Convair XP-92 / XF-92 - Projects and Development

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Convair XF-92, made by the Consolidated model shop at Lindbergh Field, San Diego. This model belonged to XF-92 design engineer Thomas Melvin Hemphill.

 

[sienar]

variant of the early version tested at naca


EDIT: I think I have posted this elsewhere but might as well post it here. Supposedly a 1944 convair wind tunnel model.


source of the photo; http://archivesite.jetex.org/scripts/yabb2/nph-YaBB.pl?num=1258848483;start=all

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Drawing is from a 1949 NACA Research Memorandum:

http://naca.central.cranfield.ac.uk/reports/1949/naca-rm-a9b16.pdf

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

And photo is from here:


http://www.456fis.org/F-92-X.htm

 

[Skyraider3D]

The XF-92 also pops by regularly at my "Filmstar Aircraft" Facebook group.

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[sienar]

Very interesting first configuration with the v tail. Was dropped due to the wing stalling at just 5° aoa.

From "Killer Rays: Story of the Douglas F4D Skyray and F5D Skylancer" by Mark Frankel,

 

[blackkite]

Hi!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0FTCMBrq6c

 

[Vladimir]

Hi to all

 

[Stargazer]

The last picture is interesting and a first for me: an F-92 with dual lateral intakes instead of a single nose intake? I'd like to know more about this.

 

[Steve Pace]

The last picture is interesting and a first for me: an F-92 with dual lateral intakes instead of a single nose intake? I'd like to know more about this.

The last picture you mention, I feel, shows the XF-92A and the upcoming YF-102 (pre-YF-102 if you will). -SP

 

[Stargazer]

The last picture you mention, I feel, shows the XF-92A and the upcoming YF-102 (pre-YF-102 if you will). -SP

Except this particular image is clearly an XF-92 that has been doctored, not one of the YF-102 images.
The air intakes do not look at all like the ones that were actually built (you can see they blend in a lot more with the fuselage here). The cockpit is a little different, and the jet exhaust reaches far behind, unchanged from the XF-92 photo (whereas the YF-102 had a shorter rear with modified, not tubular, shape).

 

[sienar]

Hi to all

Do you know the source of that second image?

 

[XP67_Moonbat]

The last XF-92 image with funky side intakes is in Scott's XF-92 article (http://aerospaceprojectsreview.com/ev3n1.htm). I'm looking right at it.

Scott credits the photo to the SDAM via Mark Nankivil

 

[Steve Pace]

I played with it a bit. -SP

 

[Orionblamblam]

The XP-92 is featured in US Fighter Projects #3:
http://www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/?p=3580

Color art by Rob Parthoens.

 

[Vahe Demirjian]

MX-813 was the Wright Field/AMC designation for the Convair XP-92/XF-92 delta-wing fighter/tech demonstrator (http://www.designation-systems.net/usmilav/mx/500-999.html).

 

[hesham]

Hi,

Wind-tunnel investigation of a tailless triangular-wing fighter aircraft at Mach numbers from 0.5 to 1.5

Report presenting a wind-tunnel investigation to determine the respective variations with Mach number of the static longitudinal stability, the drag, and the effectiveness of a constant-chord control surface for a tailless fighter aircraft with a triangular wing of aspect ratio 2.31.

digital.library.unt.edu

 

[Boxman]

Recently posted to Flickr by the San Diego Air & Space Museum (SDASM) Archives, an XP-92 desk model.

https://flic.kr/p/2j5U2PZ

 

[IA-63]

Thank you vey much for all the wonderful information regaring the early prototype of the XF-92 based on the work started by Alexander Lippisch into delta wing aircraft

 

[blackkite]

This is a photograph of the XF-92A on display at an open house at Bees Air Force Base, New Hampshire, in May 1955. The design closely follows the delta wing theory of Dr. Alexander M. Lippish, so the style is very similar to the delta wing experimental glider MD-1 created during World War II. The large vertical stabilizer is located relatively forward. The unusually long tailpipe is due to the installation of afterburner on the J33 engine.

Source : FAMOUS AIRCRAFT OF THE WORLD CONVAIR F-102 DELTA DAGGER

 

[Orionblamblam]

The design closely follows the delta wing theory of Dr. Alexander M. Lippish,

*SORT* *OF.* Yes, the planform & side views are very similar, but the airfoil sections are *very* different. Lippisch favored *fat* airfoils that would not have let this thing go transonic. The XP-92 and subsequent delta winged aircraft had *thin* wings with relatively sharp leading edges. These are not minor feature differences.

 

[blackkite]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0FTCMBrq6c

 

[blackkite]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVjaiMXvCTQ

 

[blackkite]

Hi!
Source : FAMOUS AIRCRAFT OF THE WORLD CONVAIR F-102 DELTA DAGGER.

The Convair XF-92A

 

[blackkite]

Hi!

Convair XF-92A

The XF-92A was the world's first jet aircraft to fly with the radical delta-wing configuration pioneered by Germany's Dr. Alexander Lippisch. Convair used the knowledge learned from the XF-92 to

www.nationalmuseum.af.mil

 

[Sabrejet]

This is a photograph of the XF-92A on display at an open house at Bees Air Force Base, New Hampshire, in May 1955.

I suspect it's Pease, rather than 'bees', though prior to 1957 it was plain old 'Portsmouth AFB'.

 

[Justo Miranda]

240528-F-10108-041.jpg is Douglas X-3 Stiletto

 

[Dew]

"P-92" from GRC via NARA:

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

"P-92" from GRC via NARA:

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Oh very nice. Crazy design though.

 

[Dew]

Oh very nice. Crazy design though.

I think it's the aftermath of a heavy session/fever dream with Robert Woods, Don L. Brown, René Leduc & Alexander Lippisch

 

[TsrJoe]

Thread 'Convair XP-92 / XF-92 - Development and Prototype' https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/convair-xp-92-xf-92-development-and-prototype.3407/

 

[Halcyon66]

Definitely Leduc 022 vibes.

Regards,

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[Dew]

Thread 'Convair XP-92 / XF-92 - Development and Prototype' https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/convair-xp-92-xf-92-development-and-prototype.3407/

I'd missed that one - mod's please move my post to the above thread?

 

[bercr]

Convair XF-92 period color photos from SDASM Archives Flickr account:

 

[Scott Kenny]

Seems Convair was smoking the same stuff LeDuc was...

 

[Dew]

https://flic.kr/p/2r66WE8

 

[Archibald]

Seems Convair was smoking the same stuff LeDuc was...

And Miles with the M-52 ? Common, there were good reasons barrel-fuselage were considered in the late 1940's for high speed X planes.

 

[dannydale]

And Miles with the M-52 ? Common, there were good reasons barrel-fuselage were considered in the late 1940's for high speed X planes.

Wasn't this right before area rule was discovered to be a good idea?

Also, that's a lot of rose tinting on the pictures.

 

[Arjen]

Fiddled with white-balance in GIMP:

 

[aim9xray]

"Enlarge. Enhance."