While waiting for Orionblamblam posts I'd like to post this beast from Hiller
(Vertical Challenge. The Hiller Aircraft Story from Jay P. Spenser. ISBN 0-295-97203-3)
Formally proposed in 1965, it was designed to retrieve spent 200 ton Saturn V booster first stages. This tip-jet powered helo had...
Reading 'Wings on my Sleeve' by Capt Eric 'Winkle' Brown later I discovered that the RN in the 1960s had shortlisted two new ASW helicopters to equip the CVA-01 to replace the Gannet.
The choice was either the Seaking or the Chinook. He saw advantages in the Chinook, it could use its dipping...
Just to follow up the earlier thread on Blue Water I can point you to couple of sources which should be available in old libraries and Amazon.
A book published in the 60s in two separate editions, one in about 1962-3 and the other in about 1967 called British Army Vehicles and Equipment...
1960s
1970s
1980s
air defence
air defense command
central intelligence agency
cold war
interceptor
lockheed
skunk works
strategic air command
strategic defence
strategic reconnaissance
united states
united states air force
Following on from UK75's Post on a VTOL Lutwaffe 1975 i was wondering if anybody had the dimensions for the VJ-101 D ?. I can find stuff on-line for the B, C and E but not for the D >:(
In this Lockheed advertisment the AH-56 is shown with an additional outline, giving
a deeper fuselage and it is advertised to be the basis for a transport for up to 30
passengers or as a ASW helicopter.
Are there any other pictures, drawings or photos of mock-ups of these versions ?
Does anyone have any information, design designations, drawings and specifications on the designs submitted in the 1958 US Navy competition, that lead to the Lockheed P-3A Orion Anti-Submarine/Maritime Patrol Aircraft being declared winner?
Regards
Pioneer
1960s
armoured engineer vehicle
armoured recovery vehicle
armoured vehicle-launched bridge
bundeswehr
cold war
combat engineer vehicle
deutsches heer
early 1970s
spaag
united states
united states army
west germany
In 1955, the US Army issued a requirement for the development of a next generation gas turbine-powered medivac helicopter
The winner of this competition would be awarded to Bell with their Model 204, then designated as the XH-40, and later again in 1962 it was changed to UH-1 Iroquois.
I have...
A supersonic bomber project out of Britain. This was the first model I mastered for Fantastic Plastic.
http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/Avro730CatalogPage.htm
1960s
a.v. roe and company / avro
alternate history
avro 730
bomber
cold war
great britain
model
nuclear battlefield
raf bomber command
royal air force
strategic reconnaissance
Giants of the Sky by Bill Gunston
ISBN 1-85260-258-9
LOCKHEED MARTIN C-5 GALAXY: WarbirdTech 36
In 1960 the USAF launched Project Forecast which called for the world's biggest logistic transport, the CX-4, in the 600,000 lb category. It should be a jet. The only study I know comes from...
The Mohawk (OV-1) Society has an illustration, originally in their newsletter, of Grumman's COIN derivative of the Mohawk on their website, though it takes a spot of digging to find it. I did copy it and will be glad to share (I cake it we can't attach picture files directly here). It looks...
1960s
chemical powered bomber
cold war
late 1950s
nuclear powered aircraft
nuclear powered bomber
strategic air command
united states
united states air force
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