I've always wondered about how the Perm D-30F6 turbofan is able to power the MiG-31 to Mach 2.83, when it appeared to be a relatively conventional adaptation of the D-30 commercial turbofan family.
Source is ENGINES OF RUSSIAN COMBAT AIRCRAFT by Kotelnikov V. R., Khrobystova O. V., Zrelov V...
Part of the one documentary threads on this channel. States it’s considered one of the worst aircraft to fly with the RAF.
View: https://youtu.be/OO_t3HFGrhw?si=BJGkVc9QwQeiINZa
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supermarine aviation ltd
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The British B.A.E. Kingston P1214-3 Xwing Fighter Interceptor is the only aircraftdesign that was really an X-Wing version. It was designed by Hawker Design Team at Kingston in the late 70's for RAF as Advanced-Short-Tak-Off / Vertical Landing Fighter.. The aircraft had 3 adjustable thrusters...
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late 1970s
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I am unsure if this is the right forum to post this, or if SecretProjects is even the right site, but if i understood correcrly this should be fine. If this post needs to be taken down just tell me and i will remove it!
I've been trying to come up with some at least partly believable combat...
I haven't made a post on here in ages but today I stumbled upon something very strange and interesting only the people here might know of to find. I was going on a romp around Japan in Google Maps looking at aviation museums and such and I came across a museum near Nagoya Airport owned by...
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Here's a somewhat thorough article about SAGE, the "Semi-Automatic Ground Environment" system co-ordinating air defense over North America from 1958, parts of it surviving operational up until the early 1980s...
I heard rumors about and little bits of info on successors to the LRI-X interceptors that were hypersonic and had missiles with a range of 500 miles is there any info on them like blueprints and performance information?
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The General Dynamics F-111 was a swing-wing tactical fighter, interdictor, nuclear bomber and electronic warfare aircraft developed in the early 1960s in the belief that requirements...
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I checked, no thread for this one.
It was developed by RCA between early 1956 and september 1958 when it was canned. Before and after these dates, ( sigh...) the prefered option was the MX-1179 / MA-1.
While the Sparrow II missile is well known, Astra 1 remains kind of mystery. It has been...
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west germany
This document has already been referenced in this forum, but I will include the link anyway because it is a very concise summary of the Air Force's search for a truly new advanced fighter:
Lyons, Major Robert P. Jr. (3 April 1986)
"The Search for an Advanced Fighter: A History from the XF-108...
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I like this bird nice colors. i think that this rare bird should have topic.
Do sombadey know performernce charts or something beyond wikipedia .
Did this stuff realy work i meam with F-4 nations.Two fighter one engine.
Is this bird that bad.
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Hi,
I found this strange drawing to F 102,may be,they meant Convair F-102,
but please look to its air intakes !,I think this a French imagine to F-102
before it appeared...
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early 1940s
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fighter bomber
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pre-world war ii
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world war ii
zerstörer
This was a program, possibly inspired by the B-1C and related proposals, to procure a number of P-3C based variants equipped with the AWG-9 Radar and the Phoenix missile (likely the AIM-54C ECCM/Sealed version), for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force. The program began as a TRDI program in...
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jsdf
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kawasaki heavy industries
mitsubishi
mitsubishi heavy industries
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trdi
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aircraft cannon/guns
close air support
cold war
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f-15
f-x program (usaf)
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flechette
interceptor
machine cannon
machine gun
tactical air command
united states
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Random thought....
Have there been any designs for jet VTOL tailsitters, on paper or actually built, with the engine reversed in the airframe and the efflux turned 180 degrees or so to exit from the nose? It's not hard to imagine such a design with a pair of Harrier-style rotating louvers for...
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continental air command
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curtiss-wright airplane division
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late 1940s
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world war ii
xp-87
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/03/25/russia.uk.intercepts/index.html?hpt=T2
Is this just payback for all the times we did it to them over the years?
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