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F-107A
Apr 22, 2014 13:29:41 GMT -7
Post by Robert on Apr 22, 2014 13:29:41 GMT -7
The North American F-107 was North American Aviation's entry in a United States Air Force tactical fighter/bomber design competition of the 1950s. The F-107 was based on the F-100 Super Sabre, but included many innovations and radical design features, notably the over-fuselage air intakes. The competition was eventually won by the F-105 Thunderchief, the F-107 prototypes ended their lives as test aircraft. The F-107 was never given an official name, but was sometimes informally called the "Super Super Sabre" referring to North American's earlier fighter design, the F-100 Super Sabre. The flight crews referred to it as the "man eater", in reference to the position of the air intake directly above the cockpit. I chose to build 55-5120 because the real aircraft was scrapped. Aircraft disposition 55-5118 - Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona. 55-5119 - experimental aircraft hangar at the National Museum of the U.S.Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB. 55-5120 - scrapped in the 1960s.
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