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Douglas DS-321A Pusher (1939) |
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In the late 1930s, as
America geared up for the war it knew it could not long avoid, U.S.
airplane manufacturers began developing concepts for large, heavy fighters
that could combine speed with overwhelming firepower. One of the seminal designs from this period was the Douglas DS-312A pusher. It was designed to have an Allison V-1710 liquid cooled engine mounted mid-fuselage and driving two counter-rotating rear-mounted propellers. Putting the props in back provided more room for big cannons up front. Although it never went into production, the DS-321A was the direct inspiration for an entire generation of WWII-era pusher projects, including the XP-52, the XP-54, The XP-55, and XP-56 and the XP-59. |
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