rainfall, e-mail, 28.05.2025 00:35 Not really "closely cowled", just a very broad based / wide diameter streamlined spinner. If the R-37's original cooling system proved inadequate, replacing this unusual spinner with a more conventional streamlined unit like that used by the Bloch 151, Koolhoven FK-58, or LeO 451 etc, would likely have been a simple way to correct this. Adopting the 451's innovative cowling/spinner combo would also have worked well. France ought to have funded greatly accelerated construction & development of R-37 prototypes from early 1938 onward instead of the mediocre Koolhoven FK-38, which unlike the R-37 had no direct already test flown and already impressive predecessor at the time. Renard, if they sub-contracted Koolhoven to build the aft fuselage & tail assemblies, could likely have completed about 20 airframes per month from spring 1939 onward. More than enough engines could be supplied if France had put a stop to the horrendous Bloch 150 series from the outset.

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Klaatu83, e-mail, 05.08.2015 17:39 Three prototypes of this fighter were built, one with an Hispano-Suiza engine, one with a Gnome-Rhone air-cooled radial engine (shown here), and one with a British Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. None of them went into production, since the Belgians decided to order Hawker Hurricanes instead. The engine on this version is so closely cowled that it is difficult to believe that the engine would have received adequate cooling.

Ruben, e-mail, 15.07.2013 16:24 it looks like a LA-5 ( a bit!)

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Doug Booth, e-mail, 16.06.2012 19:46 Actually, relative to its' contemporaries the Spitfire and the Hurricane, the Renard had fairly adequate armament, .5 Brownings as opposed to various numbers of rather inadequate .303s.

baiwang, 20.06.2011 14:31 The pilots forward vision would leave a lot to be desired and it was too lightly armed.

Leo Rudnicki, e-mail, 08.10.2009 13:39 A Lockheed Ventura II serial # AJ-388 was delivered to the RCAF in new Brunswick Nov 29,1943. The designer # is 137-27-01. It was scrapped in oct 1944. It was received in used condition.

Steven Gohman, e-mail, 08.10.2009 11:52 I have found a reference to an R-37 (serial AJ-388) having a take-off accident leading to a collision w/ a parked B-17F 42-29589 at Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Penn. on 12 Nov 43. Is There some other a/c model that is "R-37" beside the Renard? If the Germans captured THE R-37 in '40, and we hadn'd bugun capturing-back stuff in Europe in '43, what R-37 had this accident? Thanks, Steve

leo rudniski, e-mail, 09.04.2009 01:57 Not at all like the early FW190 spinner but reminiscent of the Morane-Saulnier Bullet spinner. The Bullet did not overheat. The spinner is annular as opposed to ducted on FW.

ika 244, e-mail, 23.02.2009 01:19 The R-37 has a ceiling-11 500m and range- 1000km

Stuart Waters, e-mail, 09.07.2007 22:48 Looking at this aircraft I can see where Kurt Tank got his idea for the FW 190's original spinner/cowling arrangement from, I would imagine though, just as Tank found out, that this system would tend towards overheating! The pilots forward vision would leave a lot to be desired and it was too lightly armed.