And it fit the same size hangar, access tools, transport vehicules, etc... it's not efficient to build something to look different only to look different...No, but why reinvent an fairly good wheel?
And it fit the same size hangar, access tools, transport vehicules, etc... it's not efficient to build something to look different only to look different...No, but why reinvent an fairly good wheel?
Lockyang Martin 100%. Also if they're hiring I could use the cash.They'll now call them Shenheed Martin lol, or does Lockyang Martin sound better?
No comparisons in the David Axe piece that are too wildly verging on "Chinese copycat F-35"...I guess you can call that personal growth?
Thanks for pointing my mistakes out! Also IIRC for the longest time people weren't even sure if this design actually existed past the concept art stage (too little information), it was only after someone put a model of the design made by Lockheed onto Ebay that people were sure that it was actually a thing.This is incorrect. The NATF program was required to be based off the ATF birds. The Navy was required to use an aircraft based on the winning proposal. Lockheed won and the Navy shut it down. Probably would have for Northrop, too.
That's the art work I recall being released back in the early 90s when Lockheed had won.
The reuse of the program was, iirc, directed by congress. It's not what the Navy wanted.
FACT: The first human flight took place in Versailles in 1783, with a human notably in the air rather than on the ground.No comparisons in the David Axe piece that are too wildly verging on "Chinese copycat F-35"...I guess you can call that personal growth?
Man, USN really dig those swing-wing designs, must be a real advantage in carrier approaches.Thanks for pointing my mistakes out! Also IIRC for the longest time people weren't even sure if this design actually existed past the concept art stage (too little information), it was only after someone put a model of the design made by Lockheed onto Ebay that people were sure that it was actually a thing.
Here are some pictures of said model
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.......alright I should stop dragging this thread off topic
Later the fact that such an aircraft would have been useless for anything else got it canceled. But the need for something that can circle the fleet slowly for a long time and engage incoming targets at stand off distances with long range missiles remained, hence F-14, and its intended successor.