Spey Powered Super Sabre

[Geoff]

Cheers Daryl, I have to admit I was chatting when I picked it up; it says Ertyl, I read "Ecsi". Never mind, I think I got a can from a F4M in 1/72 somewhere, and a WB-177 for that special occasion.

[Archibald]

Joe Baugher had something on the subject. It seems that the project was the called F-100S, but raised no interest. North American had no replacement for the F-100 after "failure" of F-107 and F-108.
The F-100 was proposed to Japan against Super Tiger and F-104 as far as 1960...

And I remember some pictures showing a basic F-100 with a big radome above the air intake (ala F-86D) (think Elamyerle posted them a year ago, can't remember exactly).

The J-57 was a rather big engine (6.20m long, 2300 kg, 1.15 diameter) while the spey was much smaller (roughly 5 m long for 1600 kg).