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Hi, Within the Texan/Harvard STGB I tried to construct the NA 50 fighter conversion of Harvard. The work was prepossessed by discussion on WWII part of BM Forum Thanks for all comments given there. Following the discussion the WIP thread is here: The NA 50 was a kind of "bush fighter" concept - an idea of cheep and "enough good" modern fighter based on a two seater trainer proposed to the small, underdeveloped countries. This idea, born in the end of thirties died when WW2 ended and US had thousands of not-needed (thus really cheep) much better war machines sold then to all over the world, among them to all Latin America countries. Th NA 50 was produced in series of 13 machines and the only country which used it was Peru. Then there were two more attempts of making a single seat fighter from Harvard/Texan: the NA 68 (P-64) and CAC Boomerang. Peru used those fighters in a war against Ecuator them in July 1941. This was a small local war (still people were dying in it), I think completely forgotten due to the times, when it happened. Peru had much more advanced military equipment then Ecuador, the fight ended after about month. More here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuadorian–Peruvian_War. Below is the result of mine attempts, the machine No 50948 of Lt Cap. Antonio Alberti, (squadron leader) of 41 Escuadrilla de XXI Escuadron de Caza of Peru from the short war in July 1941 against Ecuador: Comments welcomes Regards Jerzy-Wojtek
