Right. If it has jet engines, fixed wings, and doesn't land on a ship...
@Smokin Joe Can you even BEGIN to imagine all the hissy-fits and slaps that went on between the US Navy and the USAF over "who "owns" the cargo plane contracts?"
I think the only reason that one didn't "blow up" was because WW-2 was raging,and the US needed all the cargo planes they could get,and there was and is no way in HELL to land a cargo plane on a carrier and have it take off and do anything more than make a big splash when it leaves the deck.
Besides,they were both so busy designing and putting new cargo planes and fighter plans online to meet the 1941-1945 requirements that they probably just didn't have the time to have hissy-fits.
Add to that the FACT that the Navy fighters had to have different designs as well as different structural support to be able to fold the fights wings for storage below,as well as to handle the "sudden stops" when the fighters returned and had to land and be caught be a steel cable to keep them from running off the other end of the deck and crashing into the sea.
The fact that BOTH managed to design and put the fighters into production in such a short time and have them actually working and holding up is a tribute to BOTH forces.
Hell,they even managed to come up with new designs while the war was going on that no one had even thought of before. Planes like the p-15 and even the first jet fighters,for example. I stand in awe of their engineering ability.
I can't stop without adding the FACT that a lot of those late-ww2 fighters were STILL being used for close ground support operations in VN. I do not mind admitting that I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for the close air support these "obsolete WW-2 fighter/bombers provided us in VN,Cambodia,Laos,and NVN.