Greetings:
Who would like to tell me how many swing-wing vertions of F-4 PhantomII has existed? Would you please take trouble to show me those drawing?
Thanks in advance
Pometablava...
Joe Baugher's website has a whole paragraph on the subject.
From the website
http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/f4_1.html
The design of what was eventually to emerge as the McDonnell F-4 Phantom began in August of 1953. The McDonnell design team was headed by Herman Barkley...
Hi everybody,
During the 1987/1988 McDonnell-Douglas tried to make a deal with Airbus to develope
MD-330 airliner,which was based on a stretch MD-11 airframe with Airbus A300 wing to
compete Boeing-747,but the McDonnell later developed the design MD-12,anther series
of little known airliner...
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cold war
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united states air force
war on terror
According to Vaclav Němeček in his book “Civilní letadla 2” the drawing gives an impression of a DC-10 variant, but he didn’t mention a D-… number. Is anyone able to supplement the designation?
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united states air force
DARPA Opts To End Boeing-Led X-50A Dragonfly UAV Effort
By Jefferson Morris/Aerospace Daily & Defense Report
09/11/2006 09:35:13 AM
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has opted to end the X-50A Dragonfly unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program, which was attempting to pioneer a...
1990s
2000s
boeing
defense advanced research projects agency
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nasa
phantom works
post-cold war
united states
united states army
united states navy
unmanned aerial vehicle
war on terror
in this competition, the main contenders were:-
1-Boeing model -----?
2-Northamerican-Rockwell NR-349
3-Vought V-483.
4-lockheed CL- -----?
5-Grumman G-300.
6-General Dynamics model -----?
7-Fairchild-Hiller (Republic division) model ----?
8-McDonnell-Douglas F-15 model ----?
can anyone...
air superiority
air-to-ground
department of defense
f-15
f-x
f-x program (usaf)
fairchild republic
general dynamics
grumman
hughes aircraft company
interceptors
late 1960s
lockheed
mcdonnelldouglas
nasa
north american rockwell
northrop
tactical air command
united states air force
The original FS-X design seems to owe a lot to the Hornet 2000 proposal, doesn't it? Particularly that fourth image- aside from the wedge intakes and shorter nose, I might have thought that was the Hornet 2000 proposal......
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fuji heavy industries
general dynamics
japan
japan air self-defense force
japan defense agency
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kawasaki heavy industries
mcdonnelldouglas
mitsubishi heavy industries
trdi
aeronautical systems division
atf
ats
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mcdonnelldouglas
tactical air command
united states
united states air force
united states navy
wright air development center
Back in the day when they were coming up with the configuration for the next generation Hornet which ultimately lead to the Super Hornet there was a study done which had several different basic configurations in mind. Some of these drawings made it into AvWeek. One of the designs had the...
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/improvingflight/bwb_main.html - several streaming QuickTime videos of LARC WT tests
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/improvingflight/x48b.html - several hi-res photos...
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united states air force
war on terror
In the 90's exoatmosferic hypersonic airliners seemed near to enter production. 15 years before nobody talks about it. All that technology has been vanished after the NASP demonstrator program was cancelled?
1980s
cold war
department of defense
early 1990s
hypersonic
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nasa
space race
strategic defense initiative
united states
united states air force
usaf
british aerospace plc
cold war
fleet air arm
great britain
hawker siddeley aviation ltd
mcdonnelldouglas
nuclear battlefield
post-cold war
royal air force
royal navy
sea harrier
united kingdom
united states
united states marine corps
united states navy
v/stol
v/stol aircraft
vstol
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[Moderator note - added in some older posts of earlier STOVL designs from Northrop, McDonnell-Douglas from the "US VTOL Projects" topic. I think these are interesting to consider in the light of the combined JAST design]
I want to add the Northrop-Grumman ALF. Pictures from Air&Cosmos Nº1482...
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grumman
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united states marine corps
united states navy
1980s
cold war
mcdonnelldouglas
nasa
nasa ames research center
supersonic
u.s. navy
united states
united states marine corps
united states navy
usmc
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