Early US ATF Projects- references

[aim9xray]

From #41, I don't recognize 28.png - but I do recognize the style of the painting - that is highly likely to have come from Grumman.

 

[hesham]

From this report.

 

[BAROBA]

Hi,


unknown wind tunnel Models for ATF aircraft,can anyone ID them ?.

Does anyone know what ATF-1 is? The A-12 like plane with winglets basically...

 

[CiTrus90]

Hi,


unknown wind tunnel Models for ATF aircraft,can anyone ID them ?.

Does anyone know what ATF-1 is? The A-12 like plane with winglets basically...

It should be an iteration of Concept 1 shown in the middle here, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[BAROBA]

Thanks Luca,
Most helpful

 

[hesham]

From, Popular Science 1986/10.

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[hesham]

From this report.

 

[Dew]

Same model as 2nd/3rd pic captioned as 'Westinghouse Advanced Tactical Fighter Concept'

..and again at NARA:
"A model of a stealth fighter aircraft on display in the Las Vegas Convention Center during the Air Force Association's "Gathering of Eagles," a convention commemorating spectacular achievements in the free world's aerospace development"

 

[Dew]

I've a feeling these are already on here somewhere but couldn't immediately find them. Mods please delete/move as applicable:
from:

From Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) to F-22 Part I To Milestone 0 and Beyond: 1970-1982
Dr. Paul C. Ferguson, Office of History Aeronautical Systems Center Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

 

[blackkite]

Hi!

Raiders of the Lost Archives

Are today’s engineers and researchers missing a trick by not visiting the dusty paper archives of old? Aviation historian Dr MICHAEL PRYCE thinks so.

www.aerosociety.com

"One fascinating outcome of Concorde was a similar project started as a detour, Britain’s own Firefox fighter. The 1981 British Aerospace Stiletto looked fabulous. The team who designed it were not the fighter designers at Kingston or Warton but the airliner designers of Concorde at Bristol. They had not built a fighter since their piston-engined WW2 bruiser, the Beaufighter, and, as with all good side-quests, the Stiletto was a long shot. It was not meant for the RAF, rather the USAF’s emerging Advanced Tactical Fighter competition, that ultimately led to the F-22 Raptor. At the time, stealth and speed were being traded off and the designers from Filton went hard over on speed and range for their supersonic cruise fighter. They wanted to outrun surface-to-air missiles, not hide from them. Boomless flight would hardly matter in any WW3 scenario but the really striking thing was the use of airliner aerodynamics to create a new type of fighter. It was an idea that went well beyond the wind tunnel data, a real imaginative leap."

 

[hesham]

From this report