Northrop pre-ATF and ATF studies

[alostbaron]

There's a top view only in Tony Chong's - Flying Wings and Radical Things P223

Aw man that's rough! I'll have to eyeball it for my model then LOL.

 

[Basil]

Maybe related to this concept ?,also designed by Northrop.

http://archive.aviationweek.com/image/spread/19841119/24/2

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/attachments/2-png.551999/

... looks like from the late 1940s or early 1950s ...

 

[alostbaron]

There's a top view only in Tony Chong's - Flying Wings and Radical Things P223

Actually, in the Northrop NAD roadmap it seems there's a side view of it under the "Ongoing Northrop Vehicle Designs" box. The top view, when lined up with the top view provided by Tony Chong, matches near perfectly. Unless it's a side view of another project? Perhaps related to the Missileer?

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Well spotted. It looks 100% consistent.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

I went back to the source images @BillRo sent me, and this is the best I could do. You can just make out the wing flaps and the angle of the dorsal air intakes - looks aligned to the wing leading edge.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Going through my files I found this incredibly nice high res drawing of the Northrop N-371 that @BillRo sent me, I don't ever seem to have posted.

John B. [John Binden - Admin] drew it but I cannot remember what AFT stood for - perhaps Advanced Fighter Technology. It also has the ubiquitous delta wing after we were warned off the diamond wing by the YF-23 team. Prior to coming to Northrop, John did the configuration for the ATR-42.

According to Tony Chong this was the last "ATF" study by the 'white world' team.

 

[Mustafa19]

I was always wondering the origin of concept of GDI Fighter Jet at C&C 95(Tiberian Dawn). Now I see where...

 

[BLACK_MAMBA]

Going through my files I found this incredibly nice high res drawing of the Northrop N-371 that @BillRo sent me, I don't ever seem to have posted.
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According to Tony Chong this was the last "ATF" study by the 'white world' team.

It looks like those engines are non-reheated or am I mistaking? I recall Northrop did a series of studies for such aircraft somewhere.

 

[BillRo]

The N-371-9 engines were GE16/J25 B4 (whatever they were - F404 development?) with vectoring. A white world design being done as Bob Sandusky was doing the YF-23 in the black.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

GE16 was a whole family of 'paper' advanced engine designs.

GE16/F40 was a 'tandem turboramjet hyperjet' used on the Boeing 1074-006