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This is posted in the alternative history and future speculation section. So it is not history, but it is close to history. What if.....what if the P1154 is proceeded with? How does that happen? And what are its effects? ............. It could happen partly by not merging RN and RAF...

A much reproduced painting of the RAF F111K from General Dynamics (it heads up the Wikipedia entry) shows the plane in a non-standard green and brown camouflage pattern. I had always put this down to artistic licence but then I found a similar colour scheme on the cover of the 1970 RAF Souvenir...

I know that this is a well trodden subject but I thought that it would be interesting to compare the plans with what happened in reality. Ground Attack/Recce Squadrons It was planned to replace the Hunter with the 1154 Harrier in 8 squadrons: 2 in the UK, 2 in Germany, 2 in the Gulf and 2 in...

I know that these subjects have been done to death but I am still trying to get my head around the relationship between the two areas. A VG derivative of TSR2 would have made sense if the programme had worked out as originally planned, with aircraft in service by 1970 and a satisfactory RAF...

Just posted by the San Diego Air & Space Museum (SDASM) Archives on Flickr, a 1962 General Dynamics Astronautics film detailing the ORCA Weapons System / Project Sunrise, a containerized / encapsulated ocean floor-based ballistic missile (ICBM). The only mention of the concept I was able to...

If I may put in a shameless self plug for a moment: I have finished a companion volume to 'A Vertical Empire' called 'An Atomic Empire'. This deals with the British atomic programme from Windscale onwards, dealing with not only Windscale but the atomic weapons programme and the nuclear power...

Tito's Nuclear Legacy by William C. Potter, Djuro Miljanic & Ivo Slaus Published in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists http://www.bullatomsci.org March/April 2000 Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 63-70 © 2000 The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Yugoslavia--at least in the eyes of...

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a127471.pdf

http://atomic-skies.blogspot.ie/2012/07/nukes-on-ice.html (Drawings and pictures at link)

Stickleback Class Midge XPW Minnow (X54) Stickleback (X51) Shrimp (X52) Sprat (X53) Stickleback Class 1954 - 1958 The Stickleback class submarines were midget submarines of the Royal Navy initially ordered as improved versions of the older XE class submarines. The Royal Navy may have...

ONERA missiles and rockets from an old 1960s magazine:

Source: http://home.comcast.net/~wmiipms/NewsLetters/1994/WMIIPMS_01-1994_NL.pdf

Aircraft Familiarization A3J Vigilante (1962) United States Navy training film shows operating procedures of the North American A3J Vigilante on ground and in flight. http://youtu.be/cwYdz-U75fk

Let us consider the following. Suppose that CVA-01 and her two sisters are built as originally planned*, entering service in, say, '72, '75 and '78 respectively. The CAG would have been, iirc, 36 jets, 18 Phantoms and 18 Buccaneers on each ship. Given that the FAA replaced these aircraft with...

One of the joys of this site is the quantity of info available on unbuilt aircraft projects. Particularly tantalising are the various projects in the 70s and 80s for a supersonic VSTOL to replace the Harrier. The Bae 1216 has been the best covered thanks to Michael Pryce. Various US designs...

The Northrop N-251 was a supersonic VTOL interceptor concept with trapezoid wings, twin forward engines and vectored lift thrust at the CG, much like the Bell X-14 and DuPont DP-1/-2. Factory model is shown here.

The F4 Phantom might have failed to materialise as the wonderful plane which the RAF and RN used to fill various gaps from the 60s onwards. In a Phantomless world would P1154 have been developed as planned in 1963 for both RAF and RN or would the Lightning have been developed in its swing wing...

i found this You tube video on 1960s prediction on 1970s weapon system sadly it's show only a fragment of original film View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FydcxZt4Xdk&feature=player_embedded

"New secretariat urges a complete restart of Canada's F-35 buy" By Dave Majumdar on May 1, 2012 4:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (20) | TrackBacks (0) Source: http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/ Canada's Globe and Mail is reporting that a new secretariat within the Canadian...

man time goes by On April 15, 1952 the Prototype of B-52 rolled out Hangar at Boeing for 60 year B-52 is backbone of USAF strategic Bombing carry nuke during cold war , bomb vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Serbian back in stone age and NASA NB-52B Launch X-15, D-21, X-38, X-24, M2-F3, HL-10 ...