Sparky got it, I think you got my last one too....Brewster F2A Buffalo
The Buffalo had a Wright R-1820-22 Cyclone engine and won a competition against the Grumman F4F Wildcat in 1939 to become the U.S. Navy's first monoplane fighter aircraft was one of the first U.S. monoplanes with an arrestor hook and was obsolete because unstable and overweight, especially when compared to the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero. The Soviets tried lightening the plate but didn't seem very effective.
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