Dec 172009
Tenth in the series of reconstructed drawings from Paul Suhler’s book “From RAINBOW to GUSTO.” This is the Cherub 2 (A-3) as drawn by Dan Zuck. This is Figure 62(a). This particular drawing has a Source Grade of four: 
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It’s odd that Johnson would go for that shape of intakes for the wingtip engines; he wasn’t partial to that concept when Convair was going to put it on the Kingfish, liking the simplicity of the cone-in-cylinder approach more than the intake ramps approach.