Flight Dynamics Lab V/STOL designs

[hesham]

Hi,


here is three different V/STOL attack aircraft from Flight Dynamics Lab.


http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a017782.pdf


[NOTE: Images removed and replaced with better quality versions further below]

 

[Tophe]

Thanks, mostly for the weird twin-boom layout.
The linked document date is June 1975.
I wonder why there is a so long duct in front of the jet, maybe the full text does explain but I have not seen the reason in the first pages.

 

[hesham]

And here is a V/STOL fighter with thrust augmenting ejectors.


http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/p000513.pdf

 

[Stargazer2006]

From THRUST AUGMENTING EJECTORS (ARL, June 1975):