Fairchild's T-46 Eaglet

[icchan]

Well, it was a canceled design so it's not like there's going to be a wealth of technical information or images out there, but does anyone have any info on this little cutie at the bottom right?  Fairchild's T-46 Eaglet trainer, which could have been turned into a cute little COIN/light-attack like the Dragonfly.  161 square feet of wing for 6800 pounds of plane, that's a wing-loading on par with a paper airplane...and had much much room to be added to.  There's a 62%-scale model that Rutan built and flew according to what I found; what I'm hoping anyone knows about is the fullsize version of which three were made.

Hell, it's probably the cutest coulda-been modern combat aircraft, and that alone means that it deserves a thread!  Eaglet is love, show it some in return.

[famvburg]

Here's a little info as well. http://www.anigrand.com/AA2080_T-46.htm

[Weaver]

I picked up some leaflets about it at Farnborough back when it was a live project, and in fact, my mum copied one of the paintings!  She was just starting out with watercolours and copying anything that took her fancy to get the technique. I'll see if I can find them......

[Weaver]

Here you go:

[GTX]

I must admit that I never really was attracted to the T-46.  Just doesn't seem in proportion or something.

Regards,

Greg

[NARSES2]

Yup fusalge looks a little short, very tadpole like

[PR19_Kit]

A twin engined Miles Stuednt on steroids? 

[NARSES2]

A twin engined Miles Stuednt on steroids? 

There is a similarity

[Weaver]

A twin engined Miles Stuednt on steroids? 

Lots of steroids looking at the engine powers.....