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 construction by amateurs.Plane and Pilot: 1978 Aircraft Directory, page 147. Werner & Werner Corp, Santa Monica CA, 1977.

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.

Operational history By October 2013, three examples had been registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration including the sole Miller-Bohannon JM-2 Pushy Galore. None of the aircraft remain registered.

One of the two stock JM-2s built was destroyed while racing in the Reno Air Races at Reno, Nevada on 15 September 1989, when it flew through a dust devil and broke up in flight, killing the pilot.

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External links Photo of the stock JM-2 that later crashed at Reno