US Stealth Fighter Projects

[Colonial-Marine]

Hope to pre-order soon. I'm still kicking myself over never being able to get a copy of Metz's book on the YF-23. I'm looking forward to seeing how much detail this one goes into. There is apparently one Northrop NATF design (DP500?) that kept the v-tail configuration but was too long to meet requirements. I'd love to see an image of that design but maybe it never found its way into the public domain. I'm sure there is a lot of work related to JSF that also never saw the light of day. For example, Lockheed seemed to examine a pretty wide range of different airframe configurations between their final one for CALF layout and the one they went with for JSF.
Considering how many programs preceded JSF but were directly related, it would probably take a whole even larger book for the entire story.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Hope to pre-order soon. I'm still kicking myself over never being able to get a copy of Metz's book on the YF-23

That was a great book, with a lot of credit due to the researchers and contributors as well as the author.

 

[Orionblamblam]

The diagram collection for US Stealth Fighters. There may be some adjustments as the layout process goes forth. While hopefully reproduced at Tantalizing-Yet-Annoyingly-Small-Scale, each box represents a full page. So the great majority are full-page illustrations.

 

[Dagger]

I'm still kicking myself over never being able to get a copy of Metz's book on the YF-23.

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