Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "Vought's F7U Cutlass Was Part Innovative Fighter And Part Safety Disaster" video.

  1. Saddled with the underperforming Westinghouse (1) axial flow engines and aerodynamics of questionable performance for the late 1940s. I wonder just what the difference a more powerful set of engines and fly by wire controls only really made possible in the 1970s would have made. 1) Westinghouse did have turbine engine experience prior to dipping their toes into aviation jet engine design. Unfortunately that experience was all in steam turbine or posdibly gas turbine units for power plant or possibly ship board use. The US market for steam turbines was pretty much dominated by General Electric and Westinghouse to my knowledge. And the Westinghouse was not the first acisl flow engine designed or built in the US. That goes to the Lockheed engine designed for their L-133. That engine was taken over by Marquart and never really did work out.
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  2. It took Vought three tries to get a capable carrier based jet fighter.
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  3. ​ @prowlus  If the insurance company is on the ball he probably cannot get life insurance. And that's what he really needs. Something that insures he survives.
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  4. Morphed into General Dynamics iirc.
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