Following a heavy reorganization of all Japanese aircraft topics, here is the breakdown of all Yokosuka-related threads this far:
Yokosho (Yokosuka) Navy Type 10 Reconnaissance Seaplane
Kusho (Yokosuka) Type 96 Carrier Attack (B4Y1)
Yokosuka 9-Shi Medium-Sized Flying Boat (H5Y)
Yokosuka 12-Shi...
20thcentury
empire of japan
imperial japanese navy
imperial japanese navy air service
interwar period
ministry of the navy (japan)
pre-world war i
pre-world war ii
world war i
world war ii
yokosuka kaigun kōshō
yokosuka naval air arsenal
yokosuka naval air technical arsenal
20thcentury
aerospace industry
apollo program
bunker ramo corporation
cold war
defense industry
early 21st century
icbm
nasa
national reconnaissance office
post-cold war
satellite
space probes
space race
spy sat
strategic defense initiative
thompson ramo wooldridge
trw
united states
united states air force
Brditschka, HB-Flugtechnik, and HB-Aircraft
The Brditschka corporate history is somewhat confused because of two separate lines of interest. Heinrich Wenzel Brditschka (born 1930) was interested in jewellery but was also an amateur aircraft builder. The first company was HW Brditschka OHG which...
Via MilitaryPhotos.net: http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/2015/03/20/sweden-invests-in-naval-capacity-and-baltic-sea/25093841/
The old MilitaryPhotos.net thread on the A26 (I thought we had one as well but I can't find it)...
Presenting Igor Sikorsky as the father of the helicopter is not so far-fetched as it may seem.
His 1939 tests of the VS-300 were hardly the first successful flights of a rotorcraft, but they marked the first time someone built a helicopter, flew it sufficiently high and long and repeatedly to...
So I found an engine program which wasn't on Astronautix by randomly reading documents on the US Space & Rocket Center's digital archives at UAH.
The document in question is:
Launch Vehicle Engines Project Development Plan MA001-A50-2H (1 January 1967)
And here's the link to download the...
The Titanic’s Role in Radio Reform
Original print article: http://spectrum.ieee.org/img/titanic-1333388528531.pdf
Related IEEE podcast:
The Titanic Launched a Century of Emergency Response Technologies
Before we got LCS, their were a number of concepts that involved the use of one or more motherships acting as the center for a large number fo smaller, and more expendable combat vessels-- can anyone point to a source for information and images about these earlier concepts?
To start this thread off, here's a recent article on Nuclear Merchant Ships (part of a series on the peaceful uses of Nuclear power). Includes information on the only four such ships to have been built so far: NS Savannah, USA; Mutsu, Japan; Sevmorput, Russia; and the Otto Hahn, Germany. Also...
Wings of Russia Studio has created a fascinating 18-part, so far, documentary series titled Wings of Russia that documents the history of Russian and Soviet aviation. The episodes are available on DVD in the Russian and English languages. Alas, it is only seems to be available for order in the...
Two artist's impressions of the Royal Navy's proposed future aircraft carrier (CVF) from 1999. These both show examples designed to operate STOVL aircraft.
Source: http://navy-matters.beedall.com/cvf2.htm
20thcentury
21st century
cold war
cold war ii
post-cold war
united states
united states army
united states marine corps
united states navy
war on terror
Three of a kind:-
Photo 1 The McCulloch MC-34 from the U.S.A.
Photo 2 The Chu CJC-3 from Formosa/Taiwan.
Photo 3 The AISA IH-49 from Spain.
Photo's 1 & 2 from The Aircraft of the World, Macdonald 1956.
Photo 3 from Aeroplano magazine No14.
Greetings All -
A friend passed along some scans from the San Diego Air & Space Museum which included a number of Convair designs I was not aware of. First off is the Model 103...
Enjoy the Day! Mark
Models of ekranoplan aircraft carrier and T-20A transport ekranoplan designed by Robert Bartini while at Beriev Aircraft Corporation.
Source: http://www.beriev.com/eng/Pr_rel_e/pr_110e.html
20thcentury
anti-submarine warfare
civil aviation
cold war
commonwealth of independent states
early 21st century
flying boat
post-cold war
post-world war ii
red fleet
russian federation
seaplane
soviet union
transport aircraft
unmanned aerial vehicle
ussr
wig
although no pictures exist there is supposed to be a model of the proposed RFA replenishment ship with nuclear power in the massive Greenwich collection. I have never been able to get to see this model, but based on some small drawings of mercantile UK reactor designs in an old Airfix magazine...
20thcentury
21st century
admiralty research department
atomic energy authority industrial group
atomic ships
cold war
great britain
nuclear powered vessels
nuclear royal fleet auxiliary
post-cold war
royal navy
swan hunter
united kingdom
united kingdom atomic energy authority
yarrow shipbuilders limited
yarrow-admiralty research department
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