XF-90
A heavy penetration fighter, the needle-nosed Lockheed XF-90 broke the sonic barrier 15 times. Nonetheless, the engines did not give the expected thrust, even with afterburners. The XF-90 lost out to McDonnell's reconfigured XF-88 Voodoo in the Air Force design competition of May 1961.
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