Douglas XT-30

The Douglas XT-30 was a proposed American military advanced trainer that was never built. It was designed in 1948 to compete in a United States Air Force competition to replace the North American T-6 Texan. The design placed an 800 horsepower Wright R-1300 radial engine amidships behind the cockpit, in the manner of the P-39, driving a three-bladed propeller through an extension shaft, with pilot and pupil seated in tandem under a framed canopy on a straight low wing. Competing against the North American T-28 Trojan, the more complex XT-30 was not selected for production.