The Airspeed AS.9 was a strut-braced interceptor low-wing fighter with an unusual feature for it's time, 1935: retractable landing gear, flaps and controllable pitch propeller.
It was going to be powered by either a 650hp Napier Dagger II 24-cylinder air-cooled H-type (as shown in our drawings) or with a Rolls-Royce Kestrel delivering 700hp of power. It was thought as a low-cost but, nonetheless advanced fighter.
Fuselage was going to be of welded steel-tube with fabric-covered wings. It was going to be armed with two machine guns located at the nose, firing through the propeller, and there were also plans to fit more machine-guns in the wings (probably of higher caliber).
Sources:
1.- http://forum.worldofwarplanes.com/index.php?/topic/31516-spoiler-what-the-british-tech-tree-could-look-like/
2.- Putnam's British Aircraft - Airspeed Aircraft Since 1931
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