Rockwell NA-420, NA-430 and NA-431 (US Navy "Type A" proposals)

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Rockwell NA 430 VSTOL Multi Mission Aircraft


Design definition study of NASA/Navy lift/cruise fan V/STOL aircraft. Volume 1: Summary report of Navy multimission aircraft
Cavage, R. L. (Rockwell International)
NASA-CR-137695

Design definition study of NASA/Navy lift/cruise fan V/STOL aircraft. Volume 1: Summary report of Navy multimission aircraft - NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

This report presents results of a study by the Rockwell International Corporation for the NASA Ames Research Center and the Naval Air Systems Command of promising Navy lift-cruise fan V/STOL aircraft for the 1980-1985 time period. The purpose of the study was to identify the likely technical and...

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[hesham]

Hi,

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA144214&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf

 

[Stargazer]

That's the North American NA-431, one of three "Type A" proposals for the U.S. Navy (the other two being NA-420 and NA-430, see attachments).

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Presume this is Rockwell's NA-420 design

Source: http://archive.org/details/C-1981-5639

(picture edited)

 

[hesham]

Hi,


here is the Rockwell Lift Cruise Fan V/STOL aircraft in multi-mission configuration,
for Naval uses.

Low speed wind tunnel test of ground proximity and deck edge effects on a lift cruise fan V/STOL configuration, volume 1
Stewart, V. R.(Rockwell International)
NASA-CR-152247

Low speed wind tunnel test of ground proximity and deck edge effects on a lift cruise fan V/STOL configuration, volume 1 - NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

The characteristics were determined of a lift cruise fan V/STOL multi-mission configuration in the near proximity to the edge of a small flat surface representation of a ship deck. Tests were conducted at both static and forward speed test conditions. The model (0.12 scale) tested was a four fan...

ntrs.nasa.gov

Low speed wind tunnel test of ground proximity and deck edge effects on a lift cruise fan V/STOL configuration, volume 2
Stewart, V. R.(Rockwell International)
NASA-CR-152248

Low speed wind tunnel test of ground proximity and deck edge effects on a lift cruise fan V/STOL configuration, volume 2 - NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

The following test results are appended: (1) wind tunnel data, (2) static thrust stand data, and (3) fan calibration data.

ntrs.nasa.gov

 

[hesham]

Is this Model,the Rockwell NA-420 ?;

Flow visualization and interpretation of visualization data for deflected thrust V/STOL nozzles
Kao, H. C, Burstadt, P. L, Johns, A. L. (NASA Lewis Research Center)
NASA-TM-83554

Flow visualization and interpretation of visualization data for deflected thrust V/STOL nozzles - NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Flow visualization studies were made for four deflected thrust nozzle models at subsonic speeds. Based on topological rules and the assumption that observed streaks constitute continuous vector fields, available visualization pictures are interpreted and flow patterns on interior surfaces of the...

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[Stargazer]

Is this Model,the Rockwell NA-420 ?;

I don't think so. Despite some commonalities, there are also some notable differences:

• Small canopy on NA-420, large canopy and small nose on this design
• Engine pods below wing on NA-420, but partly above on this design
• Tail unit seems to extend further aft on this design

BUT... it could still be a different sub-variant of the NA-420.

 

[hesham]

Also from AIAA;

AIAA Aerospace Research Central

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

From a generic VSTOL topic, Rockwell NA-430 artwork from Naval Aviation News Sept 1978.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

From Ron Kaplan in Facebook Group "The X-Planes Fans" (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1034064560004676) comes this incredible artwork, looks like Rockwell NA-430.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

There's a beautiful NA-430 in-flight painting and an NA-431 ready for takeoff painting in American Secret Projects: US Airlifters Since 1962 P.187. The NA-430 is close to the artwork above, but the wing depicted above is closer to the NA-431.

 

[Vahe Demirjian]

Is this Model,the Rockwell NA-420 ?;


http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19840006079_1984006079.pdf

That aircraft is actually the NA-430; the artwork showing the NA-430 can be found on page 187 of American Secret Projects 3: US Airlifters Since 1962.

 

[hesham]

From this report

 

[Prophet141]

That engine layout looks very unusual. It looks like there are two gas-turbines of some sort in each nacelle powering a fan that then sends air through the wings? Am I getting that right? Does anyone have a labelled diagram/patent for this design?