Navalized F-100 Super Fury, Unusual AEW Studies, Douglas "Strip-Tease" Bomber Project

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New articles up at RetroMechanix.com:

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It is accompanied by 58 high resolution images, the majority of which are previously unpublished.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 some unusual 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as the majority of the material is based on original documents found in the US National Archives and is previously unpublished. If you are a scratchbuilder, kitbasher, or general enthusiast, you find much to enjoy on the site.

-Jared

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Neat stuff! That last one looks like a cross between the X-3 and a B-58. That would be fun to make.

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Pretty cool stuff…Thanks for sharing this with us. Sometimes the A/C that did not make it to production are more interesting than those that do.

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Very cool stuff. I like Luftwaffe '46 paper projects but I find American and British prototypes even more interesting esp cool stuff when jets were new and engineers were still trying to figure out what would work and what wouldn’t.

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That F-100 is an interesting design. I assume the Navy chose the Vought F-8U Crusader over this aircraft. Certainly a good decision. I always liked the Hun, but the Crusader is one of those real special aircraft like the Phantom or Saber Jet.

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I just want to let members of the FineScale Modeler community know that if you do a high quality scratchbuild, kitbash, etc. of a subject featured on RetroMechanix.com, I will definitely consider publishing it! One of the goals of the site is to publicize these lesser known designs and inspire modelers, illustrators, etc. to “bring them to life,” so to speak. Some of these aircraft studies were quite extraordinary and would certainly stand out in any collection