captain_dalan Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 While browsing for the early 303 concepts i stumbled across this series of articles. I don't think they were posted before: http://steeljawscribe.com/2007/11/23/flightdeck-friday-tfx-%E2%80%93-a-time-for-turkeys-pt-i http://steeljawscribe.com/2007/11/30/flightdeck-friday-tfx-%E2%80%93-a-time-for-turkeys-pt-ii http://steeljawscribe.com/2007/12/16/flightdeck-friday-tfx-a-time-for-turkeys-part-iii I hope you enjoy it Cheers and safe flying! :pilotfly::thumbup: Modules: FC3, Mirage 2000C, Harrier AV-8B NA, F-5, AJS-37 Viggen, F-14B, F-14A, Combined Arms, F/A-18C, F-16C, MiG-19P, F-86, MiG-15, FW-190A, Spitfire Mk IX, UH-1 Huey, Su-25, P-51PD, Caucasus map, Nevada map, Persian Gulf map, Marianas map, Syria Map, Super Carrier, Sinai map, Mosquito, P-51, AH-64 Apache Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackLion213 Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 Nice find! I'm quite sure that this has never been poster here before (rare occurrence these days :P). Fun read and chance to see what the other proposals looked like. It is revealing that every proposal except one was variable geometry and the lone hold-out was rejected immediately on the basis of a NASA assessment that rejected the performance claims. It still seems crazy that a single airframe managed to combine a Mach 2.4 top speed with a 125 KIAS approach speed. -Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain_dalan Posted August 22, 2017 Author Share Posted August 22, 2017 Thanks mate! Looking back the swing wing was probably the only way to go to achieve this back then. I wonder what today's engineers would come up with if faced with the same requirements. Modules: FC3, Mirage 2000C, Harrier AV-8B NA, F-5, AJS-37 Viggen, F-14B, F-14A, Combined Arms, F/A-18C, F-16C, MiG-19P, F-86, MiG-15, FW-190A, Spitfire Mk IX, UH-1 Huey, Su-25, P-51PD, Caucasus map, Nevada map, Persian Gulf map, Marianas map, Syria Map, Super Carrier, Sinai map, Mosquito, P-51, AH-64 Apache Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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