Planet 1/72 XF10F

The Westinghouse J40's only victim was the ambitious Grumman XF10F Jaguar (the other programs using the J40 managed to transition to other engines in its place*) with a variable sweep wing**:

I had published a few notes on the Planet 1/72 kit on my draft Tailhook Topics website:
http://tailhooktopics.blogspot.com/2012/06/xf10f-pictures.html

Navy Bird over on Britmodeler perservered where I hadn't and did the kit justice. His build series:
http://tailhooktopics.blogspot.com/2012/06/xf10f-pictures.html

This is a picture of Navy Bird's finished model:

For more finished pictures of, and notes on, his excellent model are here:
http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234942572-172-grumman-xf10f-1-jaguar/

*For more on the Westinghouse engine saga, see http://thanlont.blogspot.com/2011/03/from-hero-to-zero.html

** For more on the XF10F program, see http://thanlont.blogspot.com/2009/07/variable-incidence-wing.html and http://thanlont.blogspot.com/2009/01/it-seemed-like-good-idea-at-time.html or better yet, buy my book on U.S. Navy jet fighter development: http://www.amazon.com/U-S-Naval-Air-Superiority-Delevelopment/dp/1580071104