final F-108 Rapier design (1960) !!!

[Deino]

Found in the latest issue of AIRPOWER regarding the development of the F-108 ... this is the final iteration even after the programes cancellation !  

Enjoy it, Deino    

[Deino]

... and the side !

[Captain Canada]

Man, that sure has alot of wing !

Love underwing tails or whatever you call 'em.........really makes it look fast !

Toadman  

[lancer]

You could stick a hell of a lot of missiles under that wing...

[elmayerle]

A very good article, that, though they did leave out a fwe bits.

As far as I know, the only armament ever shown for teh F-108 is three AIM-47's carried in the internal weapons bay.  Though, obviously, for other purposes than air defense, the AGM-76 could be substituted for it.  This gives the interesting prospect of F-108's or F-12B's using AGM-76's to clear the way for RS-70's, one of the bomber bomber version of the Lockheed A-12, or whatever in an all-out attack.

[Archibald]

Once again, a very, very old thread. But now we have anigrand F-108 to modify!!  

[Andrew Gorman]

Dang, this IS an old thread.  But F-108s are too cool let alone.  Here is an F-108 I made few months before the thread started:
http://groups.msn.com/ModelersAndHobbyForu...um/itcf108.msnw
It's based on the ITC F-108 kit, that had very little in common with the real project, but had really cool artwork:
http://www.ninfinger.org/~sven/models/yaho...20Restored.html
Andrew

[Archibald]

Lovely model