McDonnell XF-85 Goblin Pics

[ACarey]

Don't know if these have been posted.

[Clifford Bossie]

Interesting timing, the War Eagles newsletter just published an article on the F-85.

Thanks for posting those photos!

Both airframes exist, one in the NMUSAF and the other in the Strategic Air & Space Museum.

[ACarey]

Two more.

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[The Inspector]

Right near the end of free wheeling, free thinking designers willing to try anything to gain that tiny advantage like tail sitting turboprop fighters, flamboyant car designs with huge tailfins and tons of chrome now it's all same old, same old 'your new car/fighter looks like a bar of soap just like that one over there'.

[ACarey]

Right near the end of free wheeling, free thinking designers willing to try anything to gain that tiny advantage like tail sitting turboprop fighters, flamboyant car designs with huge tailfins and tons of chrome now it's all same old, same old 'your new car/fighter looks like a bar of soap just like that one over there'.

A time when people were rewarded for being a visionary.

[ACarey]

More.

[The Inspector]

unlike now where you are regarded with suspicion for showing vision or having an original thought?

'We have places for your type'

[gale_dono]

There is a fine line betwixt visionary and nutcase. Most of these designs were firmly in the nutcase category, cf the XF-84H.

People with ideas have always been regarded by some as off-kilter, it's a survival instinct. If killing the mammoth with spears has worked for the last three generations why risk starvation by using this newfangled atlatl thing? The flipside is that you don't really get out of the trees without the first one who tries to walk.