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  1. J

    CA-12 Boomerang Evolution

    In July 1940 the hounded British government warns the Australians of an imminent embargo of any aviation materials. On 10 December 1941 the capital ships of the Royal Navy H.M.S. Prince of Wales and H.M.S. Repulse are sunk by Japanese airplanes. On 21 December of the same month, the firm...
    • Justo Miranda
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    • british commonwealth british empire commonwealth aircraft corporation commonwealth of australia curtiss-wright corporation general electric pacific ocean theater post-world war ii pratt & whitney rolls-royce royal australian air force world war ii wright aeronautical corporation
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Secret Early Aircraft Projects
  2. C

    Replacing the Pratt & Whitney J57 with the General Electric J79?

    The following United States military aircrafts of the Cold War were equipped with the Pratt & Whitney J57 axial-flow turbojet engines: Convair F-102 Delta Dagger Douglas A3D Skywarrior McDonnell F-101 Voodoo North American F-100 Super Sabre Vought F-8 Crusader Douglas, McDonnell, and Vought...
  3. T

    GE Blazer air defence turrets

    air defence turrets with gau-12 and gau-13 gatling gun
    • tround
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    • 1980s air defence air defense artillery branch battlefield air defence cold war faads-los-fh forward area air defense general electric los-f-h spaag spad u.s. army united states army
    • Replies: 31
    • Forum: Secret Army Projects
  4. Tuomasn

    General Electric turbine engines

    Whilst doing something else I decided to compile a list of General Electric turbine engines with "GExx" designations. GE has obviously used also other designation series, so anyone who wants can add those. Also, as usual, any additions or corrections are welcome. Note that I'm not certain if the...
    • Tuomasn
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    • cold war cold war ii early 21st century general electric general electric aircraft engines general electric company late 20th century post-cold war united states
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Designation Systems
  5. K

    Pratt & Whitney J-91 vs General Electric J-93 GE-1, GE-3, and GE-5 Questions

    Normally, I would just look through my books but I don't have very much information about the J-91 other than it had a 9-stage compressor, a twin-stage turbine, a 7:1 pressure-ratio, a trans-sonic compressor, a 55-inch diameter, and that the J-58 was an 80% scaled down version with a higher...
    • KJ_Lesnick
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    • cold war general electric general electric company pratt & whitney
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  6. Michel Van

    General Electric Mars Mission Study July 19, 1967.

    better know as Mission Engineering Study of Electrically Propelled Manned Planetary Vehicles GE began the study for MSFC in July 1966. they proposed to uses both nuclear-thermal and nuclear-electric propulsion. Nuclear ionengine give mission flexibility also for unfavorable opportunities and...
    • Michel Van
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    • cold war deep space probes general electric late 1960s marshall space flight center nasa nasa marshall space flight center nuclear power nuclear rockets space race united states
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
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