North American NA-116
NA-116 | |
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Role | Heavy bomber Type of aircraft |
National origin | United States |
Status | Cancelled before built |
Number built | 0 |
North American NA-116 was a WWII proposal for a four-engined twin-boom heavy bomber.[1][2]
Specifications
Data from[1]
- Crew: 12 (two pilots, a navigator (also doubling as the bombardier), a radio operator and no fewer than eight machine gunners)
- Length: 85.8 ft (26.2 m)
- Wingspan: 154 ft (47 m)
- Gross weight: 80,000–132,000 lb (36,287–59,874 kg)
- Powerplant: 4 × Pratt & Whitney XR-4360-SSG21-5, 3,450 hp (2,570 kW) each
- Performance
- Range: 5,000 mi (8,000 km, 4,300 nmi) (Fully loaded and fully fueled)
- Armament
- 4 x 0.50 caliber heavy machine guns (Nose gunner), 2 x 0.50 cal HMGs installed side-by-side (Dorsal Turret), each dorsal boom turret was outfitted with 2 x 0.50 caliber HMGs 2 x 20mm autocannons positioned at the end of the fuselage in a trainable mounting 2 x 20mm autocannons (Tail boom gun positions)
- This equaled 10 x 0.50 caliber HMGs (though as many as 14 may have been carried before the end) and 6 x 20mm autocannons.
- Internal bomb load of up to 34,000 lb of drop stores
- 4 x 0.50 caliber heavy machine guns (Nose gunner), 2 x 0.50 cal HMGs installed side-by-side (Dorsal Turret), each dorsal boom turret was outfitted with 2 x 0.50 caliber HMGs 2 x 20mm autocannons positioned at the end of the fuselage in a trainable mounting 2 x 20mm autocannons (Tail boom gun positions)
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- NA-420
- NA-430
- NA-431
- D481
- NA-704
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- See also: Aero Commander
References
- ^ a b "North American NA-116". www.militaryfactory.com. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
- ^ Buttler, Tony, and Griffith, Alan, 2015. American Secret Projects: Fighters, Bombers, and Attack Aircraft, 1937–1945. Manchester: Crecy Publishing. ISBN 978-1906537487.