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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.

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.

the M-3000, a North American Aviation study for converting the XB-70 to a supersonic civilian liner. the M-3000 likely would have suffered from high costs and low capacity alongside the waning interest in SSTs by the late 20th Century. no full-scale mockups were constructed.

a Lockheed brochure on the F-22 in the Advanced Tactical Fighter program. 1/6

a mid-1980s project, the McDonnell Douglas Model 279 was to be a successor to the AV-8A. though similar in nozzle configuration and mass to the Harrier, the Model 279 incorporated large lifting canards and was intended to be supersonic with several inlet designs studied.