Essentially what they did was re-create the R-3350s from a Super Constellation or a B-50.
Totally understandable considering the per hour costs of four R-3350s, and the fact that FIFI is the only flyable example of a B-29 on the planet.
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Personally speaking, the P-40 could contend on an equal footing with all the types of Messerschmitts, almost to the end of 1943.
~Nikolay Gerasimovitch Golodnikov
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