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Messerschmitt Me 509

World War Two
German (Luftwaffe)
all-metal fighter project (canceled along with Me 309)
based on the Me 309 but with the engine(Daimler-Benz DB 605B) located behind a pressurized cockpit
armament: two 13 mm MG 131 machine guns & two 20 mm MG 151/20 cannon
Japanese made a similar aircraft, Yokosuka R2Y Keiun, which suffered from engine overheating