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The Miller JM-2 was an American Formula One Air Racing homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Jim W Miller and produced by JW Miller Aviation of Marble Falls, Texas. When it was available the aircraft was supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction.〔Plane and Pilot: ''1978 Aircraft Directory'', page 147. Werner & Werner Corp, Santa Monica CA, 1977. ISBN 0-918312-00-0〕 ==Design and development== Miller opted for an unorthodox configuration in developing a racing aircraft that would be as fast as possible on . The JM-2 features a cantilever mid-wing, a single-seat enclosed open cockpit under a bubble canopy, tricycle landing gear with fixed main wheels and a retractable nose wheel, and a single engine in pusher configuration, mounted within a fan shroud, with the spinner acting as the aircraft's tailcone. The fan shroud structure provides a place to mount the rudders and the tailplane is mounted high in T-tail configuration as an extension of the shroud. There is a small canard surface mounted on the nose.〔 The aircraft is of mixed construction, with the fuselage made from four fiberglass panels and the span wing covered in fiberglass and resin-reinforced honeycomb material. As required by the Formula One rules, the engine used was a Continental O-200B powerplant, the "B" being the pusher-configured version of the engine.〔 The JM-2 has an empty weight of and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of the payload is .〔 The JM-2 was further developed into the one-of-a-kind racing aircraft, the Miller-Bohannon JM-2 Pushy Galore. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Miller JM-2」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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