Rockwell NR-356 Sea Control Ship (SCS) V/STOL fighter (XFV-12A)

[Scott Kenny]

Rockwell was overambitious, they thought they had found the ultimate VTOL system. Plus subscale models worked, but internal losses in the ducts did not scaled in a linear fashion. What worked on models, no longer worked on the full scale plane.

Didn't help that the full scale plane had very rough ducts internally...

 

[Archibald]

Or that Convair 200 would have been a much more logical choice...

 

[hesham]

Hi,

https://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/archive/2008/december/i_history.pdf

 

[sienar]

Some FX like lineage

Source; https://doi.org/10.2514/6.1990-3240

 

[Scott Kenny]

Some FX like lineage
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Source; https://doi.org/10.2514/6.1990-3240

That's a much prettier plane than what they delivered. And it's not like the XFV-12 is unattractive!

 

[hesham]

From this report.

 

[hesham]

From Naval Aviation 1973/9.