In the very early 1990’s I visited the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio. While there I got in to see the archives; hanging on the wall of one of the hallways leading to the archive was a mounted illustration showing a wide variety of conceptual aircraft designs produced there at Wright-Patterson. I took a photo of this using the cheapo film camera that I had with me at the time. The hallway was dim, and the resulting photo is depressingly fuzzy, to say the least.
When I returned to Dayton late last year, one of my goals was to find this very same illustration. Sadly, the archive itself seems to have been wholly moved (my understanding is that it’s been removed from the museum and transported onto the Air Force Base proper… meaning gaining entry is now extremely difficult), and all the artwork like this has been removed to parts unknown. Gah.
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This is why your publication is so important it the only one I know of that helps to preserve the ideas ot the past in such a way as to inform and fill in the details. Rather than just eye candy.
Those TAV-like designs in the upper left corner, the FSW designs, and the triangular designs catch my eye.
Those in the upper right corner are probably nuclear-powered (CAMALs ?).