ORIGINAL: gboulton
That is correct from what I remember my father (who helped design the aircraft) telling me.
That's way cool. Was he the guy who decided to try the Coke bottle shape to alleviate the standing wave drag on the fuselage?
That was a FAST airplane. Even some modern fighters have trouble keeping up with it flat out in a straight line. I used to love the disticntive howl those engines made when I and they were still at Hickam AFB.