early 1970s

Does any one know why the name of Mikhail Gurevich was dropped from the Mikoyan-and-Gurevich Design Bureau in 1970 becoming the Mikoyan Design Bureau? Does this also mean that Western aviation books that identify aircraft designed and manufactured after 1970 with the name Mikoyan-Gurevich are...

In 1972 the US speculated that if India had gone nuclear at that time, India could "use aircraft in its current inventory such as Canberras or reconfigured Boeing 707's or 747's, as delivery vehicles, but these would be a rudimentary affair, essentially for one-way missions."...

AQUILINE was a CIA project to develop a low-flying surveillance RPV in the late 60s/early 70s. From "Air Force UAVs The Secret History": "The CIA developed a few UAVs through the Directorate of Science and Technology’s Office of Development and Engineering rather than through the NRO. The...

At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_Ship_Medium_Mk_II there is an article on an abortive Australian landing ship project. It says nothing however about the dimensions etc. of the ship as well as it contains no images. Does anyone here know more on this project? Any info, esp. regarding the...

Artist's impression of Royal Australian Navy (RAN) light destroyer (DDL) project from 1966 to 1972. Source: http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=54420 For more information. URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_light_destroyer_project

that a Novum in this Forum we talk allot about Aircraft, but not much about Airports Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport was original planed as Aéroport de Paris Nord in 1966 with 4 runways of 4000 meter length and 6 big Terminals like Terimal One, but with 6 floor multi-storey car park for 4000...

i found this Picture of Tank called "XM-759 MTV" very unusual track design. source http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/m/r/mrbolshevik/proto.jpg

The Sea-based Anti-Ballastic Missile Intercept System (SABMIS) program, sometimes referred to as Seabourne Anti-Ballistic Missile Intercept System, was a US Navy program to develop a seabourne ICBM defense. Contracts to study the concept were awarded in 1967 to Hughes Aircraft Company, Lockheed...

Check it out! http://beyondapollo.blogspot.com/2009/09/skylab-salyut-space-laboratory-1972.html Moonbat

An interesting way of achieving this capability: http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0754396 Abstract : Two species of whales, killer whales (Orcinus orca) and pilot whales (Globicephala scammoni), were conditioned to locate and mark for recovery...

The Bell Model 309 King Cobra was an experimental attack helicopter based on Bell's successful AH-1 Cobra. The program was started in 1971 as an unsolicited response to the development problems of the Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne that was chosen for the US Army's Advanced Aerial Fire Support System...

Does anyone have specifications of the North American Rockwell/General Dynamics Phase B Shuttle (1970)? Any additional concept art and drawings would be appreciated as well. http://web.archive.org/web/20070609091323/www.abo.fi/~mlindroo/SpaceLVs/Slides/sld029.htm

A project I've never heard of until today, looking through the Rockwell bomber study PDF here: http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=C016293&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf Concept 4-1 uses stealth technologies developed under Rockwell's Surprise Fighter program. Radar tests of a model of...

http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4221/ch4.htm One alternative, at $3.5 billion per year, eliminated NERVA and stopped production of Saturn V and Apollo spacecraft. This option, however, would maintain a vigorous program in piloted flight, featuring Skylab with three visits as well as six additional...

Reading the chapter in TB's new American Secret Projects book on the contenders for the VSTOL USN fighter in the 70s I was fascinated by the lengthy narrative on the Fairchild Republic proposal. No pictures appear, but it seems to resmble a smaller updated version of the company's proposal for...

History of Ramjet and Scramjet Propulsion Development for U.S. Navy Missiles This appears to be the patent for the missile. The attached image is extracted from it. The fuel used is 50% boron. Would this be a significant contributing reason as to why the missile was not funded for further...

http://www.georgespangenberg.com/exhibitindex.htm I found this while surfing for F-111B material today. David W.

Just found today in Icaré 1971 issue,french project for a hydrofoil missile boat. As it's desigantion is SA-850, I think it had been a project of the naval branch (?) od Sud-Aviation ? Nevertheless, maybe it's interesting for you ... displacement : 75 t, speed 48 knots, armament 4 x Exocet and...

http://www.aiaa.org/tc/vstol/unbuilt/mbb/index_r.html BBH-2 Pic:

Nice pics of an MBT-70 prototype http://tanxheaven.com/mbo/MBT-70/MBT-70.htm