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Mark Nankivil said:for those who like the Model 200
It's hard to NOT like the Convair Model 200! Even without mentioning the F-35...
Mark Nankivil said:for those who like the Model 200
hesham said:Hi,
I don't remember where I found this drawing to Convair sea control ship fighter,
it shows its weapon loading.
Sundog said:That's the Flight Simulator model which you can find at Razbam.
When I created the Convair 201 model I made an educated guess and added the wing and centerline pylons to it, because I felt the payload capability would otherwise be ludicrously small.Jemiba said:A more general question: How exact are those FS renderings, especially with regards
to weapons and payloads ? I just ask, because my son is playing a WW II simulation
in the moment and the aircraft are rendered really beautifully, but the choice of
weapons you have for each type often makes me laugh.
The Convair Model 200 was proposed in June 1972 to respond to the US Navy request for designs for a fighter/attack aircraft for the Sea Control ships. The VTOL aircraft would have used a PW401 engine with an afterburning 3BSD plus twin Allison XJ99 lift engines located behind the cockpit for added vertical lift forward of the center of gravity to balance the aft nozzle thrust.
To deal with ground environment generated by the combination of the afterburning rear nozzle and the high temperatures and pressures of the lift engines, ships from which the Sea Control Fighter operated would be equipped with special vertical landing areas with metal grates to allow the hot air flow to pass through.
sferrin said:Makes you wonder how things might have been different if they'd built this in place of the F/A-18A/D & AV-8B.
WhiteDemon said:Hi ,i have images of the airplane and i need more images & info of this project...
Thanks Gentlemans!
WhiteDemon said:Hi ,i have images of the airplane and i need more images & info of this project...
LowObservable said:Actually, the three-bearing nozzle was invented in 1967 for the AVS project, bering first shown on an RB.153-61 mockup.
http://www.aiaa.org/tc/vstol/unbuilt/ewr/index.html