Fiction Tailless Pusher-Engines Fighter of WW2

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From the magazine Cadet 1/1943,


here is a fiction tailless fighter of WW2,fitted with a big cannon,powered by two pusher engines,
it looks like Northrop design.
 

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Apart from the added rudders, it's pretty much a Northrop N-9M to me.
 
Skyblazer said:
Apart from the added rudders, it's pretty much a Northrop N-9M to me.
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Yes my dear Skyblazer,


but so weird,that Northrop never tried to develop N-9 into a fighter ?!.
 
hesham said:
but so weird,that Northrop never tried to develop N-9 into a fighter ?!.
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They already had the N-2 program active in the fighter department. The N-9 was the bomber.

A fighter had to have rudders of some kind, at least in the eyes of the military top brass...
 
from the Nose section and wing tips
could be a Boeing model 306 from year 1935


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No my dear Michel,


there is a mainly different between the two designs.
 
There's a difference, of course, but I think, Michel is quite right.
This thread is about a fictional fighter, but surely it has characteristics
of designs, that were known then and probably regarded the way,
aircraft would look like in, say, 20 years ?
The artist probably know about the N-9M and maybe about the Boeing
design, too. He just mixed, what he found to be looking best.
Nowadays artist impressions of "future fighters" probably often are
made the same way. A bit of Lockheed and Boeing stealth features,
a bit of Starwars and maybe, if the artist is old enough to remember,
a bit of Colani .... ;)
 

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