WaveRider test vehicle meets B-52
by Derek Kaufman
88th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
8/4/2009 - WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFNS) -- Airmen successfully mated the X-51A WaveRider flight test vehicle to a B-52 Stratofortress July 17 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The fit check...
PARSECS stands for "Program for Astronomical Research and Scientific Experiments Concerning Space". It was a major effort by Boeing starting from the late 1957 to at least 1960 under the Model 854, 855 and 856 designations. Boeing envisioned, with input from preminent scientists and astronomers...
The F-18 flaps and flaperons... I know the flaps and elevons both droop equally at least at high settings and they seem to have a slot. What I am curious about is what you call the part of the flap in front of the slot (it pivots/droops somewhat with the flap), does anybody know what you call...
From http://www.dtic.mil/srch/doc?collection=t2&id=ADA259291
Unnumbered study for an intercontinental range cruise missile designed for Mach 3.5 @ 80,000ft.
Hi,
I know that my dear Orionblamblam displayed a drawing to it before,
but here is Boeing Model-448 in wind tunnel.
Source:
Charles D Bright The Jet Makers: The Aerospace Industry from 1945 to 1972
http://www.generalatomic.com/jetmakers/chapter4.html
1945
boeing
late 1940s
post-world war ii
reconnaissance bomber
strategic bomber
strategic reconnaissance
united states
united states army air forces
world war ii
[1986]...mission analysis that
was conducted by a large number of Air Force and
industry organizations. The purpose was to formulate
and understand the alternatives for future
strategic aeronautical weapon systems and identify
promising system concepts to follow those currently
in the inventory...
aeronautical systems division
air force systems command
boeing
cold war
hypersonic
late 1980s
lockheed
mcdonnell douglas
nuclear battlefield
rockwell international
rockwell space transportation systems division
space weapons
strategic air command
strategic bomber
strategic reconnaissance
supersonic
tactical nuke
united states
united states air force
world war iii
Hi,
the Boeing developed an airliner project similar to concept of the
Military aircraft,the C-17,Also the company designed a four engined
version of Model-777.
http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/2000/2000%20-%200048.html
Northrop-EADS wins U.S. Air Force tanker, beats Boeing
Feb. 29, 2008 • An international consortium led by U.S. giant Northrop Grumman and European conglomerate EADS has won the U.S. Air Force’s competition for the next fleet of new aerial refueling aircraft, officials announced late Feb. 29. The...
2010s
2020s
air force materiel command
air mobility command
airbus
boeing
cold war ii
eads
in-flight refueling tanker
late 2000s
lockheed martin
northrop grumman
post-cold war
tanker aircraft
united states air force
war on terror
Hi,
the Aviation Week magazine published this Boeing VTOL transport aircraft project
and the Flightglobal magazine displayed it.
http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1973/1973%20-%202151.html
Over many years I have gathered together brochures and artwork (cards ads etc) for the Boeing SST
So far I have artwork for the following:
Airlift (photo of broken model from ebay)
Alitalia (drawing in brochure)
Braniff (image from Internet site)
Continental (photo of model in brochure-meatball...
Screen capture with rare view of YF-22NX (second, PW F-119 equipped prototype) with nose cone removed, towed from hangar after cosmetiс restoration of airframe, damaged by PIO crash in April 1992.
Sometimes projects make themselves discovered in very unlikely places. Last Friday I was in Rome at the Italian Air Force historical archives doing research for my book. On the same table there was my friend Paolo Miana looking for infos on the Italian giant bombers of late 20s -early 30s...
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. This patent, for example... http://www.google.com/patents?id=T1wtAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&dq=4828204&num=100
.... shows the Boeing Model 733-606-12 supercrusie demonstrator project from about 1977. It is a rare patent in that it is quite detailed and the...
Boeing's LWF design was rated very highly in the LWF competition. It has been suggested it came second in the evaluation to General Dynamics Model 401 (F-16), but Northrop's P-610 was given the second contract because it was twin engined and hence represented a different approach. Boeing's...
Hello!
Well I've discovered that I knew rather bad the loser of the JSF contest, the Boeing X-32. This is one is well documented on the web, but drawings of the
- aborted- operational variant are less known... Seems a mockup was build by Boeing and showed at Farnborough in july 2000...
I recall a couple of pictures of designs for VSTOL versions of the Grumman Mohawk (one with tilt wing and another(I think from Boeing) with a VSTOL swing wing design?
Was this in answer to a requirement in the US or were the aircraft simply speculative ventures in the early 60s. The Boeing...
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