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	Parasite fighter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A parasite fighter is a parasite fighter aircraft intended to be carried into a combat zone by a larger aircraft, such as a bomber.
		Parasite fighters have never been highly successful and have seldom been used in actual combat.
		The first bombers to carry parasite fighters did so as part of experiments carried out in the Soviet Union by Vladimir Vakhmistrov from 1931 onwards.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Parasite_fighter (322 words)

	Parasite fighter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A parasite fighter is a fighter aircraft intended to be carried into a combat zone by a larger aircraft, such as a bomber.
		Projects for this type were designed to overcome the massive disparity in range between bombers and their escort fighters.
		The Imperial Airship scheme envisaged an airship carrying 5 fighter aircraft but the scheme died with the loss of the R101.
	www.airandspace.org /encyclopedia/Parasite_fighter (367 words)

	Russian Aviation Page: Vakhmistrov's Zveno
		Number of fighters (both biplanes and monoplanes) were either attached to a bomber on the ground or engaged and disengaged in-flight.
		TB-3 was flown by Stephanovskii and I-Z by Stepanchenok.
		Bomber was flown by Stefanovskii and fighters by Budakov and Nikishin.
	aeroweb.lucia.it /~agretch/RAFAQ/Zveno.html (650 words)

	parasite aircraft - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		A parasite aircraft is an aircraft which is carried underneath, and air launched by a mothership aircraft.
		The first use for parasite aircraft was in 1918, when the British used a Sopwith Camel, flying from an airship.
		As fighter capabilities increased, this role was seen as less and less necessary.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/parasite-aircraft (196 words)

	Lockheed XF-90
		One proposal for the solution to the escort fighter range problem was for the bombers to tow their escorting fighters into the combat zone and release them when their protection was needed.
		Other proposals revived the parasite fighter concept of the 1930s, this time with jet fighters operating in parasite fashion from the bellies of large bombers.
		The Lockheed penetration fighter project was completely redesigned, and the design which finally emerged was the Model 90, which featured 35-degree sweptback wings, a sharply-pointed nose, and two Westinghouse J34 axial-flow turbojet engines mounted side-by-side in the rear fuselage and fed by side-mounted air intakes.
	home.att.net /~jbaugher1/p90.html (1558 words)

	RenegadeWare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Parasite Queen is the starting unit of the Parasites and is unique in her colony.
		A Parasite Princess is much like the Parasite Queen, but is smaller and cannot birth as many units as the Queen can, nor is she as strong.
		The Parasite Fighters are the main attack unit of the Parasites.
	www.renegadeware.com /games_supper_parasite.htm (298 words)

	Parasite aircraft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An example of a parasite aircraft is the Boeing X-43 being dropped from under the wing of a B-52 Stratofortress.
		The first use for parasite aircraft was in 1916, when the British used a Bristol Scout, flying from a Felixtowe Porte Baby, a giant flying boat of its time.
		Royal Air Force Trials of DH 53 Hummingbird light planes launched and recoverd by the airship R33 (1924), followed by equipping the airship with two Gloster Grebe fighters (1925).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parasite_aircraft (312 words)

	Supercars.net - WWII Arado E.381 parasite-fighter
		This first design of the Arado E.381 parasite-fighter was to be carried aloft by the Arado 234C-3 four-engine jet bomber.
		After being released by the carrier aircraft, the fighter started its attack and then glided to a landing on its skid.
		It was heavily armored, powered by a Walter HWK 109-509A-2 rocket engine and had one MK 108 30mm cannon with 45 rounds of ammunition.
	www.supercars.net /garages/Panzer/58v2.html (103 words)

	Parasite Fighters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Only problem was that fighters couldn't carry much fuel, so they often had only a few minutes of combat time over the target area; if they could reach the target in the first place.
		This specially made pocket fighter was intended to be carried inside a B-36 where it would be dropped from a hook, carry out its mission, and then return to the mother ship.
		The biggest problem, however, was that a fighter plane small enough to fit in a bomber was too small and slow to take on conventional fighter jets and as midair refueling technology developed the parasite fighter was quietly stuffed to the back of the cupboard.
	davidszondy.com /future/Flight/parasite.htm (358 words)

	F-85 McDonnell Parasite Jet Fighter
		The wartime problem was solved by the development of longrange escort fighters, but as the war was ending, the USAAF was beginning to develop bombers such as the Boeing B-50 and Convair B-36, whose range was three to five times greater than that of the bombers that had been used against Germany.
		The first 'parasite -ready' B-36 wasn't yet available, so the XF-85 test flights, that began on 28 August 1948, were conducted from a B-29 fitted with the 'trapeze' that was designed for the B-36.
		A small, egg-shaped aircraft with vertically-folding wings and triple vertical tail surfaces, the fighter was intended to be launched from and recovered by a retractable trapeze.
	www.fiddlersgreen.net /AC/aircraft/McDonnell-F85/info/info.htm (1161 words)

	HEALTH AND "PROBLEMS" OF MANY TYPES
		Parasites live off of the "life" of another body, feeding on the nutrients, cells, and organs, of the host.
		Parasites are often "mobile," moving to feed off of one area of the body and then to another.
		People are infected by parasites through our water sources, our food sources (especially if the people who handle our foods at restaurants are themselves infected), through our pets, and even through our infected children (children are the most easily infected).
	www.flora-source-probiotic.com /PARASITEKNOWLEDGE.htm (1942 words)

	Unreal Aircraft - Flying Forever - R.33 Parasite Fighter Experiments
		Prior to the US Navy's Skyhook parasite fighter experiments of the late 1920s-early 1930s, Germany had tested the parasite fighter concept on airships in the First World War, and the Royal Air Force had experimented with a DH.53 Hummingbird and Sopwith Camels on one of their airships, the R.33.
		The plan was to provide British airships with their own fighter defence.
		The discontinuance of the project was no doubt appropriate, given that the role of the airship in warfare was virtually over.
	www.unrealaircraft.com /forever/r33_parasite.php (175 words)

	Parasite Fighter
		Parasite Fighter (sinngemäß: parasitäres Jagdflugzeug) ist ein feststehender Begriff in der US-amerikanischen Militärluftfahrt.
		Dem Parasite Fighter wurde in diesem Programm nicht ausschließlich die Rolle des Begleitjägers zugedacht, sondern er sollte in feindlichem Gebiet eigene Aufgaben übernehmen, wie Aufklärung und der Bekämpfung von Sekundärzielen.
		Zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt ist jedoch noch nicht abzusehen, dass ein neues Parasite Fighter-Konzept verwirklicht wird.
	www.katastrophenalarm.de /Parasite_Fighter.html (947 words)

	THE GREAT PLANES Community
		The fighter, with its stub wings, is designed to be carried within the bomber´s fuselage.
		There have been parasite fighter projects in the past, but they were not successfull.
		As much as I know, they were never really successfull, because they could not reach the performance of normal fighters of their time, and it was very troublesome especially to catch them again by their motherships“.
	www.tgplanes.com /Public/Snitz/post.asp?method=ReplyQuote&REPLY_ID=2239&TOPIC_ID=278&FORUM_ID=1 (899 words)

	hobby_craft_grb-36
		By the way, FICON stands for fighter conveyor, one of the continuing methods explored in the forties and fifties to extend fighter escort coverage to the strategic bomber force.
		The B-36 was the first bomber large enough to consider an internally mounted fighter aircraft (as opposed to the research into wing tip attachment between fighter and bomber).
		Two XF-35 Goblin parasite fighters were designed and built by the McDonnell Aircraft Cooperation but proved too difficult to mate successfully in flight, and the program was dropped after a handful of test flights, the last which was in April of 1949.
	www.rollmodels.net /ninbox/airplanes/144hcb36/hobbycraft36.php (745 words)

	Strategic Air and Space Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In August 1947, the USAF had second thoughts about the parasite fighter's possibilities and restricted procurement to two prototypes.
		The trapeze was fully extended and the fighter gently lifted away from the trapeze yoke.
		The fighter's hook missed the trapeze by inches and the canopy struck the trapeze and shattered.
	www.strategicairandspace.com /collections/F-85.html (454 words)

	World Affairs Board - Who needs the USN?
		Naval attack fighters operating from the sea and conventional long-range bombers cannot survive penetration of a sophisticated IADS that denies access to all but the stealthiest platforms.
		In the late 1940s, the desire to incorporate the World War II lessons of fighter escort with the intercontinental bomber led to the development of the XF-85 Goblin parasite aircraft, designed to fit into the bomb bay of a B-36 using a trapeze assembly for launch and recovery.
		Stealth fighters weigh approximately 55,000 pounds, are 65 feet long and 16 feet high, and have a wingspan of 44 feet.
	www.worldaffairsboard.com /printthread.php?t=6527 (5225 words)

	Unreal Aircraft - Flying Forever
		To the military operator, with airships and bombers outranging their fighter escorts, some way of keeping escorting fighters with the larger craft had to be found.
		A concept pursued up until post-World War 2 was to carry escorting 'parasite' fighters attached to airships or bombers, for release when their services were needed.
		McDONNELL XF-85 GOBLIN - A first attempt by the United States to design a parasite fighter to be carried and launched by bombers for defence in hostile airspace.
	www.unrealaircraft.com /forever/forever.php (481 words)

	Bereznyak-Isayev BI rocket jet interceptor - history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Rocket jet propulsion for fighter aircraft was seriously studied in the USSR beginning in early 1930's.
		One of the most interesting fighter aircraft concepts was the I-4 "parasite fighter" design suggested by an accomplished Soviet aircraft designer Vladimir Vakhministrov.
		Also in 1931 an amphibious version (AGOS) of I-4 fighter was designed but was not finished until the summer of 1932, when the I-4 AGOS aircraft was first flown with six 82-mm RS-82 solid-fuel rocket boosters installed in the upper wing grouped in two arrays.
	www.aeronautics.ru /nws001/bi/history.htm (2769 words)

	WWII Fighter Ace-Bud Anderson's Biography Page
		Col Anderson is a WW II Triple Ace fighter pilot and a veteran military experimental test pilot.
		At Wright-Patterson AFB OH he was a fighter test pilot and later became Chief of Fighter Operations.
		Later he also conducted the initial development flights on the F-84 Parasite fighter modified to be launched and retrieved from the very large B-36 bomber.
	www.cebudanderson.com /biography.htm (635 words)

	Goleta Air and Space Museum: Flying Aircraft Carriers of the USAF: Project FICON
		If a fighter did succeed in climbing to the altitude of the RB-36, the lower wing loading of the RB-36 allowed it to turn tighter than the fighter could.
		It was clear that jet fighters with the ability to intercept the RB-36 would be entering service in the Soviet Air Force by the middle of the 1950s.
		It was proposed that strategic reconnaissance missions could be performed by tactical jet fighters that were launched from RB-36s near the borders of the target countries.
	www.air-and-space.com /ficon.htm (1610 words)

	Two Warfighters in One Package : Edwards Air Force Base (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A conventional RB-36F was stripped of most of its operational equipment and modified by the addition of a trapeze mechanism in the bomb bay for stowing, releasing, and retrieving the parasite aircraft.
		These validated the parasite operation as “tactically sound,” and recommended that a production RB-36 and a recon fighter based on the more advanced RF-84F be made available for operational suitability testing at the earliest possible date.
		The stowed fighter reduced the range of the B-36 by 5 to 10 percent.
	www.edwards.af.mil /moments/docs_html/56-04-27.html (608 words)

	F-85 XF-85 McDonnell Goblin Parasite Jet Fighter
		In theory, a B-36 penetrating enemy territory would carry its protecting fighter in the bomb bay.
		Although the XF-85 was successfully launched and flown from an EB-29B on several test flights, it was never successfully recovered in flight or flown from a B-36.
		The test program was canceled in late 1949 when mid-air refueling of fighter aircraft for range extension began to show greater promise.
	www.fiddlersgreen.net /AC/aircraft/McDonnell-F85/f-85.php (224 words)

	Goleta Air and Space Museum: Monstro and the Goblins
		The constraints were that the fighter had to be only sixteen feet long, and only five feet wide when stowed.
		Following the cancellation of the Goblin program, the Fighter Conveyer (FICON) program investigated the potential of carrying various models of the Republic F-84 in the bomb bay of a Peacemaker.
		From 1952 to 1956, the Fighter Conveyer (FICON) program investigated the potential of carrying various models of the Republic F-84 in the bomb bay of a Peacemaker.
	www.air-and-space.com /goblins.htm (774 words)

	An Idea whose time has yet to Come (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		If the enemy scrambles fighters to intercept the A40, the two "parasite" fighters can detach and meet the threat to shoot it down.
		The parasite fighters if undamaged could hook back up to the A40 or divert to a submarine aircraft carrier or surface ship to land.
		Bomber was flown by Stefanovskij and fighters by Budakov and Nikishin.
	www.geocities.com /usarmyaviationdigest/airborneaircraftcarriers.htm (15419 words)

	Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk -- Chapter 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Navy's small fighter concept did not ultimately prove successful, and the Sparrowhawk would have been abandoned along with its rivals had it not been for the appearance of an entirely new mission.
		While the airships were under construction, however, plans for a suitable fighter to be carried by them lagged.
		Although the F9C-2s were popularly regarded as defensive fighters, their principal mission was to act as scouts to extend the effective operating area of the mother ships, which were themselves used as scouts.
	www.csd.uwo.ca /~pettypi/elevon/baugher_us/f9c-01.html (1060 words)

	FS2004 Military Page 33
		This aircraft is an interception and the ground offensive fighter of a Swedish air force.
		The reflection of the airframe, the opening and shutting of the canopy, and the movement of the wheel etc. were added.
		The XF-85 parasite fighter was developed to protect B-36 bombers flying beyond the range of conventional escort fighters.
	www.simviation.com /fs2004military33.htm (639 words)

	What is a parasite fighter? - Answerbag.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A parasite fighter is a small fighter plane that is attached to a larger flying machine (like an airship or a bomber) and is "launched" when needed.
		It was used successfully in test drops and could be recovered by the "mother ship." But, the bombers entire bomb bay had to be removed to be able to handle the parasite fighter, thereby making the bomber useless in its main role as it served mainly as an airborne aircraft carrier for the parasite fighter.
		My father was a fighter pilot and they joked about the whole concept of the parasite fighter.
	www.answerbag.com /q_view.php/13031 (440 words)

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