Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects

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Unbuilt and cancelled aviation projects since 1945. Designs that never made it into production.
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McDonnell Douglas F101B Voodoo - carrying MIM-23 Hawk Missile
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3 new Mikoyan combat aircraft models shown at MAKS 2021
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Various Ekranoplane and WIG projects
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Saab B3LA trainer/light strike aircraft
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Bell 360 Invictus (FARA program)
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Hawker Siddeley P.1154
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Soviet MFI/I-90 designs
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Grumman G-674 "Nutcracker" folding-fuselage VTOL fighter concept
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International Fighter Aircraft Competition (rivals to the F-5E)
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The Hawker P.1052, P.1072 and P.1081.
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Martin P6M Seamaster
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Saunders Roe P.177 / SR.177
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YF-17 ADEN vectored nozzle demonstrator with canards
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Early F-101 Voodoo designs - mockups and models
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Various Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG) Projects
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Studies before the Tornado: NKF, AFVG, UKVG
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Rockwell Propulsive Wing/Canard STOL fighter (report NA-86-0015)
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Martin Model 282 Comanche
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Bellanca Prototypes & Projects
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Kharkov (Kharkiv) Aviation Institute (KhAI) aircraft and projects
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Aerodis America/CRSS Orion, Rigel and Theta Projects
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RAF Boeing Washington B.1 (B-29) with Grand Slam bombs
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AW EH-101 Merlin, Development, Variants and Projects
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Shaanxi Aircraft (AVIC) Y-30 airlifter
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Hawker Hunter Precursor and Follow-on Projects
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SAAB Fighter / Attack projects
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AMSA Program & B-1 Bomber projects
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Sukhoi Su-25 Projects
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Argentinian Unbuilt Projects
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Blackburn Buccaneer developments
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The Hawker P.1062, P.1068 and P.1067.
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Tupolev OKB SST II studies (Tu-244 family)
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Soviet/Russian UAV and UCAV projects
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SAAB 210 "Draken" ("Lill Draken") demonstrator
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Eurasia / Mukhamedov Integral-2010 & Vityaz-2000 (AKA "MiG I-2000")
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Bartini Postwar Projects
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Various UAV and UCAV Designs from Europe
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Hindustan HF-73
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NOR-74-101 ''YF-17 Pilots manual and checklist''
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Small tandem rotor helicopters.
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Mirage 4000
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Hawker Siddeley models from Manchester museum
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"Lockheed" Penetrating High Altitude Endurance (PHAE)
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Tupolev Tu-14 Origins and Derivatives
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Del Mar helicopters
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Saro P.163
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Mirage 3000
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Antonov Projects
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Light Aircraft Prototypes & Projects from Finland
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Mignet HM-330 "Sakura" (Tachikawa R-HM)
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Ryan Liftfan VTOL designs & the XV-5
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Lippisch Post War Projects
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BAC TSR2
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VSX / TS-160: Alternatives to the S-3 Viking
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LTV/Vought V-505 and V-507 Navy fighters to VFX requirement
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Vought (LTV) A-7 Corsair II Projects
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Vought V-1000 International Fighter Aircraft
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Boeing Fighter Studies, 1970s to ATF
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Boeing Fighter
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North American Rockwell NA-335 fighter project (to USAF FX requirement)
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F-104 Starfighter Projects
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Fairchild M-232 STOL
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Big Wing Jaguar
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Frye Corporation aircraft projects
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Fairchild M-225
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Bell Model 204 / XH-40 / UH-1 Iroquois competitors, projects and modifications
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Vickers VC-7 and V-1000
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Avro 707
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Dassault MIrage III V/STOL Derivatives (Balzac, IIIV)
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Advanced Harrier Projects
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Interesting escape concepts.
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XV-1,XV-2,XV-3 competition
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AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo Projects & Derivatives
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British Light Aircraft Projects
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Lockheed A-12 and SR-71 projects
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US Bombers
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Vought V-451 "Guerrilla" STOL
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Dassault Mirage G8A / ACF / Super Mirage
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Swiss Little Known Helicopters,Light Aircraft and Projects
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BAE P.103 armament
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Spanish/Egyptian HA-300 supersonic fighter project
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All those weird and wonderful postwar U.S. one-offs...
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Early jet-transport project: Fairchild M-186
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North American F-108 Rapier
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