1950s

  1. Grey Havoc

    Kenworth-Boeing gas-powered turbine truck

    Apparently the gas turbine in question (Model 502) was originally developed in response to a USN requirement, presumably on behalf of the USMC. I wonder what the intended vehicle was? https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2011/05/09/turbine-powered-oddities-no-466-the-see-through-kenworth-boeing...
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1950s boeing cold war gas turbine kenworth 500 series kenworth motor truck corporation united states united states marine corps united states navy
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Secret Army Projects
  2. Grey Havoc

    British Army Volkswagen Beetles

    Quick question: Does anyone know the official designation that the British Army and War Office used for the BAOR's Beetle saloons (initially referred to simply as the 'Volkswagen Saloon')? There seems to be some indication that other British Army commands and detachments in Western Europe may...
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1950s british army of the rhine british occupation zone cold war great britain late 1940s occupied germany staff car united kingdom west germany wolfsburg motor works
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    • Forum: Military
  3. Grey Havoc

    Airfix

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxaJgxXavc Note that this video was made before the current Covid-19 related model making renaissance had really gotten underway.
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1930s 1940s 1950s 1980s 20th century 21st century model making models toymaker united kingdom
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Found on the Internet
  4. Grey Havoc

    The Aurora, Revell, Monogram Models Story

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBgCRQ2wIvw
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s late 1940s model making models toymaker toys united states
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    • Forum: Found on the Internet
  5. hesham

    Britsih Specification EH.125D Helicopter

    Hi, in 1952,British Air Ministry issued a Specifiaction EH.125D to cover Percival P.74,and I am asking if there was any anther competitors. If there was,I can suggest Westland W.80,Saro P.508 and maybe Fairey also involved ?.
  6. Grey Havoc

    Naval Amphibious Craft Tracked eXperimental (NACT X)

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F_ZjytDqqE
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1950s admiralty cold war naval vehicle landing tracked experimental royal marines royal navy the armoured archives united kingdom vickers-armstrongs
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
  7. M

    Saracen in Canada?

    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...
  8. J

    Avro Weapon System 606 A (Interceptor version)

    Avro Weapon System 606 A (Interceptor version)
  9. J

    Avro Weapon System 606 A (Tactical bomber version)

    Avro Weapon System 606 A (Tactical bomber version)
  10. J

    Disney-von Braun XR-1 spaceplane

    Disney-von Braun XR-1 spaceplane
  11. JFC Fuller

    Rover Turboprops

    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...
    • JFC Fuller
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    • 1950s 1960s 1970s cold war gas turbine great britain united kingdom
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Propulsion
  12. Grey Havoc

    P-GEM (Princeton Ground Effect Machine)

    https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/256857.pdf
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1950s 1960s department of aeronautical engineering ground effect vehicle princeton university trecom u.s. army x-3
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Secret Army Projects
  13. Grey Havoc

    American Export Isbrandtsen Lines nuclear-powered container ships project (1964-68)

    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...
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1950s 33000-ton tanker aec american export isbrandtsen line atomic energy commission atomic ships atoms for peace cold war contract ma-1893 high speed container ships isbrandtsen co. maritime administration naval reactor nuclear powered vessels u.s. congress united states vietnam war
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
  14. V

    Giant Soviet nuclear powered flying boat

    In an interview with Discovery aired on the Planes That Never Flew episode about the WS-125, George Kerevan mentioned that the Soviet Union came up with a proposal for a nuclear-powered flying boat weighing 1,000 tons. The 1,000 ton flying boat had a wingspan over over 420 feet and four...
  15. A

    Rods from God / "Project Thor"

    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"...
    • antigravite
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    • 1950s 1980s cold war early 21st century late 20th century post-cold war space race strategic defense initiative united states united states air force
    • Replies: 274
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  16. GTX

    Blue Steel Developments

    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
    • GTX
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    • 1950s 1960s a.v. roe and company / avro alcm armstrong siddeley armstrong whitworth aircraft cold war cruise missile great britain ministry of supply nuclear battlefield or.1132 or.1159 raf bomber command raf strike command royal air force stand-off bomb united kingdom
    • Replies: 23
    • Forum: Secret Missile, Bomb and Gun Projects
  17. uk 75

    European Defence Force

    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...
  18. flateric

    Fairchild NEPA 'Studies of Fourteen Nuclear-Powered Airplanes' (1952)

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

    Fairchild C-119 Pick-A-Back with Sikorsky S-51 Helicopter

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

    Saunders Roe SR.53

    Pics , drawings ,models and book
    • Justo Miranda
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    • 1950s bundesmarine cold war early 1960s fleet air arm great britain interceptor kommando der marineflieger marineflieger royal air force royal navy saunders-roe west germany
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
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