During 1942 the US Navy let contracts for the development of several amphibious transport gliders. Two of the contracts called for twelve-seaters manufactured primarily from non-strategic materials, these being the Allied XLRA 1 and the Bristol XLRQ 1.
The Allied XLRA 1 was a low wing cantilever monoplane constructed mainly of moulded plastic plywood and carrying two crew members seated in tandem, and ten troops. A jettisonable undercarriage was fitted this comprising a single twin wheel main member, a small tailwheel, and two small stabilising wheels attached at approximately quarter span, and it was intended that the glider would be towed by standard naval aircraft Two prototypes were built (BuAer Nos. 11647 and 11648), and one hundred production LRA Is (BuAer Nos. 31403 502) were ordered, but none of these had been completed when the U.S. Navy cancelled its glider programme. The LRA 2 was a proposed version with a conventional undercarriage.
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