Sep 112011
Two variants of the same piece of art. These were scanned from photos of the actual paintings; one is clearly cruder than the other, and probably represents a preliminary “sketch” in advance of the final piece.
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CG placement is going to critical on something like that, and I would have expected nose and tail “puffer pipes” to aid in pitch control, but it seems to do that via vanes in the turbofan exhaust.
Here’s some patent drawings of it:http://www.combatreform.org/VTOLgrumman698lineart.jpg
http://www.combatreform.org/VTOL698coolnoseopenandrearramp.jpg
And one doing a mid-air pickup of a downed pilot in his parachute:
http://www.combatreform.org/VTOLgrumman698midairrecovery.jpg
It made the cover of Popular Science magazine:
http://books.google.com/books?id=z7nkfLrLoMsC&pg=PA71&dq=march+1981+grumman&hl=en&ei=HK1tTvbEHa-lsQLX57C-BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=true
Regarding picking the pilot up in mid-air; I’d be concerned about botching the approach and sucking him into the fan duct intake… but the big question is…if they could shoot the jet he was in down, what chance does your little VTOL have in that air defense environment?
Imagine trying that concept a few thousand feet over Baghdad at night sometime.
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