Flight Dynamics Lab V/STOL & Aircraft Designs

[hesham]

Hi,
here is three different V/STOL attack aircraft from Flight Dynamics Lab.

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[NOTE: Images removed and replaced with better quality versions further below]

 

[Tophe]

Thanks, mostly for the weird twin-boom layout.
The linked document date is June 1975.
I wonder why there is a so long duct in front of the jet, maybe the full text does explain but I have not seen the reason in the first pages.

 

[hesham]

And here is a V/STOL fighter with thrust augmenting ejectors.

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[Stargazer]

From THRUST AUGMENTING EJECTORS (ARL, June 1975):
archived copy

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[hesham]

From this magazine of 1978,

a very strange Fighter ?.