REQUIREMENT: US Navy VFA - V/STOL Fighters for Sea Control Ships

[overscan (PaulMM)]

General topic on VFA Requirement:

• VFA - V/STOL Fighters for Sea Control Ships (XFV-12 rivals) [link]

Winning Design:

• Rockwell NR-356 / XFV-12A. [link]

Other designs proposed for VFA:

• Convair (General Dynamics) Model 200. [link]
• Grumman G-607. [link]
• Vought (LTV) V-517 and V-520. [link]
• Fairchild-Republic FR-150. [link]
• Boeing Model 908-535. [link] [user artwork]
• Hawker Siddeley/McDonnell Douglas AV-16. [link]
• San Diego Aircraft Engineering (Sandaire) "Stinger". [link]
• Lockheed 24,000lb turboprop-powered tail sitter derived from XFV-1, perhaps CL-1290??
• VFW Fokker VAK.191 Mk.3.
• McDonnell Douglas Model 258-52.
• de Havilland Canada DHC P-71-30.

Related topics:

• Bell "Seakat" Sea Control Ship (SCS) sensor carrier. [link]
• General Dynamics CL-84-8 Sea Control Ship (SCS) proposal. [link]
• Sea Control Ship (SCS) and VSTOL Support Ship (VSS) naval projects. [link]

 

[acegeek9992]

General topic on VFA Requirement:

• VFA - V/STOL Fighters for Sea Control Ships (XFV-12 rivals) [info]

Winning Design:

• Rockwell NR-356 / XFV-12A. [info]

Other designs proposed for VFA:

• Convair (General Dynamics) Model 200. [info]
  
• Grumman G-607. [info]
  
• Vought (LTV) V-517 and V-520. [info]
  
• Fairchild-Republic FR-150. [info]
  
• Boeing Model 908-535. [info] [user artwork]
  
• Hawker Siddeley/McDonnell Douglas AV-16. [info]
  
• San Diego Aircraft Engineering (Sandaire) "Stinger".
  
• Lockheed 24,000lb turboprop-powered tail sitter derived from XFV-1, perhaps CL-1290??
  
• VFW Fokker VAK.191 Mk.3.
  
• McDonnell Douglas Model 258-52.
  
• de Havilland Canada DHC P-71-30.

Related topics:

• Bell "Seakat" Sea Control Ship (SCS) sensor carrier. [info]
  
• General Dynamics CL-84-8 Sea Control Ship (SCS) proposal. [info]
  
• Sea Control Ship (SCS) and VSTOL Support Ship (VSS) naval projects. [info]

Grumman G-607 link is broken

 

[Archibald]

There it is !

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/grumman-g-607-sea-control-ship-scs-fighter.15470/

 

[acegeek9992]

There it is !

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/grumman-g-607-sea-control-ship-scs-fighter.15470/

Thanks!

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

I updated all the links in the original post.

 

[BAROBA]

• Grumman G-607. [link]

This link takes me back to the forum mainpage...

• Vought (LTV) V-517 and V-520. [info]
• Fairchild-Republic FR-150. [info]
• Boeing Model 908-535. [info] [user artwork]
  
  These don't seem to work either...