don R. Berlin (Fisher Body Division, General Motors)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 12px 6px 0; font-weight: 600; color: #333; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\">Powerplant<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #444;\">Allison V-3420, 24-cylinder, ~2,885 hp, contra-rotating props<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 12px 6px 0; font-weight: 600; color: #333; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\">Number built<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #444;\">14 (8 XP-75 + 6 P-75A)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 12px 6px 0; font-weight: 600; color: #333; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\">Fate<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #444;\">Cancelled 6 October 1944; one survivor at the NMUSAF<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">A fighter from the parts bin<\/h2>\r\n<p>The concept was championed at the highest levels of wartime production, and on paper it was seductive. The outer wings would come from the P-51 Mustang (later swapped for P-40 panels), the tail from the Douglas Dauntless dive-bomber, the landing gear from the F4U Corsair. The engine sat behind the pilot, driving contra-rotating propellers through long extension shafts \u2014 the layout of the Bell P-39 Airacobra.<\/p>\r\n<p>At its heart was the Allison V-3420: essentially two V-1710 engines welded onto a common crankcase, a 24-cylinder monster making close to 2,900 horsepower. The Eagle was designed around a demand for a phenomenal rate of climb, and that engine was supposed to deliver it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 24px 0;\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0; border-radius: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cW-PPgYgYuc\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-no-lazy=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin: 0 0 24px;\"><img data-opt-id=2045323890  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; border-radius: 6px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/fisher-p-75a-eagle-museum.jpg\" alt=\"Fisher P-75A Eagle\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/>\r\n<figcaption style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #777; text-align: center; margin-top: 6px; font-style: italic;\">The sole surviving P-75A Eagle, restored at the National Museum of the US Air Force. Just 14 were ever built. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>It did not work. When the XP-75 first flew on 17 November 1943, the problems came thick and fast: the centre of gravity was miscalculated, the engine never made its promised power, cooling was inadequate, the ailerons were brutally heavy, and the spin behaviour was dangerous. The parts, it turned out, had been designed for other aircraft with other flight characteristics \u2014 and forcing them together produced something that flew worse than any of its donors.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">Never an Eagle<\/h2>\r\n<p>Aviation historian Stephan Wilkinson did not mince words about where the P-75 ranks.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background: #f8f9fa; border-left: 4px solid  #d32f2f; padding: 20px 22px; margin: 18px 0 24px; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7; display: flex; gap: 20px; align-items: flex-start;\">\r\n<div><em>\u201cThe Fisher XP-75 Eagle was the worst aircraft that U.S. taxpayers bought during World War II.\u201d<\/em>\r\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; font-size: 14px; color: #555;\"><strong>Stephan Wilkinson<\/strong> \u2014 aviation historian, HistoryNet<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>By the time the Eagle was flying, the argument for it had collapsed anyway. The P-51 Mustang and P-38 Lightning were already escorting bombers deep into Germany and back, brilliantly. The P-75 offered nothing they did not already do better, could not be fielded quickly, and was no longer needed. A conditional order for 2,500 aircraft was cancelled on 6 October 1944 after just 14 had been built.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin: 0 0 24px;\"><img data-opt-id=759837869  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; border-radius: 6px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/fisher-p-75-eagle-wpafb.jpg\" alt=\"Fisher P-75 Eagle\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/>\r\n<figcaption style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #777; text-align: center; margin-top: 6px; font-style: italic;\">The Eagle\u2019s mid-mounted Allison V-3420 drove contra-rotating propellers through long extension shafts \u2014 a mechanically complex arrangement that never delivered. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background: #f8f9fa; border-left: 4px solid  #d32f2f; padding: 20px 22px; margin: 18px 0 24px; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7; display: flex; gap: 20px; align-items: flex-start;\">\r\n<div><em>\u201cIn an inverse affirmation of the old clich\u00e9 \"If it looks good, it\u2019ll fly good,\" the P-75 looked clumsy and flew badly. Never an Eagle, it was certainly a turkey.\u201d<\/em>\r\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; font-size: 14px; color: #555;\"><strong>Stephan Wilkinson<\/strong> \u2014 aviation historian, HistoryNet<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>The lesson has aged well. A fighter is not a collection of good parts; it is a single, coherent design in which everything is balanced against everything else. Swap in a wing built for a different aircraft and you inherit its assumptions, not just its shape. The Eagle is the cautionary tale every aircraft designer knows \u2014 and the sole survivor, sitting quietly in a Dayton museum, is its monument.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 24px 0;\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0; border-radius: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oQVjRbREZR4\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-no-lazy=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p><em>Sources: Stephan Wilkinson, \"Why America\u2019s XP-75 Eagle Was a Turkey,\" HistoryNet; National Museum of the USAF; Wikipedia.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background: #f0f4ff; border-left: 4px solid #5C91FF; padding: 16px 20px; margin: 32px 0 8px; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0;\">\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 8px; font-weight: 600; color: #333;\">Related Posts<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 4px 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/bell-yfm-1-airacuda-bomber-destroyer\/\">The Flying Cruiser That Made No Sense<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 4px 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/martin-xb-51-three-engine-jet-bomber\/\">The Three-Engine Jet That America Forgot<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Motors tried to build a war-winning fighter from other aircraft\u2019s parts. 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