Evening clue. Thanks; Ernie P.
What warbird do I describe?
1. This aircraft was designed to fulfill a single, limited and very specific mission.
2. In fact, it could have performed that complete mission during a single, successful strike.
3. Had it been successful in that single strike, it would have fulfilled its entire reason for being designed and built in that one strike.
4. And that one strike could have been flown by the single aircraft of its type produced. Yes; only one was ever produced.
5. And, oddly enough, that single strike would have been performed during peacetime.
6. It was an experimental aircraft.
7. Only one was built; although two were planned. But the entire budget, and quite a bit more, was spent in producing the single plane.
8. And the company was made to pay the cost overrun themselves.
9. The cost overruns doomed the company that built it.