Advanced Phantom Projects

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A Tentative Fleet Plan said:
I know what a TJ60 is, I was under the impression that it was more powerful still than the J93 and J58, which would probably already provide a significant jump in performance over the original J79.
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Spot the (scaled) after the engine? The TJ60D5A2 designation? That means it was a study using a scaled-down TJ60 to fit a Phantom. It was a Mach 3 engine design, so presumably this was intended to improve high speed performance.
 
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overscan (PaulMM) said:
From a huge list of F-4 models in http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/ebooks/McDonnell Model Numbers List.pdf a few interesting ones.


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98CN F-4H/ADC Phantom IIG Advanced Interceptor with AN/ASG-18 - wing and tail area inceased 20%, longer fuselage, two primary GAR-9, one alternate GAR-9, J93-MJ 252F engines. b) a 4 GAR-9 variant. (1960)
98CP Phantom IIF, as above with J58 engines (1960)
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That would be one heck of a fun ride! Not entirely sure how they'd enlarge the engine bays from ~40" to 50" diameter, though...


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Thought that comes to mind about the high wing VG design: that's completely scrapping the existing wing box and most of the lower fuselage. Not sure how much tooling you'd be able to reuse.
 
overscan (PaulMM) said:
From a huge list of F-4 models in http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/ebooks/McDonnell Model Numbers List.pdf a few interesting ones.
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Would this source have happened to mention what the job orders were? Just tracking or did they represent projects that were actually built and tested? Because the parts mentioning the GE-1 engine with the various bypass ratios have job orders, and quite a few more of the F-4 projects don't. Would be incredibly interesting to see the engine core design that evolved into the modern F110 used in a Phantom.
 

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