Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects

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Unbuilt and cancelled aviation projects since 1945. Designs that never made it into production.
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"Just how big is it anyway?"
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Republic 1965 Mach 12 hypersonic recon project and demonstrator
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OS-111 & XVA(H1) Navy Heavy Bomber projects (alternatives to Skywarrior)
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Joint Japanese-US LIFT Program
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Republic VTOL/VSTOL/STOL projects
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How the B-52 emerged (Boeing and contending designs to the B-52)
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Grumman E-2 Hawkeye Concepts and Projects
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Gyrodyne Helicopter Projects
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Grumman G-164 "Ag-Cat" as "Anti-Insect Weapon System" (1959)
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Ryan Model 59 'Primary Phase Jet Trainer' (1952)
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USAF Weapon System 302A Tactical Bomber Competition
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Multiple-Purpose Subsonic Naval Aircraft (MPSNA) studies (1986)
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Myasishchev M-18 / M-20 strategic bomber
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Armstrong Whitworth AW.171 Super Sonic VTOL Flying Wing Project
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Vought (LTV) V-530 and V-534 (US Navy "Type A" proposals)
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Mirage F2 and F3
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Hughes VHLH very-heavy-lift helicopter
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Lockheed CL-1700 (AAH contender)
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Boeing Vertol/Grumman BV-222 tilt-rotor projects
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SNCASO (Sud-Ouest) SO.7100 "Dogue" ground attack/COIN aircraft project
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SNCASO (Sud-Ouest) SO.30 derivative versions
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Guangdong Changsheng China Star airliner
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Mil' Mi-38 (Mi-382 and Mi-383 PDTV)
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US Army Aggressor Helicopter Conversions And Proposals
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Fan-Wing aircraft
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Rockwell pre-ATF and ATF studies
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Cruise Missile Carrier Airliner conversions
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1970s Boeing Advanced Bomber Studies
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Avro 720 and derivatives
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Type Spec 149: alternatives to the Grumman A-6
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Firestone XR-9
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Vickers Type 559 (F155T) fighter
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Various Boeing tilt-wing VTOL designs
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Messerschmitt Postwar Projects
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Fairey Tactical Strike Aircraft GOR.339 Project 75
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Rotor-Craft Corp. projects
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Dassault Mirage IVC
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McDonnell Douglas F101B Voodoo - carrying MIM-23 Hawk Missile
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