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Another parasite fighter concept that actually got to prototype and flight phase was the XF-85 Goblin. It's... pretty adorable actually. https://en.wikipedia.o
by icegreentea2 3y ago
Another parasite fighter concept that actually got to prototype and flight phase was the XF-85 Goblin. It's... pretty adorable actually.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_XF-85_Goblin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_XF-85_Goblin
- dragonwriter 3y agoA parasite (reconnaissance focused, as a pivot from an original nuclear strike concept) fighter was briefly in operational service with the US: the RF-84K operating from modified B-36 Peacemaker bombers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FICON_project https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FICON_project
- runeofdoom 3y agoThere is (or was several years ago), one on display at the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum in Nebraska. You could walk right up to it. (As is the case with most of their aircraft.) Gloriously strange little aircraft.