Bell System 118P: next issue of APR

[Orionblamblam]

I've been looking at a few things to throw into the next APR, to help round out the issue a bit. It's overwhelmingly "Orion." The answer showed up the in mail today: a report from the DoD on the Bell System 118P mach 3+ recon plane from 1956. This is a different configuration from what I've posted before, but it's clearly meant for the same role. The article won't include a lot of blather from me... but there will be drawings. Drawings that are...

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[Orionblamblam]

Slight revision: the report that just came in was a *North American* report, not Bell. The competition grows and the plot thickens.

 

[Orionblamblam]

The artwork reproduction quality sucks, but the drawings are quite good.

 

[Skybolt]

So that way goes the supposed "special relationship" of Lockheed (or better, Kelly Johnson) with CIA...