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McColm
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Hi Guys,
Has anyone built this in plastic or resin form?
Has anyone built this in plastic or resin form?
Well, not necessarily. Think of the Lockheed Polecat, for instance.Lampshade111 said:As far as a name goes, I like that Shadowcat suggestion, but Grumman would have to be involved.
No, WAS! The YF-110A carried the name SPECTRE officially before the designation was changed to YF-4A and the name became PHANTOM II.Lampshade111 said:Perhaps Spectre, which if I am not mistaken was going to be the name of the USAF Phantom II?
Stargazer2006 said:This was done with the aim of harmonizing aircraft types across the different services.
Gorgeous!
This one I've always wanted to do but I'm trying to decide what to do with it. I'm thinking of montage print of this aircraft design in different squadron markings/operators. I will have a preview of such a montage print of this plane at my table at Scalefest on May 31.
This is the Lockheed/Boeing A/FX. Back in the 1980s the Navy was looking for a replacement for the F-14 Tomcat and that was the NATF- Naval Advanced Tactical Fighter, which was basically a YF-22 with swing wings. When the A-12 Avenger got cancelled in 1991, the Navy decided that the NATF made a better basis for stealthy strike aircraft and reshifted the program into the A-X program. About the same time the USAF was looking at an F-111 replacement and the two programs were merged into the A/FX which would have been for a multi-role two seat strike aircraft based on the older NATF/A-X design.
This is best known of the design submissions, from a joint effort by Lockheed and Boeing. The other submission came from a joint effort by Rockwell and Northrop.
About 1993 or the A/FX got cancelled as the budgets were too tight. But the program's engineers and design work became the JAST program (Joint Affordable Strike Fighter) which eventually morphed into the current JSF program.
So in my universe, I have both Intruder VA squadrons and Tomcat VF squadrons getting redesignated VFA units for the A/FX. Both communities would be used to twin crew flight operations. Kinda makes me wonder if this would have been a high end asset on the carrier deck with the F/A-18 being the low end asset.
I had done these last year but never got around to posting them. Got more of 'em coming as time allows.......
The forum search engine can help youNever seen any of the A/FX aircraft, where have you found drawings or other pictures of them?