This story fascinates me... It shows what can be done when you have little resource but a lot of creativity...
Unfortunately, the page which I took this article from had been saved onto my computer, and doesn't seem to be only any longer.
Only one forum topic (in Russian) deals with this...
Mil helicopters - Damaged Fenestron on the scrap heap at Tomolino 1992. I visited Mil & Kamov design bureaux and their test centres in 1992 - and the Mil 26 factory at Rostov-on-Don. Snapshot attached taken from the bus when entering the Mil test site. Article about visit in my memoir Two Up...
armeé de l'air
cold war
commandement des forces aériennes stratégiques
early1990s
force de dissuasion
forces aériennes stratégiques
late 1980s
sol-sol balistique stratégique
In 1990 Racal Marine teamed up with the China Shipbuilding Trading Company to offer a modernised Type 037 Hainan-class hull as a corvette with Racal radars (obviously!), European guns and A/S torpedoes and Chinese C-801 SSMs.
There were no takers.
I've been searching for quite a long time a reason(or reasons) for the UK, Canada and Norway to have dropped out of MIDS program in 1991, just before the signing of the MIDS PMOU. They were indeed a MIDS program members since phase one. Particularly interesting is the case of UK, since they were...
A case of some University of Maryland students re-inventing the Gemini, or pre-inventing the Dragon...
The proposed launch vehicle was the Delta II rocket.
Delta Advanced Reusable Transport (DART): An alternative manned spacecraft
DART: Delta Advanced Reusable Transport. An alternate manned...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5laK2JopaVE&feature=player_embedded
NASA: Satellite won't fall on US (msnbc Cosmic Log)
<a href="http://www.space.com/12899-nasa-falling-satellite-uars-space-junk-infographic.html"> <img...
Space transfer concepts and analysis for exploration missions. Implementation plan and element description document. Volume 1: Major trades. Book 1: Draft final
Abstract:
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19930013159_1993013159.pdf
Space transfer concepts and analysis for...
OK. Gents. I finally found my old pictures from the heady days of the early 90's when DENEL had a project for everything.
Anyone have any more information about this NOTAR style testbed that was show (static display only) at one of the 1'st SA Arms expo's?
I only have what's in the photos
Screen capture with rare view of YF-22NX (second, PW F-119 equipped prototype) with nose cone removed, towed from hangar after cosmetiс restoration of airframe, damaged by PIO crash in April 1992.
I am looking for images of the Oriflamme and Radiance French space launcher projects. There are short descriptions at http://www.astronautix.com/lvfam/winged.htm , but no pics. Obviously also any other further info would be appreciated.
This is from Seapower and Space, pg 241, by Norman Friedman. Does anyone have more information on this missile? According to the lexicon hosted on FAS.org it was originally known as Ballistic Intercept Missile.
I was wondering if anybody knows anything more about the NATF & pre-NATF Tomcat replacement proposals.The only one i know about is the Lockheed swing-wing NATF proposal that is based on the F-22.I've read that they chose swing-wings because it was the easiest way to offer F-22 performance and to...
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