From the "obscura" files today...2nd: Marton X/V prototype
Wow..talk about slick....
Very, little to be found on the bird, except for a few references & pictures on a few forum posts.
http://www.internetmodeler.com/2005/march/first-looks/rs_marton.php
Quote:
This is from the instructions, as I had never heard of this aircraft. In 1943 the Marton XV-01 was developed as a heavy fighter. The twin-boomed tricycle gear design was designed to use two DB 605 engines, one tractor and one pusher. It was to be armed with a 30mm engine-mounted cannon, two heavy machine guns in the cowling, and additional cannons in the wing roots and boom leading edges. This would make for a very heavy hitting aircraft. The aircraft was to have an ejection seat, designed on a twin rail system powered by a spring. In 1944, the fuselage and wing structure were completed, but they were destroyed in an Allied bombing raid in April 1944
It seems that these pics are not of the actual bird itself......but rather press / sales promo pics made out of the proto mock-up.
Was supposedly destroyed by allied bombing in 1944
http://aviation-ancienne.forumactif.com/quizz-aeronautiques-f19/quizz-sur-les-avions-t3182-690.htm
Seems to me this is a Fokker XXIII with new DB engines added ? But I cannot correlate Fokker to Morton
http://www.aviastar.org/air/holland/fokker_d-23.php
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