1970s

I recently happened on a photo of a U.S. Navy tow target which I hadn't previously seen. Linked from the VC-2 squadron page of the A-4 Skyhawk Association website, it was accompanied by no explanatory text, only a short caption saying "1974: Ed Jennings tells us about the "FIGAT". As I was...

Is there anywhere in this fine forum which gives more indepth information into the proposed Saab 37E and Saab 37X variants of the Viggen? The Saab 37E was proposed as a Lockheed F-104 replacement for European NATO airforces in 1975; While the Saab 37X was proposed to Norway in 1967–68. Ive...

The first of the "Thousand Astronomical Unit" space probes designed from the late 70's into the 80's. Nuclear electric propulsion would send the craft on a fifty-year mission into interplanetary space to test technologies for a future true interstellar mission, for deep-space science and to map...

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/usaf-northrop-harassment-weapons-1817855401

This is a spin-off of my Fictional Warships thread. The most recent novel I have added is "Poseidon's Shadow" by A . P. Kobryn, a 1979 technothriller which has a brief appearance by a stealthy successor to the SR-71 'Blackbird' which the novel describes as a "...distant predecessor..." It's...

Artist's impression of Boeing Arctic Surface Effects Vehicle concept circa 1974. Source: http://www.boeingimages.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=2JRSN2PXTVFZGH&SMLS=1&RW=1850&RH=906#/SearchResult&VBID=2JRSN2PXTVFZGH&SMLS=1&RW=1850&RH=906&PN=3

G’day gents I’ve stumbled across this web site http://doktorkurgan.livejournal.com/36798.html?thread=61630 which depicts a prototype (in 1977) SPAAG, which from what I can make out (via translation), combines a 25mm cannon, with the chassis of the XM-701 MICV! It appears it’s a response to the...

Hopefully this is the right forum for this. A bit of browsing on the Flight International archive yields this gem from 1974: http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1974/1974%20-%201113.PDF Then, five years later, http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1979/1979%20-%200470.PDF The...

Hi, has anyone a more info about Mitsubishi XMH-4M helicopter project ?. http://www.geocities.co.jp/Technopolis/2415/sato.html

http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-internets-save-the-date-a-tiny-item-in-a-ucla-stu-898064971 http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-arpanet-1969-1989-in-one-gif-1258090851

I know this is a well covered subject but I was wondering if there is anywhere an RN document from 1965 or 1966 showing what its planned 1975 or so carrier fleet was supposed to look like. Based on what has been posted here already here is a stab at what I think was intended Fleet Carriers...

Hi all: one of the worst problem getting older is memory. Probably I said that before but... I don't remember... During the Seventies I saw a publication (perhaps a Japanes "AiReview" or "Koku-Fan" but could be also an European one) dealing with Japanese Self-Defense Air Force fighters with...

Triggered by the Lippisch developments, that were tested with the X-113 on Lake Constance, Dornier started research in that field during the 1970s, too, called "Stauflügelgerät" (. One project for a commercial transport was the P.477 for up to 27 passengers. Another one, desigantion unknown...

This was a US Coastguard project from around the early '70's: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/755767.pdf

I've done a search. and I'm surprised that there's no thread for this... Following the partial replacement, in 1959, of the British Ministry of Supply by the Ministry of Aviation, the iconic 'Rainbow Code' system for projects was also replaced, by a new system of two letters, and three numbers...

Once again a question derived from “The Pentagon Paradox. The development of the F-18 Hornet” by James Perry Stevenson (ISBN 1557507759), Shrewsbury, 1993 'In Col. Everest E. Riccioni, USAF brief on his “Falcon Brief”, which had acquired the title, “Advanced Fighter Aircraft Study – Avenging...

I produced this scenario a while back, and am posting a link to it here for the ideas to be kicked around: http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/Alternative%20RN.htm

http://s3.e-monsite.com/2010/12/31/38909267terrastar-marginal-amphibian-of-lockheed-pdf.pdf Source: http://www.offroadvehicle.ru/AZBUCAR/Lockheed/Lockheed%20txt.html http://www.amphibiousvehicle.net/amphi/Lb_Lz.html...

I am trying to get to the truth behind the story about the Type 42 ending up with a hull shorter than the designers wanted. The sources that I have available are contradictory. Norman Friedman states that there is no indication that the Type 42 was shortened from the a preferred 434ft (the...

The Houston AIAA section has published a 4-page article I put together on the Conroy "Virtus," a twin-fuselage heavy lift aircraft built from B-52 parts meant to serve as the Space Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. You can download it (in the March/April 2012 issue of Horizons) for free here...