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.htmThough 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