leaded50
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In1937 aircraft company Bell made a try for government contract on a "multipurpose" airplane. It should be working as a fighter with heavy armament , a escort support for bombers eg. They came up with a unconventional, bizarre long-range and heavily armed escort fighter featured twin pusher engines housed in glazed nacelles with different armament as canons and machineguns.
1 prototype was first made, the XFM-1 "canonship", who was a taildragger, had engines who got hot because not enough airing. After this one . 12 YFM reworked versions was produsert, with a dropdome-styled rear side gunposts as the Catalina, minor change at nacelles views for canoner, better airing of engines (who anyway get to hot at idle before taking off, so Jeeps was needed for trailing the planes to the airfields take off.) All this 12 had a three cycle landinggear.
The measures needed to fitted batterysize in the front fuselage, and with a very narrow width it sets the size of my build too. 970mm long, and width then needs be approx.1400mm to be correct scaled. I decided to make outer wing parts detachable.
1 prototype was first made, the XFM-1 "canonship", who was a taildragger, had engines who got hot because not enough airing. After this one . 12 YFM reworked versions was produsert, with a dropdome-styled rear side gunposts as the Catalina, minor change at nacelles views for canoner, better airing of engines (who anyway get to hot at idle before taking off, so Jeeps was needed for trailing the planes to the airfields take off.) All this 12 had a three cycle landinggear.
The measures needed to fitted batterysize in the front fuselage, and with a very narrow width it sets the size of my build too. 970mm long, and width then needs be approx.1400mm to be correct scaled. I decided to make outer wing parts detachable.
