Talk:FICON project

Bravo. Couple of Q, tho. Was RF-84H (hypersonic prop var) xam under B-36? Am I right FICON was obsoleted by U-2? And was XF-85 Goblin maj part FICON? Trekphiler 20:41, 6 December 2005 (UTC)


 * No, Thunderscreech was not part of the FICON project. I imagine B-36 crews would've been upset with all those supersonic rotating blades feet away from their shiny Peacemaker. :) U-2 was definitely a significant part of the deal with FICON cancellation. Difficulty with the docking procedure was another part of it, and several aircraft were damaged while attempting to dock. There is also some speculation of unknown (to me) veracity that FICON flights actually attempted real missions with poor results. If you want to go into conspiracy theories, you can try to find the fate of all the FICON-coverted RF-84K's to see if any are suspiciously missing (presumably lost in action). I've seen XF-85 mentioned both separately and as part of FICON, and I'm not 100% certain which is correct. Either way, XF-85 was so small and handled so poorly that it was all but useless. - Emt147 Burninate!  20:55, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

need for a revision
Shouldn't this article either get separated into two or three articles and at least be in chronological order? FWiW Bzuk (talk) 00:01, 25 August 2011 (UTC).
 * Chronological order, yes. More articles, no. Unless we can come up with twice or more the amount of information on each project I don't think separate articles are justified (just thinking of the overlap). The article isn't that big as it stands. The mayor of Yurp (talk) 00:41, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
 * The projects are so different and have no overlap that I would propose a Project FICON that deals specifically with the eventual parasite project that emerged as an operational element of SAC and the earlier Project Tip Tow/Tom Tom as a separate developmental "dead-end" project. As to information, I did a cursory review of my sources and could easily double the present article in terms of text size. How about if I create two sandbox articles before going any farther. My references include two books on the F-84, one on the B-36 as well as Bud Anderson's book on the earlier coupling projects. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 03:24, 25 August 2011 (UTC). See McDonnell XF-85 Goblin for a related article that I recently expanded. Bzuk (talk) 03:34, 25 August 2011 (UTC). ...and to add to the fun, the present article is rife with copyviols... Bzuk (talk) 04:08, 25 August 2011 (UTC).

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