Northrop XP-56a Black Bullet
Within the US Army's Request for Data R-40C document the Army described the need to try designs that departed from the conventional and could be ready for production in 1942. Three firms won the right to proceed with radical aircraft. Vultee submitted a twin-boom pusher called the XP-54. Curtiss offered a canard pusher designated the XP-55 Ascender (see NASM collection) while Northrop proposed the stubby, menacing, tailless XP-56 Black Bullet. Only two prototypes flew, the first crashing, and the second having incurable stability and handling problems that the project was cancelled. This is a conversion of an Fs9 Northrop XP-56A Black Bullet aircraft by Jeffrey Nissen to CFS2 by Shessi.
by Shessi
Within the US Army's Request for Data R-40C document the Army described the need to try designs that departed from the conventional and could be ready for production in 1942. Three firms won the right to proceed with radical aircraft. Vultee submitted a twin-boom pusher called the XP-54. Curtiss offered a canard pusher designated the XP-55 Ascender (see NASM collection) while Northrop proposed the stubby, menacing, tailless XP-56 Black Bullet. Only two prototypes flew, the first crashing, and the second having incurable stability and handling problems that the project was cancelled. This is a conversion of an Fs9 Northrop XP-56A Black Bullet aircraft by Jeffrey Nissen to CFS2 by Shessi.
by Shessi
