May 112009
Described in a 1988 NASA-Langley technical memorandum, this was a design for a STOL (Short Take Off and Landing) fighter with supercruise ability. Clearly radar stealth was not a major concern; those slab-sided tailbooms and sharp 90-degree corner reflectors would have made a mockery of that idea. Details are lean… it’s unclear whether this is a NASA-Langley concept or an industry concept tested by NASA. The report references an earlier report describing the same aircraft in 1985.
It has two engines exhausting through a single two-dimensional (i.e. rectangular) vectoring nozzle. The wind tunnel model was built at one-tenth scale; dimensions are in inches.
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Scott, it is an internal NASA excercise.