Concepts from the Bell/McDonnell-Douglas "Super Team":
Note that the first picture is an early Bell scout-attack (SCAT) configuration with ringtail before proposing usage of the NOTAR instead (Source: "Warplanes of the Future," Bill Gunston, 1986).
Last four are from "Bell Aircraft since 1935," Alain J. Pelletier.
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Hughes' older scout-attack (SCAT) proposal (pre-McDD) with swept wings and NOTAR:
Note that the last picture depicts a model illustrating an alternate shape and scimitar main rotor compared to what has often been confused to be a supersonic fighter in the earlier illustrations.
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Early Sikorsky SCAT concept utilizing the Advancing Blade Concept (ABC) with coaxial rotors - the inclusion of the shrouded pusher propeller was also an option:
Cutaway drawing from Army Aviation Digest, January 1983.
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Another picture of the early Bell SCAT configuration, and a 3-view of the Super Team concept from "Stealth Technology: The Art Of Black Magic," J. Jones:
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Also labeled as Sikorsky concepts, but I'm not sure of the timframe because they have a bit of both ideas found in the Sikorsky SCAT and later First Team proposals:
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McDonnell Douglas/Bell Textron ads for the Super Team LHX. First is from December 1988, next two are from January 1991.
Fourth one found by Flateric (love this one).
Last one is from when Hughes became McDonnell-Douglas (note the original cigar-shaped Hughes concept illustrated by the wire-frame graphics). Dated March, 1986.
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Getting awful close to the Comanche we all know and love.
Northrop also had a submission to the LHX program in 1985, similar to some McDonnell-Douglas concepts while utilizing stopped X-Wing rotors much like Sikorsky's program.
Getting awful close to the Comanche we all know and love.
Northrop also had a submission to the LHX program in 1985, similar to some McDonnell-Douglas concepts while utilizing stopped X-Wing rotors much like Sikorsky's program.
You mean this? It was a sole entry to the X-Wing program. The two engines were placed vertically on top of each other along the longitudinal axis of the aircraft's fuselage to reduce size and weight.
According to the patent, The engines provide the drive mechanism for the rotor via a common gear box, drive an air compressor utilized to provide compressed air in a controlled manner through slots formed on the blades of the X-wing, and provide the propulsive force for the aircraft. The engines are also utilized to provide pitch and yaw capability. Each engine and the core jet stream therefrom is ducted to a rectangular shaped nozzle having vectoring flaps for pitch control. The vectoring flaps also act as nozzle blockers in conjunction with the left and right hand side vectoring cascades used for yaw control. Additional pitch and yaw control may be provided by a control surface formed on the underside of the aircraft fuselage forward of the lower side cascades.
It was also intended to have an ejection seat for emergency situations, though the aircraft would have to stay in fixed-wing flight or have detachable rotor-wings in order for the pilot to successfully pass the general area of the rotor disk.
The full patent is floating around somewhere in the appropriate section of this forum.
I use to have a color concept of Northrop's scout-attack X-Wing but it seems to have disappeared from my computer. I'll post it up as soon as I find it.
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I use to have a color concept of Northrop's scout-attack X-Wing but it seems to have disappeared from my computer. I'll post it up as soon as I find it.
I've seen it elsewhere myself. If memory serves me correctly, it was the same patent drawing colored for a web site or news agency.
Right you are Ace, and I still can't find my copy. It might have been deleted during an information transfer between my two PCs, and I have it printed out in my "North America" volume of my binder "archives" under my bed, but not only is it complete hell to get to at the moment, but the print is in black-and-white. You're better off with the original patent drawing for now until I find a better copy of the color version.
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The requirements were changed sometime after Bell completed the BAT (Bell Advanced Tiltrotor) mockup. It had similar provisions for internally-stored armament, but it's weight was a problem since newer LHX requirements included a weight limit of under 3150kg. The BAT was 3600kg.
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