post-world war ii

  1. monochromelody

    Defector's Battle: Cromwell tanks in IDF

    After the end of the Second World War, the surviving Jews in the Nazi concentration camps set off a new wave of return to their hometowns and settle down in Palestine. Seeing that the time was right, Zionism began to raise up, calling on Jews living in different parts of the world to return to...
  2. F

    Post-WWII French Ejection Seat research?

    I wondered if anyone could point me in the direction of original reports, papers and recollections about the testing by the french (and possibly British / Americans) or captured German ejector seat technology at the end of WWII. Any assistance you could give me in this matter would be...
  3. airman

    United States Strategic Bombing Survey

    The United States Strategic Bombing Survey was a written report created by a board of experts assembled to produce an impartial assessment of the effects of Anglo-American strategic bombing of Nazi Germany during the European theatre of World War II. After publishing its report, the Survey...
  4. hesham

    Brabazon Type-3, possible Competitors ?

    Hi, the Brabazon Type-3 or Specification 6/45,the known tenders were; Airspeed,Armstrong-Whitworth and Avro-692 & Avro-693,but can I ask if those companies involved or not; Blackburn,Bristol ,De Havilland,Fairey,Folland,Handley Page,Miles,Percival,Scottish Aviation, Shorts,Vickers and Westland ?.
  5. Graham1973

    The Sherman Minutia Homepage

    A website devoted to tracking as many of the various iterations of the M4 Sherman as can be determined from surviving documentation. http://the.shadock.free.fr/sherman_minutia/index.html
  6. World B4

    Pre-1946 Grenade Launchers

    Here are some interesting projects I wanted to post. Some are actually light mortars. I don't care. From Britain: A late WW1 prototype, a humble beginning https://collections.royalarmouries.org/first-world-war/type/rac-narrative-125.html From the USSR: The spade mortar, a jack of 2 trades...
  7. R

    What if Italy went communist after World War 2?

    What if the northern, industrialized part of Italy remained under communist control after World War 2? What if Italian trade unionists developed a unique, ITALIAN form of communism? ... more like Yugoslavia? ... with few Moscow trained communists?
  8. uk 75

    HMS Vanguard

    The Triang company produced a range of waterline model ships in 1/200 scale in the early 1960s and briefly again in the 1970s. Star of the Royal Navy models in the range was HMS Vanguard. Rather like Vanguard there were also models of the other recently scrapped big ships, the cruisers HMS...
  9. Tzoli

    French Radar Sets

    Not sure where to ask but here it is: Is there a comprehensive list of French Radars (Both land and naval based) which was developed? Did France able to start developing radar technology before the capitulation or it was kick-started by British and American equipment after the war? To my...
  10. hesham

    Belgian Helicopter Projects & Prototypes

    From VTB magazine,free download, the Gyrocopter of Watteyne and Glymes. Les Vieilles Tiges - Magazines VTB
  11. XoXSciFiGuy

    The Mystery of U-530

    At the end of World War 2, the U-boat U-530 surrendered at Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the time, it was commanded by a very young lieutenant in the Kreigsmarine. The problem was this U-boat took far longer to reach Argentina than it should have, and when it finally arrived in July 1945, the...
  12. uk 75

    Douglas DC3 Dakota replacement?

    The 1950s and 1960s produced many attempts in East and West to design an aeroplane to replace the Douglas DC3 and C47 Dakota. None that flew seemed to fill the gap, and many Daks flew on. Or do you think there was a built or unbuilt Dak replacement that cut the mustard?
  13. J

    Arsenal VB.10

    A bit more conventional was the system of engines in tandem designed during the German occupation by the engineer Michel Vernisse. It was to power the Arsenal VB.10 fighter by using two Hispano-Suiza H.S. 12Z engines. One of them was installed in the nose of the airplane and the other in the...
  14. robunos

    Bristol Brigand Drop Test

    I came across this posted on a modelling forum I frequent, does anyone know what it is ? The aircraft is Bristol Brigand RH763. This what the poster wrote . . . "I just came across this picture in my files, and thought that it might be of interest. I used to work for a parachute company and I...
  15. M

    Post-war 2-inch rockets?

    I have come across several mentions of a "Microcell rocket", for instance: https://books.google.ca/books?id=n-NnHL2crPQC&pg=PA44 Googling around a bit it seems "Microcell" refers to the launcher, or more specifically, the company that produced them...
  16. hesham

    Bellanca Prototypes & Projects

    Hi, here is a Bellanca Miscellaneous Handwritten Notes and Sketches, Large Transport, 1948-1950, http://edan.si.edu/slideshow/viewer/?eadrefid=NASM.1993.0055_ref725
  17. able

    RN AAcruiser

  18. hesham

    British Light/Civil Aircraft and Projects,Post WWI

    From British Civil Aircraft since 1919, Mr. F. W. Broughton built a single seat parasol wing light monoplane,powered by one 30 hp Carden,developed from Perman Parasol,called Broughton-Blayney Brawney.
  19. blackkite

    Hughes H-4 Hercules

    Hi! https://acesflyinghigh.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/the-hughes-h-4-hercules-aka-the-spruce-goose/ https://www.drivearchive.co.uk/xplanes/goose.htm https://www.seawings.co.uk/sprucegooseplan-7.htm http://www.aviastar.org/air/usa/hughes_h-4.php...
  20. uk 75

    Postwar European cruisers

    As a kid I spent a lot of time browsing through Janes Fighting Ships in our local library. One of my favourite group of ships were the big cruisers which were the hallmark of major European navies. The most modern of these were the helicopter carrying Terrier armed ships of the Italian navy plus...
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