RE: Violett Pattern Prototype - Blast from past
Great info, Art! Always dreamed about the Skyhawk as a kid.
The plane I'm looking for info on isn't the Sundowner, but what LOOKS like a predecessor of the Bobcat design. It is only labelled as "Violett's futuristic pattern bird".
It is in the first two pictures in this thread.
The Sundowner was a "sorta" F-4 Phantom, with a Scozzi fan slung under it. This one has a mid/top mount fan at rear of fuse/wing, between two vertical fins. It was flown (and pretty well smacked) at the '74 Nats. I've only been able to find two pictures, and was wondering if anyone else had seen it in a magazine, or at the Nats and has pics. I did email BVM, and if I remember right it was a Jason (Schulman?) that informed me that BV himself couldn't remember!