840-850 Standard Aircraft Characteristics/Characteristics Sheets

When I get approval to get into the USAF Museum archives, anything on the GAR-X, GAR-9/AIM-47, and AGM-76 is on my list. I can see if they have anything on the AIM-9 and AIM-7 as well.
 
Hi RyanCrierie!

If possible, continue Standard Aircraft Characteristics/Characteristics Sheets,

please
 
Wow! I must say I hadn't seen this topic before. There's a lot of interesting stuff here!

Particularly of interest to me are the following:
- Aviation Planning Directive 16-A-45 (XBT2C-1 and BT2C-1) (alt).pdf
- Aviation Planning Directive 16-A-45 (XBT2C-1 and BT2C-1).pdf
- Aviation Planning Directive 86-A-45 - Designation of XF2R-2 - 5 December 1945.pdf
- BuWeps Notice 8800 - Assignment of Version Numbers for Rockets and Guided Missiles.pdf
- J- ANR - Army and Navy Adopt New Aircraft Naming Policy - 17 January 1944.pdf
- Memo - Model Designation of Naval Aircraft - 3 June 1941.pdf
- Memo on Use of Popular Names for Naval Aircraft - 26 July 1961.pdf
- Memorandum on Naming of Aircraft - 23 November 1953.pdf
- Missile Redesignations.pdf
- NAVAER 00-25Q-13 - SH-3AR - Model Designation of Naval Aircraft - April 1945.pdf
- NAVAIR Notice 13100 - 1 November 1976.pdf
- Navy Press Release - Navy Gives Fighting Names to Planes - 1 October 1941.pdf
- Press Release 2064-62 - Uniform System of Designating Rockets, Guided Missiles Established.pdf
- Uniform Aircraft Classification - 30 October 1947.pdf
- Use of Suffix Letters in Model Designation of Naval Aircraft - May 1955 Monograph.pdf
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I'm particularly intrigued about the approval of XF2R-2, as I wasn't aware of a second Darkshark version.

Is there a place on the web from which we can download them? Thanks!
 
I'm particularly intrigued about the approval of XF2R-2, as I wasn't aware of a second Darkshark version.
Click to expand...

From Naval fighters 28 - 'FR-1 Fireball and XF2R-1 Darkshark', page 61 :-

"Although the XF2R-1 was an impressive aircraft, the added power (of the turboprop) only increased the top speed by about 75mph, due to the weight increase of 1100lbs that came with it. In fact the XFR-4.....proved to be 25mph faster than the XF2R-1 because there was no significant weight increase over the FR-1.
However, the Air Force was initially impressed enough during trials at Muroc to request the construction of the XF2R-2,
which would have combined the TG-100 turboprop with the J34 (as fitted to the XFR-4), offering much greater performance than the XP-81 turboprop they were testing."

cheers,
Robin.
 
How could the Air Force request the construction of a naval variant??? This is beyond me.
 
Stargazer 2006..... sorry, that's all the book says...... :'(

A clarification, it's not clear from my previous post, the FR-1 and XF2R-1 had the GE I-16 (J31) jet engine, of 1600 lbst thrust, whereas in the XFR-4 it was replaced by a Westinghouse J34 of 2000 lbst.
Also, from page 57 of the above mentioned book, "...The XF2R-2 was to have the GE TG-100 turboprop as tested on the XF2R-1 Darkshark, and the J34 with fuselage intakes as tested on the XFR-4."

cheers,
Robin.
 
How could the Air Force request the construction of a naval variant??? This is beyond me.

Easy. The Navy doesn't care if the USAF funds the construction of the naval variant, if they get a chance to evalulate it as well. Who knows? Perhaps it might turn out to be something useful, and in that case, a lot of the development funding will have been done by the USAF. ;D
 
Or it may just have been a slip of the pen that got past the proofing stage. May have meant to write 'Navy', but put 'Air Force' instead.........


cheers,
Robin.
 
Another update.

I've been getting sidetracked by all sorts of things, like working on teh other portions of my website, etc; so here's the latest SACs:

Added 10 October 2009

A-6E Intruder SAC - November 1971
A4D-2 Skyhawk (Tanker) SAC - 7 April 1958
A4D-2 Skyhawk - XASM-N-8 Corvus MSC - 1 July 1957
BD-2 PD - 1 May 1943
CH-46D-UH-46D-HH-46D SAC - August 1985
F4U-4 Corsair ACP - 1 March 1946
FD-1 ACP - 1 March 1946
FJ-1 Fury SAC - 1 May 1949
FM-2 Wildcat ACP - 1 September 1944
GB-1 and GB-2 PD - 1 June 1943
GH-1 PD - July 1942
J4F-2 PD - 1 May 1943
JD-1 Invader ACP - 1 November 1947
JM-1 Marauder ACP - 1 August 1944
JRB-1 and -2 PD - 1 May 1943
JRB-3 PD - July 1942
JRM-1 Mars SAC - 15 August 1948
JRM-2 Mars ACP - 19 August 1944
JRM-2 Mars CS - 15 August 1948
JRM-2 Mars SAC - 1 December 1948
JRM-2 Mars SAC - 15 August 1948
Mk 3 MLF Polaris
MLF Capsule General Arrangements
MLF Study Cover Page
MLF Warship Art (bad Scan)
MLF Warship Plan (bad Scan)
Naval Aviation Confidential Bulletin - January 1949 (Excerpt on XSAM-N-8 Zeus)
Polaris MLF Capsules (bad Scan)
Polaris MLF Launch Capsule Stuff
Polaris MLF Missile Loading Sketch
Random A-6E and EA-6B Factoids
SB2C-1 Helldiver ACP - 1 September 1943
SB2C-1A Helldiver ACP - 1 April 1944 (alt)
SB2C-1A Helldiver ACP - 1 April 1944
SB2C-4 Helldiver ACP - 1 March 1944
SB2C-4 Helldiver ACP - 1 November 1944
SB2C-4 Helldiver GA Drawing - 12-24-43
SB2C-5 Helldiver ACP - 1 November 1944
SB2C-5 Helldiver ACP - 1 October 1946
TA-4F Skyhawk SAC - June 1971
TBF-1C and -1 Avenger ACP - 1 July 1943
UH-1N Huey SAC - August 1974
UH-1N Huey SAC - February 1982
UH-2A Seasprite SAC - 1 July 1967
W2F-1 Hawkeye CS - 15 April 1957
XB-19 Technical Report - 18 July 1942
XF7U-1 Cutlass ACP - 1 February 1947 (Partial)
XF9F-2 ACP - 1 April 1947
XFJ-1 Fury ACP - 1 April 1946
XFJ-1 Fury ACP - 1 January 1947 Reissue (Partial)
XJL-1 ACP - 1 January 1947
XR6O-1 Constitution ACP - 1 January 1947 Reissue
XR6O-1 Constitution ACP - 1 July 1944
XR6O-1 Constitution SAC - 1 April 1949
ZS2G-1 CS - 21 February 1956
 
Trying something new here:

Creating folders with their own link spam for specific aircraft; the F-108 one is here

Link

Since I've moved away from just SACs to all sorts of things, like photos, brochures, correspondence, etc.
 
Latest addition, RIM-8 Talos page. Not much to report here other than a few photos and one news release.

Link

Photographs and single page documents are now in PNG format, long documents are in PDF. This will probably make things easier for you guys, since I know PDF doesn't like to play well. (Adobe's reader is horrid).

I also am toying around with the idea of thumbnails of stuff, to make it easier before you click on something what it is, especially considering the file sizes 4-5 MB are still pretty hefty, for someone who is still on dial up or is only a step above (not all of us can afford superfast internet broadband, just regular broadband).
 
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Slight updates.

AIM-9 Page
AIM-120 Page

I tracked down the original 1 MB to 1.4 MB JPEGs from Defense Imagery.mil for the AMRAAM page; threw in some scans I did at Archives II of the Raytheon/Hughes designs, and presto.
 
The Archival Resources page has been heavily updated.

Link

Now up:

Finding Aid assistant for RG 80-G Box Index - Records of the Dept. of the Navy; General Photographic File (1900 -1958)

The complete Finding Aids for:

RG 342-B Index of Aircraft Photographs (Black and White)
RG 342-B Index of Missile Photographs (Color)
RG-342-B Index of Missile Photographs (Black and White)
 
Hi RyanCrierie!

That's what I found:

Peter B. Kline Papers

MS-165

(Wright State University, Department of Special Collections and Archives)

Subseries 4: U.S. Aircraft Identifications (Mostly Military)

Box 16, File 1-2, Description: USAF Standard Aircraft Characteristics, Date 1953-1965

(www.libraries.wright.edu/special/manuscripts/ms165.pdf)

If you can from this archive to reprint these USAF Standard Aircraft Characteristics from 1953 to 1965
(those that no finite on your site: Alternatewars.com)
 

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