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PaulMM (Overscan) said:From Curtis Mooney on Facebook Group "The Greatest Planes That Never Were"
My dad, Walter E. Mooney, had a concept for the convair TFX (x44) which featured twin vertical tails and small canard surfaces just ahead of the engine intakes (just like the F-14), and his boss, Ed Heinemann (designer of the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk) killed it saying, "Mooney, I guarantee you one thing; the winning design will *not* have twin tails.
Did Heinemann work at Convair? I hadn't realized that, as I always thought he worked just for Douglas. I guess I'll have to look more into his history.