Republic XF-12 Rainbow

[GeorgeA]

50-60000 feet?

Makes you wonder what the **** kind of air defense threat they were thinking about.

They were ambitious in those days. The original spec for what became the B-36 called for a 45,000 ft ceiling, 450 mph over the target, and a 12,000 mi range — in early 1941.

 

[bercr]

Great color stuff from the NASM Rudy Arnold photo collection

http://edan.si.edu/slideshow/slideshowViewer.htm?eadrefid=NASM.XXXX.0356_ref1343

 

[RAP]

Pan Am Clipper ad

 

[merriman]

Pan Am Clipper ad

Apparently PAA failed to keep Jimmy Steward out of the cockpit. Ah, what might have been.

https://youtu.be/ELLDMuh32fY

David

 

[Mark Nankivil]

Good Day All -

A rather simplistic Republic drawing for the interior arrangement of the XF-12.

Enjoy the Day! Mark

 

[fightingirish]

129 pictures at the Cradle of Aviation Museum web archive.
Link:

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cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org

If this is the wrong topic or these pictures have been posted before, please let me know.

 

[hesham]

The Republic RC-2.

From Air Pictorial 1/1958,

I think this Info was for RC-2 ?.

 

[fightingirish]

Celebrating Aviation with Mike Machat
REPUBLIC XR-12 RAINBOW - World's Fastest Four-Engine Piston-Powered Aircraft
The right airplane at the wrong time - the story of Republic's attempt to build a record-breaking photo-recon aircraft and commercial airliner in 1946.

Again, a great video done by Mike Machat.
Video:

View: https://youtu.be/ZTy0zyfP6KI

Link:

https://youtu.be/ZTy0zyfP6KI

 

[hesham]

From Flying magazine 1946-12.

 

[A Tentative Fleet Plan]

Published on the forum over the XF-12. The French engineer Michel Wibault was a design member of the Rainbow propulsion unit.

 

[Stargazer]

A project to mate two F-84D Thunderjet fighters at the wingtips of a Rainbow...

Source: Cradle of Aviation Museum