Curtiss P-1032-13

Single-Seat Jet-Powered Fighter Proposal

United States | 1946

"The P-1032-13 was the forth - and final - jet-powered fighter offered to the USAAF regarding the P-1032 fighter proposal of World War 2."

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The forth, and final, proposal by the Curtiss Aeroplane Company concerning P-1032 - a single-seat fighter for the then-United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) - arrived in February of 1944 alongside the P-1032-7, the P-1032-9, and the P-1032-11. In the P-132-7, the aircraft was of conventional arrangement and buried its single turbojet engine in the fuselage. The P-1032-9 followed by "podding" its twin-engine arrangement in underslung wing nacelles. The P-1032-11 was to outdo them all by combining the inherent performance power of a turboprop engine at the nose and a turbojet engine in the fuselage.

The P-1032-13 reverted back to a more traditional arrangement in that a pair of turbojet engines were paired under the fuselage, reducing complexity of a long intake duct assembly by way of its straight-thru approach, making the engines readily accessible to ground crew, and concentrating performance power at the center of the aircraft.

Beyond this, the airframe remained largely faithful to the original: the 4 x 20mm internal automatic cannon arrangement was buried in the nose. The single crewman sat under a largely unobstructed canopy just aft of the nose assembly. The mainplanes were of straight, tapering design with clipped tips, and the empennage comprised a single vertical tailplane with low-set horizontal control planes. A fully-wheeled, fully-retractable undercarriage would be used for ground-running.

The engine of choice was the General Electric J35 (TG-180) turbojet engine and these were to be seated in a side-by-side arrangement directly under the fuselage (the belly). The combined power would have provided for rather excellent performance figures in theory, limited only by range as early-form turbojets were fuel-thirsty solutions.

To compensate for the range restriction, it was thought that a pair of 300-gallon jettisonable fuel tanks could be carried under the wings to compensate for the elevated fuel burn.

Beyond this, the P-1032-13 proposal has a wingspan of 45.8 feet and a running length of 44.01 feet. Performance figures were not estimated though may have been similar to the P-1032-9 and its twin-engine arrangement.

At any rate, the P-1032-13 joined its counterparts in not being evolved beyond the "paper" stage, leaving it to the pages of Curtiss aircraft history.

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Power & Performance
Those special qualities that separate one aircraft design from another. Performance specifications presented assume optimal operating conditions for the Curtiss P-1032-13 Single-Seat Jet-Powered Fighter Proposal.

2 x General Electric J35 (TG-180) turbojet engines of unknown thrust output mounted under the belly of the aircraft; presumably around 4,000lb thrust each unit.
Propulsion

621 mph
1,000 kph | 540 kts
Max Speed

40,026 ft
12,200 m | 8 miles
Service Ceiling

1,491 miles
2,400 km | 1,296 nm
Operational Range

6,650 ft/min
2,027 m/min
Rate-of-Climb

Structure
The nose-to-tail, wingtip-to-wingtip physical qualities of the Curtiss P-1032-13 Single-Seat Jet-Powered Fighter Proposal.

1
(MANNED)
Crew

45.1 ft
13.75 m
O/A Length

45.8 ft
(13.95 m)
O/A Width

20,801 lb
(9,435 kg)
Empty Weight

25,188 lb
(11,425 kg)
MTOW

Armament
Available supported armament and special-mission equipment featured in the design of the Curtiss P-1032-13 Single-Seat Jet-Powered Fighter Proposal .

PROPOSED:
4 x 20mm automatic cannons in the nose.

OPTIONAL:
2 x 300gal external jettisonable fuel tanks at underwing hardpoints for extended operational ranges.

Variants
Notable series variants as part of the Curtiss P-1032-13 family line.

P-1032-13 - Forth proposal seating twin turbojets in side-by-side formation under the fuselage.

P-1032-7 - Original proposal with single-engine (embedded) turbojet configuration.

P-1032-9 - Second proposal with twin-turbojet (podded) configuration.

P-1032-11 - Third proposal with hybrid / combination turboprop-turbojet (inline) arrangement.

Operators
Global customers who have evaluated and/or operated the Curtiss P-1032-13. Nations are displayed by flag, each linked to their respective national aircraft listing.

Total Production: 0 Units
Contractor(s): Curtiss Aeroplane Company - USA

[ United States (cancelled) ]

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