advanced tactical fighter

wanted to render my own take on the Falcon and Viper!

Good morning, Just want to share this book here. I don't know when it is going to be released. ISBN/Box 0942612..., Series Air Force Legend Nr 220, Publisher Ginter, Author Paul Metz, Format a4, No. Pages 50, Version sb, Language English

I was scrolling through yf-23.net when I saw this page. http://www.yf-23.net/ATFprogramme.html I was looking at the performance requirements given by the ATF Statement of Operational Need, and I noticed this. the ability to accelerate from Mach 0.6 to Mach 1 in 20 seconds the ability to...

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...

While going through a January 1982 Lockheed report under contract for NASA, entitled Systems Study of Transport Aircraft Incorporating Advanced Aluminum Alloys - Final Report, I happened on these, two diagrams depicting none other than the Northrop Versatile ATF (with conventional instead of...

This is how it looks like

Hi folks, Does anyone have decent line drawings of the F-22 (preferably not the YF-22) and YF-23 (no choice here) that they could provide? Regards, Greg

"Clearly, ATF was going to be superstealth and not a cousin of YF-12 or SR-71," explains Osborne. "I stopped the YF-12 derivative effort, and we started working on an F-117 derivative for ATF." The design submitted in the Lockheed proposal looked like a larger and elongated F-117 with some...

Interesting stills of scientist looking at what everybody (mostly, Soviet spies) should consider Lockheed ATF from Lockheed promo documentary, showing how far they went into not-showing how their real ATF would look like. Third picture (ATF manufacturing) remembers me Khruchev's phrase of...

Thread to discuss McDonnell Douglas pre-ATF and ATF studies If you have something to share, please post it here.

Thread to discuss Boeing pre-ATF and ATF studies If you have something to share, please post it here.

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...

Northrop pre-ATF and ATF studies. Scren captures are from 'YF-23 Black Widow II Declassified' documentary (c) West Coast Images

First a whole load of concepts from 1979. A "high mach" supersonic cruise optimised fighter Sources: Aviation Week & Space Technology Jan 17 1979 TsAGI Technical Briefing on ATF Program, 1984 Internet Michael J Taylor -Jet Warplanes, The Twenty First Century