Talk:Bell P-59 Airacomet/@comment-2601:646:8F01:D716:D890:4C95:4F03:78F-20171108224557

What if Bell took a stock P-63 and left off the spinner for a jet intake?

The jet engine would be in the same place as the inline.

Add a rocket booster in the tail for quick intercept.

A high velocity M9 37mm cannon in each side with ammo on the cg. Maybe 4x0.50s too. This could KO tanks, unlike the M4/M10 packing Cobras.

Use all the advances like the bubble canopy and the swept wings tested on Cobras already.

Wings could hold the fuel.

It would be lighter -  just one jet engine and with much less drag, hopefully faster than the P-59.

Production would be 90% ready to go mid-war!

Call it the P-63J for jet.

The P-63 seems ahead of it's time in many ways. I don't know about the P-59.