Allies Question..

[Coors9]

Did the Allies have any fighters or bombers on the drawing board tha never got build ....maybe some pics ???

 

[vikingBerserker]

The XB-30 XB-31 comes to mind which I was reading about the other night.

Lockheed XB-30 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Douglas XB-31 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Vahe Demirjian]

Here's pics of models of Britain's unbuilt Victory Bomber, which would have had a wingspan exceeding that of the B-29 and B-32:

 

[fubar57]

The wooden one is the wind tunnel model of the Vickers High Altitude Bomber

 

[Vahe Demirjian]

The XB-30 XB-31 comes to mind which I was reading about the other night.

Lockheed XB-30 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Douglas XB-31 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Tupolev design bureau had its own project for a long-range bomber in WW2, the Tupolev ANT-64. Pictures of the ANT-64 (below) are available from Туполев Ту-64 (Ту-10).

I've posted a drawing of the Douglas XB-31 (Model 332F) bomber derivative of the DC-4 and the Douglas Model 423 intercontinental bomber (the one with the bug-eye cockpit) to give you an idea of what the XB-31 would have looked like. As Alan Griffith has noted, the true XB-31 is the Model 332F, not the Model 423, because the Model 423 was conceived in late 1941, long after the XB-30 and XB-31 lost out to the XB-29 and XB-32 in the R40-B competition.

 

[Niceoldguy58]

The drawings seen above were done by me, Alan Griffith, and are copyrighted to me.

AlanG

 

[Wurger]

Removed.