Convair Kingfish

[Viggen]

Browsing Wikipedia when I came across this. The Convair Kingfish. I'd never heard of it before. Looks real ahead of its time. Looks a lot more like a bomber than a recon aircraft. Pity it never left the drawing board

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_Kingfish

 

 

 

[serverandenforcer]

Looks like something from Star Wars or Wing Commander

[+DWCAce]

Interesting

[exhausted]

Never left the drawing board that we know of, that is....

 

It really looks like some Area 51 stuff...

[Wraith27]

More pictures here - You must register to see it.

Edited April 22, 2010 by Ciacho

[shotdown]

Pity it never left the drawing board

 

 

Thanks to it never leaving the drawing board we have the Blackbird.

[Lexx_Luthor]

Interesting story in the new book Rainbow To Gusto, about stealth and the U-2 and the "follow on aircraft."

 

Kelly Johnson had zero interest in Stealth, so CIA went to Convair. So Johnson had to look into it.