A new series, this one covering the somewhat disparate topics of "research aircraft" and "reconnaissance aircraft." Why those two together?
1: Why not, that's why.
2: It's useful alliteration.
3: Because either topic on its own has a pretty lean selection of projects to choose from compared to the likes of Bombers, Transports or Fighters.
4: Because.
And so, USRP #01 has just been published:
http://www.aerospaceprojectsrelview.com/blog/?p=2956
General Dynamics “FISH”: 1958 concept for Mach 4 parasite
NACA-Langley X-Tail X-15: early hypersonic rocket plane concept
“Jake’s Jeep”: WWII-era motorjet design
Lockheed “Archangel”: The first step on the road to the SR-71
Boeing Model 853-21 “Quiet Bird”: A 1961 stealth platform
Northrop Tacit Blue: Operational version of the early stealth experiment
Convair Pilotless Airplane I-40 Inhabited: WWII-era design of a manned test for a flying bomb
Lockheed CL-278-1-1: a proto-U-2
1: Why not, that's why.
2: It's useful alliteration.
3: Because either topic on its own has a pretty lean selection of projects to choose from compared to the likes of Bombers, Transports or Fighters.
4: Because.
And so, USRP #01 has just been published:
http://www.aerospaceprojectsrelview.com/blog/?p=2956
General Dynamics “FISH”: 1958 concept for Mach 4 parasite
NACA-Langley X-Tail X-15: early hypersonic rocket plane concept
“Jake’s Jeep”: WWII-era motorjet design
Lockheed “Archangel”: The first step on the road to the SR-71
Boeing Model 853-21 “Quiet Bird”: A 1961 stealth platform
Northrop Tacit Blue: Operational version of the early stealth experiment
Convair Pilotless Airplane I-40 Inhabited: WWII-era design of a manned test for a flying bomb
Lockheed CL-278-1-1: a proto-U-2
