The two-ton fighter weighed less than half the weight of the F-80 jet he had practiced hook-up approaches with earlier. Its manufacturer called it the “Goblin”—and by looks alone ...

The Goblin measured just 15 feet in length, and with the wings folded up for transport was only five feet wide, making it the smallest jet fighter ever built. It was what’s known as a ...

This egg-shaped jet lacked landing gear and relied on a hook to attach back to its mothership after missions. -Despite decent handling and a theoretical speed of 650 mph, the Goblin faced ...

flying many early jet aircraft. Schoch rode in the XF-85 in the extended and tethered position under the bomber without the Goblin’s engine started to get a feel for the aircraft. The first ...

By 1947, McDonnell Aircraft was able to build two prototypes of the X-85, a tiny jet with a rounded fuselage and a three-fin stabilizer on its rear. The XF-85, now called the Goblin, was powered ...

It was (and still is) the smallest fighter jet ever. The Goblin was small because it was designed to be deployed from the cramped bomber bay of a B-36 via a trapeze system. It was intended to act ...

French inventor Franky Zapata successfully flew across the English Channel on a jet-powered hoverboard. Zapata develops hydroelectric jet technologies and products. This version used five small jet ...

The internet, of course, quickly cottoned on to the fact that Zapata was about as close to a real life Green Goblin as we're ever going to get. But Zapata is far from done. With flying through ...