Phillips and Powis (MIles) X2 bomber proposal - 1938

[Schneiderman]

In 1938 Fred MIles submitted his design for a 'blended wing' airliner to the Air Ministry, roughly in line with specifications 14/38 and 15/38. In the brochure he also included a speculative adaptation of the project as a bomber. It had five turrets and two side gun posts giving a total firepower of 4 37mm cannons plus 14 .303 Brownings. No details of load or performance were included.
Here is my model of the project.

 

[airman]

In 1938 Fred MIles submitted his design for a 'blended wing' airliner to the Air Ministry, roughly in line with specifications 14/38 and 15/38. In the brochure he also included a speculative adaptation of the project as a bomber. It had five turrets and two side gun posts giving a total firepower of 4 37mm cannons plus 14 .303 Brownings. No details of load or performance were included.
Here is my model of the project.
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There was a similar thread in this forum : so this is the variant bomber of Miles X-2 .

 

[Schneiderman]

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There was a similar thread in this forum : so this is the variant bomber of Miles X-2 .
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Yes...that's why it says X2 in the thread title

 

[Hood]

That's got to be one of the most unusual tail gun turret layouts ever! Imagine the complexity of the feed shoots for those and the magazine arrangements!

 

[woodville]

Here are two drawings from 'Miles Aircraft - The Early Years'

 

[Sherman Tank]

That's got to be one of the most unusual tail gun turret layouts ever! Imagine the complexity of the feed shoots for those and the magazine arrangements!

And from what I can make of the plans no ability to fire dead astern, making the whole monstrosity an even more incomprehensible design decision.

 

[Schneiderman]

The second diagram shows the field of fire from all the turrets. There were to be 4 Brownings in the tail cone, although when I built the model it was hard to see how these would have been installed