Vought Avon Cutlass

[The Rat]

Nice 

I love these two quotes:
"Our job was to test the Cutlass," wrote F7U Navy test pilot—later astronaut—Wally Schirra in his autobiography, Schirra's Space. "The company soon became Chancy Vought to us, for in our judgment the Cutlass was an accident looking for a place to happen, a widow maker."

"The Cutlass could be made into a pretty good flying machine with a few modifications," wrote F7U-3 pilot John Moore in The Wrong Stuff, about his Navy flying days. "Like a conventional tail, tripling the thrust, cutting the nosewheel strut in half, completely redoing the flight control system, and getting someone else to fly it."

        

[Glenn Gilbertson]

That looks so right!