If you are interested in “secret projects” and aviation might-have-beens, check out RetroMechanix.com, which recently featured an article on the North American navalized F-100 Super Fury proposal of 1953:
It is accompanied by 58 high resolution images, the majority of which are previously unpublished.
Other additions include a short article on the North American ESO 4705 CIC / AEW studies of the early Cold War period:
It features three interesting configuration drawings, one of which looks like the mutant offspring of Vincent Burnelli and Charles Zimmerman.
Also recently posted was an article on the Douglas Model 1209 High Speed Composite Bomber of 1950, a possible GEBO study:
It features one large blueprint of a sleek, supersonic bird that looks like it’s doing Mach 3 standing still.
There are many more interesting articles planned in the coming weeks, so please check the site frequently; you’ll undoubtedly see something that you’ve never seen before, as the majority of the material is based on original documents found in the US National Archives and is previously unpublished.
-Jared
By: Bager1968 - 26th April 2011 at 07:57
And the Fury link seems to have crashed.
{edit: and is back up.}
By: Bager1968 - 26th April 2011 at 07:50
Thanks very much for the link.
I brought up the FJ-5 Fury last year here: Huns in the 70’s & 80’s thread in Key’s Modern Military Aircraft section
Note the link to an on-line site covering a bunch of proposed naval variants of the F-100 and F-107:
http://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2009/10/proposed-super-furies.html
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April 26, 2011 at 6:15 am