Dixie-46*
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The Hughes XP-99 was a late war design that never got off the blueprints and into the factories, it had rotating propellers and a V-12 engine mounted behind the cockpit and a replaceable RATO rocket in the tail for extra boost.
The plane used many un-proven features for the time such as a tricycle landing gear as well as the contra-props and was to be armed with 3x20mm cannons, one in the nose and one in each wing plus 6x50cal heavy MGs , two in the nose and two in each wing .
The plane was un-officially dubbed the "lightning" and it's primary mission was to intercept Union bombers and their escort fighters that were wrecking the CSA across the map.
*Dixie-46 will be used for late war paper designs of the CSA that never went into production and feature very advanced or radical technologies for the time much like "Luftwaffe-1946" designs.
A slightly different painted version is over on the "TL-191 Featherston's Finest" Thread -
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