Aircraft Mock-Ups

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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.
 
razor1uk said:
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?
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No - they both competed against each other for an ASW contract. Grumman won it, the S2 was created, the rest is history.
 
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.

 
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