Morning clue. Thanks; Ernie P.
What warbird do I describe?
1. Sometimes things just don’t work out as planned.
2. This aircraft was one such attempt that certainly didn’t work as planned.
3. It was intended to fulfill a very narrow role; so large scale production was probably never in the plan.
4. Although it made its way into limited production, the results were very disappointing.
5. The first prototype was produced immediately prior to Pearl Harbor.
6. Five more were built in the next year.
7. The aircraft had no less than three interesting (for the time) innovations, all unique as far as it’s owning service was concerned.
8. None of the three innovations worked quite as planned.
9. This aircraft was intended to be the fastest of its type, for its time. While it was the fastest of its service, it was eventually surpassed by other aircraft of its type.
10. Primarily because two of the three innovations simply didn’t work, and the other was of limited value.