Strange Airplanes from WWII

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It was half scale and a proof of concept demo; so it's bound to look odd, but still the Boulton Paul P.92 was a strange one.

This, believe it or not was supposed to be built as a testbed for a fighter-interceptor and was proposed pretty much just after the Defiant specification came out. It was a three-seater armed with a 360 degree in azimuth four 20 mm cannon turret mounted on top, the turret actually got legs in the R &D department of the Air Ministry as there were several proposals for it, including mounting two of them on a Manchester and on the B.1/39 specification, which the British termed "The Ideal Bomber", which was never built...


From here, with some context on the fabulous Secret Projects forum:

 

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