McDonnell Douglas (Boeing) X-36 Tailless UAV

[Sentinel36k]

Just found this thread and went digging, this patent is worth a read, along with a few things I found on a chinese forum. https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US5294055.pdf

 

[Sentinel36k]

Also this is almost an exact match for the shape of the exhaust nozzle and time frame. https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US5092524.pdf

 

[bring_it_on]

Flight Testing the X-36-The Test Pilot's Perspective

Flight Testing the X-36: The Test Pilots Perspective - NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

The X-36 is a 28% scale, remotely piloted research aircraft, designed to demonstrate tailless fighter agility. Powered by a modified Williams International F-112 jet engine, the X-36 uses thrust vectoring and a fly-by-wire control system. Although too small for an onboard pilot, a full-sized...

ntrs.nasa.gov

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

We don't seem to have a dedicated topic for the Boeing X-36. Seems like an omission.



Good 3 views are hard to find.

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[overscan (PaulMM)]

Nice detailed pics here:

Project Habu

The X-36 was a joint venture between McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) and NASA Ames Research Center to test a 28% model of a theoretical 4,000 lb fighter jet. The model was necessary because of the...

projecthabu.com

 

[Stargazer]

Thanks. I always shrug at the mention "Boeing X-36", considering the fact that the aircraft was developed and tested entirely while under McDonnell Douglas. Boeing merely purchased the company and stuck their logo onto it. At least "McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) X-36" would be more respectful of the history and heritage. They've appropriated everything that was done by the companies they've acquired as if they were parts of their own history... I know most industry giants have a tendancy to do that, but Boeing has gone a step further in doing that; McDonnell, Douglas, North American, Curtiss-Wright, Vertol... These venerable and important entities in the history of aviation deserve more recognition than being footnotes in Boeing's megalomaniac rewriting of its own history.

EDIT: just noticed the change in the topic's title, @overscan (PaulMM) . Great minds!

 

[fightingirish]

Hi folks,
this video is one year old, but the title has been recently changed.

Has the Boeing F-47 been on display for years? The Boeing X-36!
#airplane
Boeing F-47 F47 stealth fighter preview?? .Detailed our of the McDonnell / Boeing NASA X-36 Tailless Fighter Agility Research Aircraft on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, OHIO. A hint of the American Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program? [...]

Video:

View: https://youtu.be/icuuMaf7l44?si=VqNW2FfeopSBoRY4

Link:

https://youtu.be/icuuMaf7l44?si=VqNW2FfeopSBoRY4

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1997-1998

 

[NMaude]

When the F-47 is finally revealed in its entirety I won't be surprised at all if it turns out to be basically a full-scale piloted X-36 type airframe with two engines.

 

[FlyGuy369]

When the F-47 is finally revealed in its entirety I won't be surprised at all if it turns out to be basically a full-scale piloted X-36 type airframe with two engines.

Something like this?

 

[Dynoman]

basically a full-scale piloted X-36 type airframe with two engines

Boeing's TAFA Tailless Advanced Fighter Aircraft was a concept, however it was a single engine design based on the X-36.

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/boeing-tailless-advanced-fighter-aircraft-tafa.42379/

 

[Hanse]

 

[quellish]

The red aircraft is LoFlyte, the aircraft the X-36 is under is a YF-22. There is also a Tacit Rainbow hiding under there.