fighters

Hi, here is some V/STOL and VATOL aircraft concepts, designed at the David W. Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center. NSRDC-79/O74 P PREDICTION OF DRAG COEFFICIENTS OF A SUPERSONIC V/STOL CONFIGURATION WITH VARIOUS STORE ARRANGEMENTS* Tsze C. Tai , Thomas H. Boyd , and Richard E...

General topic on VFA Requirement: VFA - V/STOL Fighters for Sea Control Ships (XFV-12 rivals) [link] Winning Design: Rockwell NR-356 / XFV-12A. [link] Other designs proposed for VFA: Convair (General Dynamics) Model 200. [link] Grumman G-607. [link] Vought (LTV) V-517 and V-520. [link]...

Aeromarine Plane & Motor Co., and principal of Aeromarine Airways, developed training aircraft for the US Navy during WWI. After the war they attempted to capitalize on a number of Curtiss HS-2L and F-5L surplus seaplanes by converting them into civilian 'aerial yachts' for their airline...

Hi, Looking for information on the LTV V-517 V/STOL fighter proposed for the Sea Control Ship.

Impact of agility requirements on configuration synthesis Author(s): Oneil, Patrick J.; Nyberg, Gregory; Deturk, Robin; Seal, Daniel W.; Grethlein, Christian E. Abstract: A configuration design study was performed by McDonnell Douglas Aerospace (MDA) for the NASA Langley Research Center...

...According to comments from someone on another forum, the Jap Zero's main weakness was that its fuel tanks were not "self-sealing", and that once hit they leaked profusely. Was this actually the case, and can anyone provide info on just exactly how the self-sealing tanks on Allied planes...

Hello folks, Pardon me if this is old news, but there's an interesting article on Noel Pemberton-Billing’s 'slip-wing' composite nightfighter and bomber designs at: http://airminded.org/2007/04/18/a-sister-to-assist-er/ For an artist's impression of a P-B carrier-plus-parasite-bomber design...

Airspeed AS.31 aka Airspeed F.35/35. Does anybody know more about it?

"Clearly, ATF was going to be superstealth and not a cousin of YF-12 or SR-71," explains Osborne. "I stopped the YF-12 derivative effort, and we started working on an F-117 derivative for ATF." The design submitted in the Lockheed proposal looked like a larger and elongated F-117 with some...

1978 VATOL study via flateric

Who could post a picture of the 1957 Heinkel He 012 ( or 021 ? ) fighter project ? Thanks a lot for the help ! Richard

The Mirage III was the winner of a competition for a multirole, mach 2 fighter. Its only two competitors were the rocket-powered Trident II, and the Durandal which was quite similar to the Mirage, with a frontal air intake. The Trident was eliminated as too specialised, and the Durandal because...

Hallo, we know most of this company's aircraft ,such as: MBR-2,MBR-4,MBR-7,MDR-5,MP-1,KOR-1,KOR-2,KOR-3,KOR-4,KOR-9,MS-4,MS-5, MS-7,MS-8,IL-143,R-1,B-10,VVA14,14M1P,M-62,A-50,A-60, Be-2,4,6,8,10,12,14,30,32,40,42,44,103,132,200,976 and 2500. But there are anther aircraft and projects:- C-13...

Hesham, please try to limit yourself to one program per thread ;) The Gnat replacement trainer requirement was AST 362. HS1173, P45 and Fo-147 are well documented in Project Cancelled and British Secret Projects: Jet Bombers. I don't have anything about Hunting H-155. AST 362 was filled by the...

From French aerospace mag Air&Cosmos July 1994. I made this drawing based on the magazine article. Can anybody post the original pic and additional information on Dassault post-Rafale studies in the 90's?