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Always Buzzing Around |
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Always Buzzing Around |
These are Historic Chance Vought Products, mostly .. Aircraft.
Photographs are taken from the on-line Vought, Heritage Museum.
Courtesy of:
"Vought Aircraft Industries."
This page covers the years: 1960 to 1969
Click here for more detail, by visiting the Vought on line Heritage Museum.
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Experimental XC-142A V/STOL The XC-142A was the largest successful V/STOL aircraft design with a tilt wing. Five were built; and these .. made 488 flights by 39 USAF, Navy, Army and civilian pilots. |
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XC-142A V/STOL Aircraft In the hovering mode, following a vertical takeoff. |
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XC-142A V/STOL Aircraft Time lapse photograph, showing transition of the aircraft from vertical take off to .. conventional flight. |
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A-7A Light Attack Aircraft The A-7A was an advanced attack aircraft capable of carrying heavy payloads. It had a Pratt & Whitney TF-30-P6 turbofan engine .. which gave it a long range. |
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A-7C Light Attack Aircraft The first 67 A-7Es had TF-30-p408 engines and were designated A-7Cs. |
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A-7C Light Attack Aircraft In flight over the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy. |
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A-7C Light Attack Aircraft Lined up with carrier deck for landing. |
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Boeing 747 During the summer of 1966, LTV/Vought was one of a number of independent contractors, which aided Boeing Aircraft in the Seattle based Pre-design phase of the 747 Jumbo Jet. The first of the wide bodied aircraft, and those to follow, were made for ... Pan American Airways. LTV/Vought contracted to design and build the aft body, and empennage. |
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Boeing 747 Following the pre Design phase, in Seattle, LTV/Vought completed the final pre production design of the aft body and empannage, in a specially provided Arlington, Texas facility. A new building was built on Marshall Street in south Arlington, for the manufacture of this part of the Boeing 747. |
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Scout was a standard four-stage launch vehicle used in various missions -- orbital probe and reentry by U. S. and others. Other versions, some Blue Scout, used varying stage combinations. |
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The XMGM-52A Lance Missile was a mobile supersonic liquid-fueled general support artillery system with inertial guidance. Shown ready for launching. |
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The XMGM-52A Lance Missile Shown following launch. |