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Commonality between the B-70 bomber and the F-108 included the escape capsule and General Electric YJ93 engines. Another role considered was for the F-108 to be "gap-fillers" for the Distant Early Warning (DEW) system; because of its great speed, the F-108 could have scanned up to 278,000 square miles (720,000 km 2) per hour. [8]
XF-108 Rapier This page was last edited on 29 September 2011, at 02:01 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
YB-58 at Edwards AFB with GE J93 engine pod. The General Electric YJ93 turbojet engine was designed as the powerplant for both the North American XB-70 Valkyrie bomber and the North American XF-108 Rapier interceptor. The YJ93 was a single-shaft axial-flow turbojet with a variable-stator compressor and a fully variable convergent/divergent ...
McDonnell Aircraft The first swept wing jet fighter and the only single-engined carrier-based fighter McDonnell produced. Provided the basis for the F-4 Phantom. [101] 1951 [101] 1956 [101] 519 [101] F-9 (F9F-6/7/9) Cougar: Fighter Grumman 1951 1952 1,988 XF10F Jaguar: Prototype swing-wing fighter aircraft Grumman
The Air Force XF-109 designation had previously been assigned to a proposed Convair F-106B variant, however, had subsequently been left blank and Bell assumed – if the D-188A had been built – that this would have been assigned to the aircraft. Many reference works refer to the D-188A by its assumed experimental series number, but in fact ...
Kenneth Oscar Chilstrom (April 20, 1921 – December 3, 2022) was a United States Air Force officer, combat veteran, test pilot, and author.He was the first USAF pilot to fly the XP-86 Sabre, chief of fighter test at Wright Field, commandant of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, and program manager for the XF-108 Rapier.
NF-106B: This designation was given to two F-106Bs used as test aircraft with NASA and associated research facilities from 1966 to 1991. [65] F-106C: Unbuilt version. Aircraft was intended to have the AN/ASG-18 radar and fire control system fitted originally developed for the North American XF-108 Rapier. For its time, it was the largest radar ...
North American XF-108 Rapier; Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era. BAC TSR-2; Dassault Mirage IV; General Dynamics–Grumman F-111B; Related lists. List of bomber aircraft; List of United States Navy aircraft designations (pre-1962)