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Hello everyone! Despite being a prototype fighter, the Northrop 3A was not successful, and I didn't find much material about it. I think it would be interesting to have a topic about it. The Northrop 3A was powered by an air-cooled, supercharged, 1,535.387-cubic-inch displacement (25.160...

Vought took General Dynamics design and offered the V-1600, 1601 and 1602 McDonnel Douglas took Northrops design and transformed the YF-17 to what would become the F-18 and won However in this scenario, lets say one of Vought's design won. At that time Sec Def, Schlesinger was heavily pushing...

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Chance Vought V-173

Here is another model that I made as I was forever chasing an in-house. I made this larger and a bit more detailed than the Vought model shop would have produced.

Good Day All - Some non aircraft/missile drawings from the Vought Archives of a proposed TACV - Track Air Cushion Vehicle. Apparently there as a model similar to this design shown at Transpo '72. An article on the similar (but built) Rohr TACV is at...

Hi All - Mixed in with the Eaglet and Mini-Eaglet drawings was this single seat 4 fan design. Have no idea what this was meant for - nonetheless it is interesting! Enjoy the Day! Mark

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...

A very nice supplement to the Flight Manual with good info, cockpit displays for the radar of the Vought F-8D/E here: http://aviationarchives.blogspot.com/2018/02/vought-f-8de-flight-manual-supplemental.html

This Vought X-100 is from what program?

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...

How about this one.... I received it at the same time that I secured 3 Vought TFX proposals. Supposed to be a Vought concept.

Good Day All - In the Vought Archives I came across a folder with the title "V/STOL Fighter/Attack Concepts (FAVX)" with copies of overhead vuegraphs from a November 1975 presentation. The effort was a direct result of the U.S. Navy's effort in that time frame for a significant V/STOL...

This incomplete metal and wood model is in the Retired Employee's center archives at Vought. Anyone have any ideas?

Just when everyone thought V-2000 was the highest model number ever allocated by Vought, I came across this mention of a Model V-3010 Sealifter, described as an "Extreme STOL Amphibious Transport" studied by Vought Aircraft Industries, Inc. in 2004. Good to hear that Vought's latest incarnation...

Hi, here is the early Vought XF6U-1 Pirate configurations,which led to F6U-1.

2 Engined Bombardment Airplane June 30, 1939 Vought Archives

Greetings All - An interesting find for me in the Vought Archives was the Blitzfighter along with some other small/micro fighter and attack aircraft designs. I'll start off first with a couple of reports and a few drawings out of them and later will pull in some Atlas designs that I found...

Greetings All - With the references to turboprop options at the beginning of the program, these two Vought designs seem to fit best in the TS149 topic. Both specifically reference all weather and the radar on the designs makes me think these designs are for this. As usual, from the Vought...