LTV Sea-Based VTOL Fighter

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Print sold on eBay. No other info. If this airplane was already discussed in another topic, please merge accordingly. Thank you admin.
 

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A good scan of this drawing was posted back in 2007:



http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,783.msg15629.html#msg15629


and also was featured in American Secret Projects: Fighters and Interceptors.


Nothing is known beyond the caption. A similar design with twin tails, also from 1969, was posted by Mark Nankivil:


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The nose-wheel well does double duty ? That's, um, creative...
 
Stargazer2006 said:
XP67_Moonbat said:
Wow! I see hints of the Tomcat in that one.
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Really? ??? :eek:
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look at the rear fuselage and tailsection.
replace the wings with the glove and VG wings, and shorten the forward fuselage..
 
sferrin said:
mithril said:
Stargazer2006 said:
XP67_Moonbat said:
Wow! I see hints of the Tomcat in that one.
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Really? ??? :eek:
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look at the rear fuselage and tailsection.
replace the wings with the glove and VG wings, and shorten the forward fuselage..
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More like a Vigilante.
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...Split the difference, then, as I see elements of both.
 
Nik said:
The nose-wheel well does double duty ? That's, um, creative...
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Triple duty -- there's probably a missile bay in there too... :)
 
circle-5 said:
Nik said:
The nose-wheel well does double duty ? That's, um, creative...
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Triple duty -- there's probably a missile bay in there too... :)
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...And that's not counting the dumb kid hiding in the wheel well trying to illegally enter the country :eek:
 
circle-5 said:
Print sold on eBay. No other info. If this airplane was already discussed in another topic, please merge accordingly. Thank you admin.
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I've been doing a re-watch of Space Force on Netflix and spotted the LTV VTOL fighter painting hanging in the waiting area to General Naird's (Steve Carrell) office.
 

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