north american aviation

...On the Big Gemini threads, on the family tree for the Gemini program and its proposed offshoots, the "Lucy" of the tree is a drawing of what spawned into Gemini, the "Mercury Mark II". Anyone got any diagrams or sketches of what got this particular ball rolling? How much of a simple...

Greetings All, As promised in my earlier post on the commercialized Martin Mars in the Early Aircraft Projects subforum, here is information on the second issue of the American Aerospace Archive covering the navalized derivative of the F-107A, the North American FJ-5: [left] The NAA FJ-5...

hell yeah, another Cool edition of eAPR is coming ;D already eAPR V2N1 had fantastic in deep look on Project Pluto ! V2N2 will have the North American 1947 study of a Nuclear Ramjet http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=1218 This 1947 Ramjet is a unique design of chemical-nuclear ICBM Scott can you...

Hi! Any one has the 3-view drawing of this North American Vigilante mock up? This mock up is historically and technically very important because this is mother shape of MIG25,F-15 and FA-18,etc. And please show me the reason why North American chose single vertical tail stabilizer design.

Aside from this single artistic rendering I have not seen any other documentation of this X-15 design concept. Was this merely a single artistic exercise or were there actually design studies, drawings, plans etc... to back it up?

Hi, here is the North American delta-wing X-15 research aircraft project. http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1966/1966%20-%201382.html

I hadn't seen this posted here before and so I thought I'd post it for the benefit of anyone who hadn't seen it before. Volume I Volume II Volume III Volume IV Not having the benefit of an education in aerospace, what is the meaning of the V Limit Design and V Max Design lines on the first...

Hi folks, A new thread for and unknown, secret or rare North American P-51 Mustang variants. I'll start off by including what may have been the ultimate Mustang: This was supposedly a proposal that North American had come up with in case the war had continued. As you can see, it had...

Technical Report I found. http://naca.central.cranfield.ac.uk/reports/1958/naca-rm-a57k20.pdf

The AP-76 was one of the neatest-looking of the X-15 contenders... and also the poorest performer of the bunch. Looks ain't everything. BLATANT COMMERCIALISM WARNING.... Along with the AP-76, I just added a slew of new items. The AP-76 report is a prime example of how a design *should* be...

Available here: http://www.up-ship.com/drawndoc/drawndocair.htm This includes a very large drawings of the missile and booster meant specifically for model makers; Standard Aircraft/Missile Characteristics of two early variants; rare drawings of the 1949 over/under ramjet version; a few other...

If someone happy to have hi-res version of these North American Rockwell PR drawings (NA-73-400, Rev 9-83), I would be very obliged for sharing them with me. Thank you.

This display model was shown in aero August 1964. It's not really labelled but a short description is given on a Super Sabre with RR Spey engines. Such a proposed version is mentioned in The American Fighter by Angelucci & Bowers as F-100S. So I want to ask if it's the F-100S in the picture.

Hello all I am looking for information, drawings (including 3-views) and specifications for North American Aviation’s ‘Retaliator’ and the NR-349 Interceptor proposals. These were based on the A-5 Vigilante carrier-based strike-bomber Regards Pioneer

From Tony Buttler.

As we know: Fokker Atlantic----General Aviation------North American Aviation.... General Aviation(ex-Fokker) GA-15-----NA-15 General Aviation(ex-Fokker) GA-16-----NA-16 NA-15---------XO-47,observation aircraft NA-16---------trainer aircraft NA-17--------- ...

Hello gents I am looking to find some information on possibly one of the most advanced and powerful strike aircraft designed for its time, and yet possibly one of the least known and un-utilised designs in military aviation history – The design I am speaking of is the North American A3J (A-5)...

Hi friends. I know, that: Initial attempts to produce jet-powered fighters with the endurance of piston-engined aircraft (e. g. the Bell XP-83 and the Convair XP-81) were disappointing, and in early 1946, the USAAF informally requested proposals for a "penetration fighter" with a combat...

" F-111A"----------------------------------------------------"F-111B" 1) Boeing Model 818-----------------------------------------------------Model 818N 2) General Dynamics/Convair-Grumman: GD/C Model ?--------Grumman Model 310------F-111A/B 3) Lockheed Model...

AMSA was said to stand for "America's Most Studied Aircraft" due to the length of time it took to get to flying hardware. Flying Review International, July 1970 I'm sure I've seen a Lockheed AMSA design, and Doug Richardson's B-1 book has 3 AMSA designs that may be the Rockwell evolution, but...