F-16 Dérivatives

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This F-16 with very front nose-wheel has a harmonious aspect while dangerous as the air intake is eating mud and pebbles:
(still for my F-16 what-if site http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/f16ofil.htm )

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And for the experimental X-36, a F-16 could have been used simply, with little changes:

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Have you tried blending F-16 with Rockwell HiMAT or Rockwell-MBB X-31?

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Have you tried blending F-16 with Rockwell HiMAT or Rockwell-MBB X-31?

The "piloted" version (project) of HiMat was so much looking like a F-16 that I classified it as F-16 cousin, not source of mix with F-16:


For the X-31 also, the position of its air intake makes it a F-16 cousin rather than inspiration for derivatives, I thought, but you are right, I may try for both.
(Up to now, they were in chapter 2 cousins of my site http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/f16ofil.htm rather then subchapter 3C drawing creations)

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The F-16 HiMAT looks good, whatever classification.
An F-16 / X-31 might end up looking like a short F-16 XL with the thrust vectoring paddles.

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Interesting concepts

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Thanks!

An F-16 / X-31 might end up looking like a short F-16 XL with the thrust vectoring paddles.

Like this?


It looks like your one:

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Thanks!

An F-16 / X-31 might end up looking like a short F-16 XL with the thrust vectoring paddles.

Like this?
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You put more X-31 into it than I expected - and I like it.

Mine is ridiculously short 

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Thanks!

Mine is ridiculously short 

My opinion is different:
- in the what-if world, "ridiculous" means "funny" which means "very good"!
- I love your one , better than my one (too much long alas)

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Thanks!

Mine is ridiculously short 

My opinion is different:
- in the what-if world, "ridiculous" means "funny" which means "very good"!

Yes it is. Funny 

and certainly not "realistic"     

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Have you tried blending F-16 with Rockwell HiMAT?

The F-16 HiMAT looks good, whatever classification.

The picture above was a HiMAT with a canopy and missiles under wings, but I may imagine a true F-16 with HiMAT influence:

Thanks!

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When Lockheed bought General Dynamics/Convair, the old team that designed the F-104 piloted missile judged: "this Falcon is ridiculous; too much wing area, not enough wing loading, and this low tailplane behind the wing is bad, let us correct this!" The F-16F-104 was born! ("a star is born" said Hollywood)

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I have found the 1945 ancestors of the project F-16Z then prototype YF-16:

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The Marganski EM-10 Bielik looks like a twin-fin F-16B, but a modified F-16 like below could do quite the same:

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Zero-Lauch Take-Off is possible with Falcons too: