Convair XP/F-92 - Development and Prototype

Drawing is from a 1949 NACA Research Memorandum:


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

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Hi!

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

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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.
 
Skyblazer said:
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
 
Steve Pace said:
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).
 
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
 

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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
 
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