Subject: Number Eighty-Nine in the Series--Northrop F-89 Scorpion

From: [email-masked]
Date: 29 Sep 93 16:07:47 GMT

>From [email-masked]

The F-89G was a proposed advanced version of the F-89D.  It was similar 
in many respects to the F-89F, but it retained the pair of 7200 lb.st.  
Allison J35-A-35 afterburning engines used by the late F-89D.  

The F-89G was to have carried the Hughes MA-1 fire control system that 
was being developed for the XF-106 project, and was to be armed with 
Falcon air-to-air missiles.  The F-89G never progressed any farther 
than the design stage.  

Sources:

  United States Military Aircraft Since 1909, Gordon Swanborough
  and Peter M. Bowers, Smithsonian, 1989.
  
  F-89 Scorpion in Action, Aircraft Number 104, Larry Davis and 
  Dave Menard, Squadron/Signal Publications, 1990.

  Fighters of the United States Air Force, Robert F. Dorr and David 
  Donald, Temple Press Aerospace, 1990.

  The American Fighter, Enzo Angelucci and Peter Bowers, Orion, 1987.

  American Combat Planes, Third Enlarged Edition, Ray Wagner,
  Doubleday, 1982.

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