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Tucked away in a National Air and Space Museum storage facility is this very large-scale plexiglas model of the Grumman XF10F. But not only is the model very large and extremely spiffy, it represents an unbuilt variant. The XF10F was an early swing-wing plane; it failed to enter service due to the technology simply not being ready yet. But the display model shows a fixed-wing version, with no ability to sweep the wings in evidence.
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It takes a very close look at the model to see that it is the variable incidence design that was the penultimate iteration of Grumman’s first attempt at a swept wing jet fighter.
I saw that at Silver Hill when I went back to set up the ISS model, I took a bunch of pics, I liked those huge acrylic wing tips. There’s a Navajo/X-10 model in a backroom loaded with old models at the Planes of Fame here in nearby Chino
[…] than two years ago I posted photos of a large display model of yet another XF10F variant HERE. Ah, good times. Here, let me cut-and-paste some of that earlier […]