1950s

Check out this interesting photo: https://ingeniumcanada.org/ingenium/collection-research/collection-item.php?id=1970.1466.001 It purports to be the world's first mortar-locating radar, apparently a Canadian invention and produced at CAL's purpose-built plant in Scarborough (now row houses...

Avro Weapon System 606 A (Interceptor version)

Avro Weapon System 606 A (Tactical bomber version)

Disney-von Braun XR-1 spaceplane

Rover developed gas turbines for automotive applications, development continued after the marque's absorption by Leyland in 1967. In addition to automotive applications Rover also produced gas turbines for APU applications, as described here. They also went as far as testing them in aircraft...

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/256857.pdf

This was a project intended to provide three (correction, four) atomic powered high speed container ships for use on Essential Foreign Trade Route No. 12, between the U.S. Atlantic Coast and the Far East. The ships would have used the AEC Maritime Reactor, a clean sheet gas-cooled reactor design...

Hi. For some whatever reason, a timely article was pu(bli)shed by Sputnik, a Russian media, dealing with an "old" concept of non-nuclear space-based, orbiting kinetic space-to-ground weapon, sometimes described as "Rods from God"...

Hi folks, Couldn't find a thread appropriate so here goes: Blue Steel MkII full-scale mock up fitted with wing-tip-mounted Bristol Siddeley ramjets: Source Blue Steel Viper variant full-scale mock up: Source

Not trying to provoke either side of the current debate but I am old enough to remember a time when the 6 original members of the European Community discussed the setting up of a full blown EDF in the 1960s. It was never a runner politically but had it been, I imagine the following equipment...

Found at OSTI http://www.osti.gov/scitech/biblio/969600-studies-fourteen-nuclear-powered-airplanes

Hi, http://archive.aviationweek.com/image/spread/19550221/21/2/zoom

Pics , drawings ,models and book

Pics and drawings Post-1

Might maybe be of interest... US Bomber Projects #16 is an extra-sized volume covering the evolution of the B-52. Designs covered include: Boeing Model 444 A: A late war turboprop heavy bomber Boeing Model 461: An early postwar turboprop heavy bomber Boeing Model 462: A large six-turboprop...

Hi, the Britsih engineering Randolph S. Rae which worked for USAF,and invented the REX,it was a hydrogen powered engine with new system,for recce and spy aircraft, and that was in 1954. The Aviation Historian 08

Let's start with the Douglas Model 1364 (January, 1956), which was studied at the Douglas plant in Long Beach, California. The proposal model was made at the manufacturer's in-house model shop (Santa Monica Plant). Shown here when the design was first revealed (B&W photo), and as it survives...

http://www.navyhistory.org/2014/01/remembering-admiral-kinnaird-mckee/ Note that the above excerpt implies that the X-1 was, at least briefly, a commissioned vessel. Attached photos via wikimapia.org.

SARO projects for rescue lifeboat and Sea Raider commando attack gliders. Descriptions and small 3-views from Tagg-Wheeler From Sea to Air; larger drawings from Wheeler From River to Sea. P.108 1949 Two versions of a glider, the hull of which detached to serve as a lifeboat. The Mk.II version...

During the 1960s San Antonio Aviation Company built a light single-seater under the name Palomino. The aircraft was registered N40J. It seems this aircraft was later modified as a tandem two-seater by Palomino Aircraft Associates, retaining the N40J registration. Again later (1994) it...