FLYBOYJ
"THE GREAT GAZOO"
Republic XP-69
Aircraft Mock-Ups
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FLYBOYJ
"THE GREAT GAZOO"
Grumman XP-50
fubar57
General
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George,
According to the following website, the US Navy liked the Vought idea, but gave it to Grumman because they needed the work. It became the S-2 Tracker.
U.S. Navy Aircraft History
Jim
According to the following website, the US Navy liked the Vought idea, but gave it to Grumman because they needed the work. It became the S-2 Tracker.
U.S. Navy Aircraft History
Jim
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I'm glad! The best is yet to come I assure you...
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razor1uk
Staff Sergeant
Ah, so the Grumman Tracker was spun off a Vought concept... I take it was largely Grumman's own design internally/structurally etc with just Vought inspired shape, or perhaps things got a bit further when the USN handed it over?
That A6 single seater with its slimmer fuz (without tail - likely they had a number of tail design still to test/work through..) looks a bit like a chubbier Northrop Buckeye. ..and it appears to have one (or two cannons; one each side?) behind and under the nose plus a separate terrain/altitude or bombing radar too.
That A6 single seater with its slimmer fuz (without tail - likely they had a number of tail design still to test/work through..) looks a bit like a chubbier Northrop Buckeye. ..and it appears to have one (or two cannons; one each side?) behind and under the nose plus a separate terrain/altitude or bombing radar too.
FLYBOYJ
"THE GREAT GAZOO"
No - they both competed against each other for an ASW contract. Grumman won it, the S2 was created, the rest is history.
razor1uk
Staff Sergeant
Ah, cheers for the clarification Flyboy 
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What I consider the MOAM (Mother Of All Mock-ups): The Boeing 2702
This thing was massive, notice the man standing in the foreground, with full interior and swinging-wings! (Hey, it WAS the sixties!)
This thing was massive, notice the man standing in the foreground, with full interior and swinging-wings! (Hey, it WAS the sixties!)
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Which was all moot, because Boeing ended up saying they were going to build this: 2707-300
FLYBOYJ
"THE GREAT GAZOO"
Focke-Wulf Entwurf 6 also known as Projekt VI
FLYBOYJ
"THE GREAT GAZOO"
P-35
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Messerschmitt Me 329
Hard to believe they were even considering a plane like this in '44/'45, don't you think?
Hard to believe they were even considering a plane like this in '44/'45, don't you think?
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The original take on the F-14. Notice anything different?
The F-14 offered to the USAF to replace the F-106.
And Vought's VFX offering, the V507 (pictured here with two A-7's), a full scale mock-up of design that lost out to the Tomcat.
The F-14 offered to the USAF to replace the F-106.
And Vought's VFX offering, the V507 (pictured here with two A-7's), a full scale mock-up of design that lost out to the Tomcat.
Great stuff guys!
Matt308
Glock Perfection
Love the F-14 with single tail. Never have seen that!!! And that single tail looks waaaayyyy to small!!
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
Nor have I, great info gents!
