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    Potential customers of the LTV A-7 Corsair II (US State Cables)

    LTV interest in clearing A-7 Corsair II for export to Jordan: https://archive.org/details/State-Dept-cable-1975-15657/mode/1up RoK interest in A-7s for a naval air arm (point 3D): https://archive.org/details/State-Dept-cable-1974-95974/page/n1/mode/1up ....but RoK must first take care of...
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    • 1970s cold war hashemite kingdom of jordan ling-temco-vought ltv republic of korea republic of the philippines state department (united states) united states
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
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    Royal Navy with F-8 Crusader instead of F-4 Phantom II

    The arrival of a new book on the F8 Crusader got me thinking of the old chestnut of giving the RN a fighter for Ark, Eagle, Victorious and Hermes I have always felt that if we had done what France did and purchased the F8 we could have kept a carrier force as long as the French did. We could...
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    • air defence alternate history chance vought cold war fighter fleet air arm fleet air defense interceptor great britain jet age ling-temco-vought royal navy short brothers plc united states vought
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    • Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
  3. Bill S

    US Army PATA (Plenum Air Tread Amphibious Vehicle)

    I found these pictures in the Vought Aircraft Historical Foundation archives and had to go online to research PATA to find out what the heck it was. PATA Plenum Air Tread Amphibian It basically has a plenum that provides air to tracks that are a series of low pressure air cells and an airflow...
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    • amphibious vehicle cold war ling-temco-vought ltv u.s. army united states army vought
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    • Forum: Secret Army Projects
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    LTV / Scaled Composites SOFTA (Special Ops Forces Transport Aircraft) proposals

    The Vought Archive at the University of Texas in Dallas contains quite a strange series of entries: This clearly indicates that Scaled Composites conducted a study in 1991 for the rapid prototyping of a SOFTA aircraft. Strange is the way the XC-142 seems to be associated to the same report...
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    • cold war early 1990s ling-temco-vought post-cold war scaled composites special operations united states united states special operations command us air force special operations command
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
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