[tophat9000]

O I don’t know here is a pretty aircraft of the late 50's early 60's that never got built the mach 3+ North American F108 Rapier… this is also the original aircraft the Phoenix missile system and radar was designed for (that latter went in the Tomcat)

[Centurion2000]

Now THAT was one mean looking fighter. I would have loved to see it get built too.

[Pukin Dog]

North American was never very creative. They took the basic airframe from the RA-5C Vigilante, tossed a cranked-arrow wing on it with updated J-57s and called it 'modern'. That sucker would have turned like a B-52, and it's job was escort to the XB-70. Too bad it never hung around long enough to see what it could actually do.

[Chode]

i thought the SR-71 was the first one to carry the Pheonix???