During a dig at the Boeing Historical Archive, an artists concept was brought to light. Printed from microfilm and then photographed (digital photo shown below) was a picture of an aerodynamically simple aircraft. Written in pen on the image was "Rocket plane Launched on V-2." That is the only hard information about this aircraft available at this time. The printed page was in a bundle of unrelated papers that had come from the North American Aviation archives, being transferred to Boeing. The image shows at least two machine gun ports in the nose of a sleek aircraft with highly swept wings; based on the aircraft layout, it probably dates from the late 1940's. Archivists believe that it is related to the later "Navajo" projects, which is reasonable.
Author's photo of artwork (from Boeing Historical Archives)
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