The Bell XP-52 was a World War II fighter design project by the American Bell Aircraft Corporation, begun by the company in 1940 under the Air Material Command designator MX-3. It was laid out with a twin-boom arrangement and a piston engine mounted in the rear, driving a pair of contra-rotating pusher propellers, and its wings were swept back at an angle of 20 degrees. The XP-52 was canceled in October 1940 because its intended engine ran into technical difficulties, and no aircraft was built. The subsequent XP-59 project kept the twin-boom pusher layout; when it was canceled in November 1941 its XP-59A designation was reused as a cover for a secret jet fighter prototype that entered production as the P-59 Airacomet.
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