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

[martinbayer]

I for one am glad it was tried in an actual X-vehicle - that's how you learn, and that's what X-vehicles are really all about.

 

[hesham]

My dear PaulMM,

after your permission,can we transfer this topic to Postwar section,it was only a prototype.

 

[robunos]

Sure. It is just surprising to me that they wouldn't build just one wing and blow a jet though it,
--BEFORE building the whole freaking airplane at max cost.

Risk reduction in project management, all the things we learn in school...

They did . . .
The image is HERE :-

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/data/attachments/81/81103-eabcdb1dd770c318a59fd7ac3cf37d56.jpg

cheers,
Robin.

 

[Archibald]

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.

 

[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
View attachment 710053
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.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

North American Rockwell article on the propulsion system.

Compound Ejector Thrust Augmenter Development
L W Throndson

https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/GT/proceedings-pdf/GT1973/79801/V001T01A067/2390872/v001t01a067-73-gt-67.pdf

 

[Motocar]

El dibujo en corte Rockwell XFV-12
(Rockwell XFV-12 cutaway)

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/attachments/copia-3-de-cutaway-rockwell-fv-12a-vtol-jpg.611484/

 

[hesham]

Hi,

Rockwell XFV-12

ww2aircraft.net

 

[hesham]

Also,

Rockwell XFV-12

aviationweek.

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