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Especially when their names are so damn similar and the companies that built each plane have now merged
Crusaders not Phantoms
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Especially when their names are so damn similar and the companies that built each plane have now merged
Nothing that was actually built... but the preliminary idea for what became the T-38 and F-5 originated as the Northrop N-156 design for a light fighter able to operate off the USN's WW2 surplus light and escort carriers (probably using JATO or RATO systems for the latter).
https://books.google.com/books?id=BPw6DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA149&lpg=PA149&dq=N-156D+Northrop&source=bl&ots=tlyalWp51M&sig=CyJduhWRw0jHDdKX6gRuC9xtP64&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiph4Xts9HNAhWIyoMKHRQSDRcQ6AEIHjAA#v=onepage&q=N-156D Northrop&f=false
Scroll down to the N-285 and N-285B. I particularly found the launch weight with 10 knots WOD with an H8 hydraulic catapult very useful. You can figure out what the wing loading was, and it explained why the USN rejected the F-11 super tiger as "to heavy".. she could not launch from an H8, so they were looking at her as the CVS air guard fighter.
But if she had a 300 square foot wing it would lower the wing loading enough that it would be possible.. she would generate enough lift.
Scroll down to the N-285 and N-285B. I particularly found the launch weight with 10 knots WOD with an H8 hydraulic catapult very useful. You can figure out what the wing loading was, and it explained why the USN rejected the F-11 super tiger as "to heavy".. she could not launch from an H8, so they were looking at her as the CVS air guard fighter.
But if she had a 300 square foot wing it would lower the wing loading enough that it would be possible.. she would generate enough lift.
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