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All Weather Super Fury, Bell Supersonic Aircraft, MD Stealth

Tue May 03, 2011 11:53 pm

New articles up at http://retromechanix.com/ include a feature on the proposal for the North American All Weather Super Fury (an evolution of an earlier navalized F-100 proposal) from 1954:

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It features 78 high resolution images, most previously unpublished. We also have an article on the Bell Supersonic Research Test Aircraft proposal of 1954:

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...and an article on the McDonnell Douglas Quiet Attack Aircraft proposal of 1974, an early attempt at stealth:

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All articles feature previously unpublished, high resolution images and are based on primary documents found in the National Archives. There is more interesting original content to come in the weeks ahead, so please visit frequently!

-Jared
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