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...
May 29, 1968 hit the News that Charles DeGaulle die in a Helicopter crash near Baden-Baden, Germany
The unstable Political scene and struggle for his successor and let to a civil war.
Between the right wing, conservative and Army against Left wing socialist, Communist, labor unions and students...
I thought it might be helpful to tease out this aspect from the British centric discussion.
Originally the West Germans intended to replace their M48s with the MBT 70, a joint production
with the United States which ground to a halt because of complexity and high cost.
German sources on the...
The Challenger tank was arguably born in about 1970 when the UK, impressed by the performance of their BURLINGTON (Chobham) armour, but concerned that a wholly new MBT would not be in service before about 1985, proposed the development of a near-term improved tank using some existing components...
1970s
british army
cold war
fighting vehicles establishment
fvrde
great britain
mbt
military vehicles and engineering establishment
nuclear battlefield
tank
tank design
tanks
An earlier thread by me on amphibious shipping got well and truly trashed into a discussion on the merits of the Scimitar! Never mind, here goes, this is purely for info.
I found a cutting from an old Maritime Naval mag in the 80s which showed a Swan Hunter design for a LPH looking like a...
Avico Press offers a reprint of extremely rare, in-house Ilyushin Design Bureau 44-page album, fully dedicated to this rare bird, a Soviet analogue of Northrop A-9 in terms of unlucky fortune.
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Over the years NASA has run various systems engineering courses with universities around the United States. In the mid-1970 a group associated with Rice University was asked to design a Dual-Mode rover for use in the 1980's.
The selected design was for a two man, tracked rover.
Manned/Unmanned...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_satellite
This is a thread for any information or images in regards to the large scale plan developed from the 70's through 80's in regards to the STS (Space Transportation System) being used to build the massive space stations in orbit attached to the...
In this months Spaceflight, there is an article on Starships of the Future (mostly Daedalus and Icarus) that mentions a suggestion by G H Stein published in Analog, October 1973 called "A Program for Star Flight".
'A full program of exploration was proposed which would utilise a fleet of no...
The space shuttle project thread, http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,1928.0, had a brief discussion of ideas to put passenger modules in the cargo bay. I thought it might be interesting to try and capture some more details in a separate thread.
I believe some concepts were...
J-13 develop by SAC(Shenyang Aircraft Corporation) in 70s,This blogger(Rainbow Bear) is the authors of old J-13's CG.
Ten years later, he interviewed several designers, re-produced J-13 of the CG, and write an article of the J-13 project.
part1...
To reply no. 55 by Aerofranz, I misidentified the illustration's top sensor carrier as the Bell SeaPig. It's actually the SeaKat, still from Bell Aerospace. I apologize for the error. Attached are a couple views of a SeaKat factory model. I would be grateful for any info about this little-known...
I have finished some simple drawings of US destroyer designs from the 1960s and 1970s. The drawings are based on sketches and artist renderings found in Norman Friedman's book "US Destroyers An Illustrated Design History". I find the nuclear frigate design (Typhoon) very interesting.
Fishjay
1960s
1970s
anti-air warfare
anti-submarine warfare
anti-surface warfare
area air defence
buships
cold war
destroyer
dlgn
frigate
frigates
navsea
navships
nuclear battlefield
nuclear powered vessels
united states navy
In a e-book 'TUO MAO: THE OPERATIONAL HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE’S LIBERATION ARMY' I have information on a very interesting Chinese AFV:
And below you'll find two photos of both the versions of the WZ141, which I've just googled.
Perhaps somebody knows more on the subject. Any further info would...
During 1970/71, the Norvegian Aker Group studied concepts for an icebreaking tanker with the capability of year round operation under Artic conditions. Three concepts were considered: a conventional hull icebreaker (IBT) and a couple of semi-sumersible concepts (SSIT).
Source: Aviation & Marine...
Photographs of Fairchild ESV (Experimental Safety Vehicle).
Source: From the Archives at Grumman Memorial Park Calverton, Long Island, New York or The Cradle of Aviation Museum, Garden City, Long Island via Warbird Information Exchange forum...
1960s
1970s
aerospace industry
automotive history
department of transport
department of transportation
dot experimental safety vehicle program
fairchild hiller
fairchild republic
national highway safety administration
republic aviation division (fairchild hiller)
united states
us aerospace sector
1970s
aerial surveillance
boeing
cold war
drone
hale
high altitude long endurance
rpv
strategic reconnaissance
teledyne ryan
teledyne ryan aeronautical company
united states
united states air force
unmanned air vehicle
1970s
1980s
cold war
deep sea operations
deep submergence vessel
nuclear powered vessels
oceanographic research
underwater search and recovery
united states
united states navy
1970s
air launched cruise missile
cold war
glcm
ground launched cruise missile
nuclear battlefield
submarine-launched cruise missile
u.s. army
united states
united states air force
united states army
united states navy
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