Greatly inspired by the "Longer B-58 Hustler service?" thread by @Rule of cool
How could the B-47 have had a more impactful service life?
Improved engines and aerodynamics?
Exports to friendly nations?
As a total What-if thought, I would consider a four-engine B-47 evolution as seen with...
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The General Dynamics F-111 was a swing-wing tactical fighter, interdictor, nuclear bomber and electronic warfare aircraft developed in the early 1960s in the belief that requirements...
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Thanks to Air21 over at What If Modelers:
Thought this design was already mentioned in an existing SPF thread, but I couldn't locate it. I'm wondering if this design originally grew out of one of the 'Model 402' studies. Also, I wonder if there was a late 1970s semi-official USAF requirement...
Let's start with the Douglas Model 1364 (January, 1956), which was studied at the Douglas plant in Long Beach, California.
The proposal model was made at the manufacturer's in-house model shop (Santa Monica Plant). Shown here when the design was first revealed (B&W photo), and as it survives...
Does this mean that the A-10 Thunderbolt II has been saved from the budget cutting block?
"Northrop Grumman Awarded U.S. Air Force A-10 TLPS Task Orders"
Published November 19, 2013 | By Marcel van Leeuwen
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Hi,
I found this strange drawing to F 102,may be,they meant Convair F-102,
but please look to its air intakes !,I think this a French imagine to F-102
before it appeared...
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I was scrolling through yf-23.net when I saw this page.
http://www.yf-23.net/ATFprogramme.html
I was looking at the performance requirements given by the ATF Statement of Operational Need, and I noticed this.
the ability to accelerate from Mach 0.6 to Mach 1 in 20 seconds
the ability to...
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Two General Dynamics designs are now known for this competition. I don't have any details about the requirement. Clearly STOL/ VSTOL, air-to-ground mission.
Larger copies at Codeone website as usual.
http://www.codeonemagazine.com/article.html?item_id=114...
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Hi All -
My friend Mike Burke loaned me some of his negatives to scan and these thankfully included some images he had shown me of a model he once owned as a kid of the proposed Martin Model 282 Comanche Night Intruder.
A chance that someone might have additional information on this design...
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Screen capture with rare view of YF-22NX (second, PW F-119 equipped prototype) with nose cone removed, towed from hangar after cosmetiс restoration of airframe, damaged by PIO crash in April 1992.
"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...
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The F-16 has its origins in General Dynamics studies for the FX program.
An RFP was issued in December 1965 for a Tactical Support Aircraft, specifying dual air-to-air and air-to-ground roles. The Air Force was thinking of a 60,000lb VG aircraft at this time. Grumman submitted a variable...
Found via google patent search. Northrop design, seems to be related to early stages of AX.
Patent: D218,856
https://patents.google.com/patent/USD218856S/en
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