Text and photos present the history of the Navy plane, F3D Skyknight, which surfaced in the 1950s after surviving seemingly insurmountable design problems.
... F6D Missileer . The Missileer would have carried eight long - range Bendix Eagle AAMs , along with powerful airborne radar . The F6Ds would have acted as airborne SAM sites , and would have been placed hundreds of miles ahead of a ...
... F6D Missileer, with two fuel-efficient, non- afterburning TF30 turbofans developed for the project but later used in the F-111. The Missileer's side-by-side cockpit configuration was reminiscent of that of the A-6 Intruder, in which it ...
... F6D - 1 Missileer Its mission was defined as that of Fleet Air Defense ( FAD ) , and the Douglas F6D - 1 Missileer was the design the Navy selected to do the job in the early 1960s . The Navy felt the threat was from Soviet strike ...
... F6D Missileer The Navy has awarded a $ 26 - mil- lion contract to the Bendix Corpora- tion for continued development and evaluation of the Eagle missile system . Eagle will be a long - range , air - to- air , interceptor guided missile ...
... F6D Missileer program was cancelled in part because it was viewed as too costly. The subsonic F6D aircraft, armed with long-range high-speed air-to-air missiles, was slated to replace the F-4 Phantom and the F-8 Crusader in the role of ...
... F6D Missileer , a " slow fighter " emphasizing long - range radar , missile carrying , and high - altitude , long- endurance loiter capability rather than supersonic speed . The new Eagle missile contract was awarded at the same time ...
... F6D Missileer , 207 Doyle , Joe , 88 Dreyer , Gregory , 294-95 Dreyer , Gwen , 292-95 , 357 , 404 Driscoll , Bill , 236 Dunai Lorenz , Caroy , 393 , 395 Dunleavy , Richard , 308 , 320 , 325 , 326 , 334-35 , 340 , 342 , 351 , 372 , 378 ...
... F6D Missileer, data, 203–204 F9F Cougar, data, 137–138 F9F Panther, data, 28, 30 F11F.
... F6D Missileer missile carrier. It was later adapted with an afterburner to be the world's first production of afterburning turbofan to power the F111 and the F-14A Tomcat 1964 P&W Aircraft STF200 experi- mental turbofan It delivered 140 ...