Let's start with the Douglas Model 1364 (January, 1956), which was studied at the Douglas plant in Long Beach, California.
The proposal model was made at the manufacturer's in-house model shop (Santa Monica Plant). Shown here when the design was first revealed (B&W photo), and as it survives...
Two General Dynamics designs are now known for this competition. I don't have any details about the requirement. Clearly STOL/ VSTOL, air-to-ground mission.
Larger copies at Codeone website as usual.
http://www.codeonemagazine.com/article.html?item_id=114...
Hi All -
My friend Mike Burke loaned me some of his negatives to scan and these thankfully included some images he had shown me of a model he once owned as a kid of the proposed Martin Model 282 Comanche Night Intruder.
A chance that someone might have additional information on this design...
Screen capture with rare view of YF-22NX (second, PW F-119 equipped prototype) with nose cone removed, towed from hangar after cosmetiс restoration of airframe, damaged by PIO crash in April 1992.
Found via google patent search. Northrop design, seems to be related to early stages of AX.
Patent: D218,856
https://patents.google.com/patent/USD218856S/en
As you all know, in the unbuilt projects research business, squeezing stone sometimes gives intriguing info... Looking last night to the Martin projects list at the end of Narkiewicz/Thompson (publisher) book, I suddenly realized that the XB-68 bomber bore the 302A project number, BUT the...
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In 1957 the USAF put forward a Request for Proposal (RfP) to the aircraft industry for a Tactical Air Command Transport as a replacement for its large and venerable fleet of Fairchild C-82/C-119 Flying Boxcar, and Douglas C-47 Dakota.
This competition would eventually be won by the Lockheed...
Thread to discuss Rockwell pre-ATF and ATF Projects.
Merged with existing Rockwell ATF threads by Overscan
If I knew how to add a pic, I'd attach it, but in a 1981 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology, there was a page of sketches of ATF designs. One that's had me intrigued is a Rockwell...
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Ryan Lift-Fan Advanced Studies
Flying Review Vol.20 No.12
Courtesy of Lark
Model 182 is a transonic close-support fighter developed from XV-5A.
Model 186-C is a supersonic point defence fighter
Model 187-B is a also a supersonic fighter
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