F-101 (and XF-88) Voodoo

[chrisonord]

I like the look of that, that looks so right don't you think??
Cheers,
Chris.

[ElectrikBlue]

Great minds think alike... I also made a tailless one.

[KJ_Lesnick]

Stargazer2006 definitely has better graphics in that he edited a real photo, but ElektrikBlue's design is far more truer to the Draken...

KJ Lesnick

[Stargazer]

I have to agree 100% with that. Great job, EB!!!

[sideshowbob9]

^ Not me! As much as I may want to try.  

[dy031101]

Um...... looks like I've just got another item to add into my bucket list......

(I don't think it'll make me the first though!  And, as with most of my bucket list items, it likely won't be in plastic.)

[famvburg]

      You mean like the 1/144 one that Jim/convairxf92 made in that same thread?

The notion of a hybrid F-101/F-4 has been danced around a few times. Now that we actually know what the F-101D tactical Voodoo was going to look like, who'll be first to model this sucker? 

http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,6914.0.html

[Jschmus]

The XF-88 was featured on the x planes blog this week:



"McDonnell XF-88 (S/N 46-526, second aircraft built) during a rocket armament test fire."


McDonnell XF-88B.  "Designed for research into supersonic propeller design, it flew for the first time on 14 April 1953. Power was provided by two Westinghouse J34 turbojets and a nose-mounted Allison XT38 turboprop engine."


I love this blog.
http://xplanes.tumblr.com/

[rickshaw]

The XF-88B is very interesting.  Hadn't heard of that one before.  Perhaps add scimitar blades instead of the straight ones and you'd have a very interesting (and viable) aircraft indeed.

[GTX]

Except for the noise...

Regards,

Greg

[kitnut617]

The XF-88B is very interesting.  Hadn't heard of that one before.  Perhaps add scimitar blades instead of the straight ones and you'd have a very interesting (and viable) aircraft indeed.

I've got a Maintrack 1/72 vacuform kit of this which includes the propeller as an optional build

[Daryl J.]

Demon-esque wings on the X-88?   

[PR19_Kit]

I've never managed to find any pics of the XF-88B with the turbo-prop running. Does anyone know if it ever did? And better, has anyone else seen a pic with the prop moving?

[jcf]

Hi Kit,
the turbo-prop was operated in flight, however, it was used to test high-speed propeller designs rather than as a
a primary motive force for the aircraft.

Here is a link to the NACA test report:
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19930085294_1993085294.pdf

According to one source only eight flights were made by McDonnell with the prop turning, so any photos are probably buried
somewhere in the McDonnell (now Boeing) and NASA files.
See page two at the following link:
http://www.me.wustl.edu/~aiaa/November_1996.pdf

[PR19_Kit]

Fascinating stuff, thanks, with some real live test data as well.

I loved the bit where someone reported '...an aircraft taking off without the engine running...'!