NASA Langley "LIttle Boy" Light Fighter study (VAX related)

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Here's what appears to be a very odd VAX design from 1962.

CRGIS review

 

[hesham]

In Ailes 13/7/1962,

I found this strange VG STOL Fighter Project,and it was appeared in Aviation Week Magazine,I made a good
search in its archive,but nothing I found,maybe it was not a generic design,so if anyone can help ?.

 

[Anderman]

Has similarities with the Lockheed CL 590

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/win-or-die-lockheed-cl-590.1879/

 

[hesham]

Maybe you are right,but who can find it in Aviation Week magazine ?.

 

[uk 75]

The French text seems to suggest it is a NASA Langley study

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Here's what appears to be a very odd VAX design from 1962.

CRGIS review

Seems to be a NASA study called "Little Boy".

Source: Aviation Week 2 July 1962 (Special NASA Issue)

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

This is the Langley "Little Boy"

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/before-the-val-there-was-the-vax-competition.1487/#post-387243

 

[riggerrob]

At those extreme sweep angles, the outer wing panels essentially “disappear.”
You then depend upon lift developed by the sharply-swept, wing-root, leading edge ….. more like a gothic wing.