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as promised, today is also a Flogger Friday

Vought V-530, a multimission VTOL platform intended to fulfill the USN's Type A requirement. the aircraft was intended to take advantage of aramid and carbon composites to reduce weight. the V-530 may have serviced the VSTOL Support Ship if neither project had been canceled.

artworks and models of an early Boeing configuration for the E-3 Sentry. a vertical stabilizer rotodome would only ever be seen again on the An-71. Boeing would also explore an eight-engine concept before turning to a more conservative dorsal rotodome quad-engine design.

General Dynamics reading material on the F-16 for Japan. unfortunately, i do not have the entire brochure.

material on a Nimrod-based airborne early warning platform from the 1970s. this proposal depicts the platform with an E-2-like rotodome. purchasing the US AN/APS-125 had been considered as part of Nimrod AEW development before the decision to use the Skymaster system.

Lockheed's P-7A, an intended replacement for the P-3 in the late 1980s. using an enlarged version of the Orion airframe, the aircraft boasted increased range and payload alongside the more powerful T407 turboprop. development issues and cost overruns resulted in cancellation.

Phaces of the Phantom. happy Phriday, everyone.

photographs and concept drawings of the P6M SeaMaster, a 1950s flying boat envisioned as an alternative to traditional nuclear bombers. it drew upon characteristics of the XB-51 and could attain transonic speed. ultimately, it was obsoleted by submarine missile armaments.