This was Northop's prototype for the A-X project, this aircraft went up agianst everyone's favorite the Fairchild-Republic A-10 Warthog, Northop's design realtively conventional except for the fact it used jet engines that were based off helicopter jet engines, and it's resemblance to Sukhoi's Su-25 Frogfoot, besides that it was described to have "fighter like handling" and it could carry up to 16,000lbs of ordinance, though it lost to the A-10 and it was religated to NASA flight testing where it's engines were removed and were mated to a C-8 Buffalo aircraft as part of NASA-Boeing joint Quiet Short-haul Reserach Aircraft
Specifications
General Characteristics
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- Wingspan 66.7ft (20.3m)
- Length 77.5ft (23.6m)
- Height 20.2ft (6.2m)
- Empty Weight 24,939lbs (11,312kg)
- Loaded Weight 35,227lbs (15,979kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 1.339
- Wing Loading 34.7lbs/ft2 (169.6kg/m2)
- Wing Area 1,013.9ft2 (94.2m2)
- Drag Points 13052
Parts
- Number of Parts 206
- Control Surfaces 7
- Performance Cost 856
