Fiction Tailless Pusher-Engines Fighter of WW2

[hesham]

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.

 

[Stargazer]

Apart from the added rudders, it's pretty much a Northrop N-9M to me.

 

[hesham]

Apart from the added rudders, it's pretty much a Northrop N-9M to me.

Yes my dear Skyblazer,


but so weird,that Northrop never tried to develop N-9 into a fighter ?!.

 

[Stargazer]

but so weird,that Northrop never tried to develop N-9 into a fighter ?!.

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...

 

[hesham]

Thank you my dear Skyblazer.

 

[Michel Van]

from the Nose section and wing tips
could be a Boeing model 306 from year 1935

 

[hesham]

No my dear Michel,


there is a mainly different between the two designs.

 

[Jemiba]

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 ....

 

[hesham]

OK my dear Jemiba.