The McDonnell XF-85 Goblin has been called the most bizarre aircraft ever built. In an era of spirited aircraft exploration, the US Army Air Forces approved the creation of a parasite jet fighter designed to eject out of a Convair B-36 Peacemaker to combat interceptor attackers and protect its mother ship. The fighter would then return and dock back into the bomber. The outlandish concept was conceived as far back as the 1930s, but the project resurfaced at the end of World War II. A new crop of