Short TFX history

[captain_dalan]

While browsing for the early 303 concepts i stumbled across this series of articles. I don't think they were posted before:

 

http://steeljawscribe.com/2007/11/23/flightdeck-friday-tfx-%E2%80%93-a-time-for-turkeys-pt-i

 

http://steeljawscribe.com/2007/11/30/flightdeck-friday-tfx-%E2%80%93-a-time-for-turkeys-pt-ii

 

http://steeljawscribe.com/2007/12/16/flightdeck-friday-tfx-a-time-for-turkeys-part-iii

 

 

I hope you enjoy it

 

Cheers and safe flying! :pilotfly::thumbup:

[BlackLion213]

Nice find! I'm quite sure that this has never been poster here before (rare occurrence these days :P).

 

Fun read and chance to see what the other proposals looked like. It is revealing that every proposal except one was variable geometry and the lone hold-out was rejected immediately on the basis of a NASA assessment that rejected the performance claims.

 

It still seems crazy that a single airframe managed to combine a Mach 2.4 top speed with a 125 KIAS approach speed.

 

-Nick

[captain_dalan]

Thanks mate!

 

Looking back the swing wing was probably the only way to go to achieve this back then. I wonder what today's engineers would come up with if faced with the same requirements.