XF-85: Dwip! Zoom! Splat!
Possibly the oddest X-plane; when the B-36 needed to get a escort fighter for cover in the middle of Ust-Yutsk, Siberia, there’s a problem…until out of the bomb bay pops the tiny F-85 Goblin, terror of the skies, to be picked up through a hooking system and pulled back in. (see youtube of the testing)
Problems up the booboo with the plane, most especially in regard to the re-hooking of the lil’ bugger. Lots of splatting. The Air Force gave up on it, and sent the test craft to museums.
