There is a mention:
" Thoughts were given to a very radical P-51 with both a prop and a jet engine. This design concept had wings that were 'swept' forward. It was found that 'aft sweep' gave wingtip stall problems, so forward sweep was studied first. But the swept-wing P-51 never went beyond the drawing board as the wing suffered from a twisting divergence under load."
of this oddity on this site in the fifth paragraph:
http://sabre-pilots.org/classics/v41develop.htm

Though the plane may not have made it past the drawing board, (lots of planes never did) at least the wing may have for testing purposes.

I have seen a plan for this plane once so there must be some drawings out there somewhere. I can hardly imagine this development late in time to have anything but the bubble canopy yet the model plan I saw most certain;y had the early style canopy and turtle deck. At least that is how I remember it. Could there have been another FSW version considered before the canopy change took place?

Any help or knowledge of this?

Robert
 

Gee, it's bigger than that in my document file! If you want a hard copy mailed to you let me know where to send it.

Don

Unfortunately, my source for the drawing doesn't contain any further info. It came out of the Squadron/Signal book "F-86 Sabre in Action". Was contained in a brief section on developments leading up to the Sabre.

Don