The North American A-5 Vigilante would be developed as a carrier ... The development of this unique model started back in 1954 as a private venture undertaken by the manufacturer, which believed ...

Yet although the Rapier never came to be, portions of its design lived on in a scaled-down aircraft that did reach production, the A-5 Vigilante (aka the A3J). Granted, only 167 A-5s were ever ...