There was some sketches to a Bellanca Projects and ideas,also the Model 19-18,
a pusher light airplane,maybe with a twin boom configuration ?.

 

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Bellanca Aircraft looked at various projects to stay afloat during the Second World War.

Between August and November 1940, for example, it considered the possibility of setting up a factory, in Yonkers, New York, Brownsville, Texas, or possibly elsewhere, to build a very fast (80+ knots) and odd looking patrol torpedo boat for the U.S. Navy and the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy. No prototype was actually built.

Bellanca Aircraft was also involved in one of the first air launched stand off weapon projects launched by the American military. Designed in 1941, its GB-2 glide bomb was built around a 2,000 pound bomb. This weapon was briefly tested in early 1942, by the USAAF, but did not prove successful.

Unable to obtain airplane orders from the American military, Bellanca Aircraft produced producing machine gun turrets and components (ailerons, engine cowlings, flaps, wingtip floats, etc.) for other airplane makers. Mind you, the company later signed a contract to produce a twin-engine aerial gunnery trainer, the Fairchild AT-21 Gunner. Sadly enough, this machine proved rather unsuccessful. Bellanca Aircraft completed only a small number of airplanes in 1944.

All in all, subcontracting kept Bellanca Aircraft alive throughout the Second World War
 
The aforementioned patrol torpedo boat (first image and description courtesy of FarSight):
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This is a review of December 1942 issue of Mechanix Illustrated magazine. It describes some interesting weapon concepts including an advanced concept for a torpedo boat:

"The best article was on the proposed seven-man torpedo boat being designed by F. M. Bellanca of Bell P-39 fame. It is unorthodox even by today's standards. A fuselage, reminiscent of a B-25, sat above two hugs pontoons and steam turbine drove two contra-rotating pusher props. The multi-compartmented pontoons housed the fuel, boiler's water condensers and two torpedoes each that were catapult-launched by a hydraulic arm. The pontoon design kept it afloat even if compartments took in water due to damage. In that case self-bailers went into operation. The size of them made it un-swamp-able in rough seas.

What A Great Concept!

Further armament included two-twin .50 caliber power turrets up top and side blisters each with a fifty. The nose gunner had a 37mm cannon.

Drawing only nineteen inches of water, enemy torpedoes would pass under the craft. The robust power plant was secretly developed by Woodruff Warren and was thirty percent more efficient than comparable designs. The boilers were a variation of naval inventor Walter LaMont that built up high power to weight ratios and ran on a non-volatile equivalent of home heating oil. The system was closed circuit and the craft's boiler water recycled to the condensers for infinite use. No steam escaped from the machinery and the engine ran silently, save for the whir of the props.

This baby could hit 100 mph with an 8,000-mile range meaning it could leave a Pacific coast port and be off Japan in forty-eight hours. It could hit European targets in even less time.

Pictured was an actual 65 mph landing boat of conventional hull design being tested so the potential was real. Superlatives such as innovative, lethal, or efficient just can't describe it. It was just too damned cool!"

Second image is of a possibly related 1943 design by Alex Tremulis:
Via the Paleofuture blog (revised link), an illustration of of the 1943 design originally linked to by moin1900:
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I believe this is a Bellanca Trimotor. NASM identifies it as Bellanca Model 28-92
 

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The following might be of interest.

Eager to make a goodwill flight between the New York City and Bucharest, the capital of Romania, with a stop in Paris, Captain Alexandru Papană, contacted Bellanca Aircraft in early 1937. The well-connected young officer of the Aeronautică Regală Romană was one of the foremost aerobatic pilots in the world and the son of a well-known general.

Andrew Frank Haiduck, chief engineer at Bellanca Aircraft since 1935-36, supervised the design of a streamlined, single seat low wing monoplane with a retractable landing gear, the Model 28-92. Oddly enough, the airplane was fitted with a Ranger and two Menasco engines. Whether or not the cantilever wing of this airplane, a first for Bellanca Aircraft, was based on that of the Flash derivative designed for the Lindbergh Memorial Race is unclear. In any event, the Model 28-92 was built more or less in secret. It was christened Alba-Iulia 1918 to commemorate the addition of Transylvania into Romania, celebrated in Alba-Iulia, in December 1918.

Back in 1937, Bellanca Aircraft might have revisited the design of the Model 28-90 Flash racing plane for a forthcoming New York to Paris competition, the Lindbergh Memorial Race, announced in September 1936 by the French Air Minister. Pierre-Jules Cot had wanted to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the historic flight of May 1927. Sadly, this competition with very large prizes was plagued with problems almost from day one. The American organization put in charge of it, the National Aeronautic Association, had serious doubts. The start date eventually got moved to August 1937. In late April, the Bureau of Air Commerce of the Department of Commerce stated it would not let the race start on American soil, for fear that some of the participants would perish along the way. Pilots who had paid for their own airplanes were left holding the bag; they were furious. A few people suggested that the competition begin in Canada but nothing came of it. The Lindbergh Memorial Race did not take place. The new Bellanca airplane, which was to have a fully cantilever wing, was presumably not built.

In any event, Papană apparently wanted to make the aforementioned flight to Romania in September 1937. To prepare himself for the great journey, he planned to take part in National Air Races and the Bendix transcontinental air race, held between Los Angeles and Cleveland, Ohio. For some reason or other, Papană was unable to make the flight to his homeland. The Model 28-92 was thus entered in the aforementioned Lindbergh Memorial Race, which was later cancelled.

Later scheduled to take part in the Course aérienne internationale Istres-Damas-Istres, a competition set up as a substitute to the aforementioned Lindbergh Memorial Race, the Model 28-92 was in the United States being looked at when this competition began, in France, in August. Thirteen teams from France (four), Italy (eight) and the United Kingdom (one) had formally registered. Italian teams came in first, second and third – a profound embarrassment for the French airplane industry and the French government. One of the crew members on the third airplane was none other than Bruno Mussolini, one of the sons of the Italian dictator Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini.

This defeat was especially painful because the midway point of the race, Damascus, was the capital of Syria, a former component of the Ottoman Empire awarded to France after the First World War, as a mandate, by the League of Nations. The Model 28-92 did not take part in the National Air Races or the Bendix transcontinental air race either. Its inspection had yet to be completed.

Interested in making a round the world flight, a famous American aviator by the name of Frank Monroe Hawks got in touch with Bellanca Aircraft in early 1938 to see if he could use the Model 28-92. Papană, who still wanted to make a long-distance flight, had to look for another airplane. That project went nowhere. Sadly, Hawks and a well-off potential customer died in August 1938, while testing an unusual machine, the Gwinn Aircar. At the time, he was vice president in charge of sales at Gwinn Aircar Company.

Entered in the 1938 edition of the Bendix transcontinental air race, the Model 28-92 ran into more bad luck. Its pilot, Frank Cordova, called it quits because of engine trouble. In early September 1939, however, Arthur C. Bussey came in second in that same race

The sleek if strikingly unlucky Model 28-92 allegedly ended up in Ecuador where it rotted on a small airfield.
 
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Fortrena, that is an awesome recounting of the effort to design an international racing aircraft from Bellanca Aircraft. This makes a lot of sense as the registration number painted on the model YR-AHA is a Romanian (i.e. begining in YR)! And with a little research, WAHLA! https://oldmachinepress.com/2012/10/09/bellanca-28-92-tri-motor/
 

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