Timm AG-2

AG-2
Role Assault glider
National origin United States
Manufacturer Timm Aircraft Company
Status Project cancelled
Number built None


The Timm AG-2 was a proposed Second World War American assault glider part of a United States Army assault glider project, none were built and the programme was cancelled in September 1943.[1][2]

Design and development

The United States Army had an idea to procure an assault glider, an armed glider that would land first and help secure the landing site for the use by transport gliders.[1] Each assault glider would have six glidermen as well as the pilot and co-pilot, the glidermen would be armed with two 0.50 and two 0.30 calibre machine guns and two rocket launchers.[1] Contracts were awarded in May 1943 to two companies, the Christopher Company and the Timm Aircraft Company, each to build two prototypes.[1] The Timm prototype was designated the XAG-2 and was to have been a low-wing cantilever monoplane with a gross weight of 8500 lb.[1] General Chidlaw in the Office of the Assistant Chief of Air Staff decided that it was damned fool idea and cancelled the project in September 1943.[1]

Specifications

Data from Mrazek[1]

General characteristics

Performance

See also

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era

References

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Note

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mrazek 2011, p. 416
  2. Andrade 1979, p. 39

Bibliography

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