post-world war ii

Suppose that operational helicopters were delayed several years beyond the original time line. Airborne operations are still limited to parachutes and assault gliders. What direction would assault gliders develop? Would they be limited to delivering small squads (say 10 men) to capture...

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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...

https://apnews.com/05569875820b15fd4639ff46e9d24670 Rest In Peace. :(

Hi, Mr. Eugene Gluhareff established a development company in 1952 to carry out research into pressure-jet powered light helicopters and aircraft,he designed MEG-1X,MEG-2X & MEG-3X,as a personal strap-on helicopter rig concepts, followed by GS-12 & GS-14,a rotary-wing drones. He also developed...

From L'Air 1949, here is a two-seat shoulder-wing light Dutch Airplane,maybe remained a Project,designed by Mr. Koekebakker in 1949, powered by one 65 hp Continental Pusher engine,does anyone hear about it before ?.

Some 'highly speculative' Soviet warship designs allegedly from Life Magazine in 1945, attributed to 'US Naval Architects' I stumbled across on Reddit... They come from this article in the 17th of December 1945 issue of the magazine... The Russian Navy is Reborn (Life Magazine, 17 December 1945)

We have covered individual projects and the infamous Sandys 1957 White Paper in some depth but I wanted to draw together what we have learnt with some open questions: Which missile projects across the board: Malkara to Blue Streak would you bin or save? Which Foreign systems would you have...

hi. late in WW2 the russians and mig bureau were devoloping the I-220,222,224 and I-225.does anyone know if drawings of these exsits? thanks

Hi, here is an odd design for oblique canard aircraft Project,designed by M. Billioque with SFAN (as I understand),all details are in Ailes 13/4/1946,if I translate wrong,please anyone can correct it.

Hello! I'm currently searching the data about this little guy: This is BHT-38 (Bombe Hurel-Turck) radio-controlled glide bomb, designed for French military shortly before World War 2. It was supposed to have a weight about 160 kg. Some examples were tested in 1940, but Fall of the France...

In the post-war years, the U.S. Coast Guard wished to explore new concepts for sea rescue. Two studies emerged: A glider-borne lifeboat which may be launched from water or land, and towed by powered aircraft to survivors of overseas airline crashed and marine casualties; A twin-rotor...

American Report about Kawasaki Aircraft Industries Company Inc on archive.org : https://archive.org/stream/corporationrepor19unit#page/n3/mode/2up report can be saved in .pdf , .epub plain text , daisy and in kindle format . on txt numbers on planned productions by kawasaki .

More on link below including the declassified documents themselves. http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/SIGINT_PhaseII.html

I am reasonably familiar with axis submarine projects, built and unbuilt, c1945. We're there any interesting British or American projects at this time beyond the typical A-Class and Fleet Boats? From what I've read it seems that the allies were content to build large numbers of relatively...

KENDALL CRABPOT and K.1 The initial version of this sailplane, known as the Crabpot, was designed by H. Kendall for the 1947 B.G.A. Two-seat Sailplane Competition. Conventional wooden construction, apart from the wing which had several spanwise webs and few ribs. The webs were 15 mm. thick, and...

Where can I find information about French night vision devices directly after WW II ? When and where such devices were used in the post WWII French armed forces ? From what I've found, most of the early ones used the activ system, so needing an IR light source. But the German Luftwaffe had used...

In July 1945 Supermarine had not yet finalised their design for the Type 392 Attacker. This drawing (39200 116) shows one of the alternatives considered; note the design of the tail surfaces, the repositioned air intakes, the four cannon mounted alongside the cockpit, and, of course, the...

What's everyone's recommendations for the best book on this American Cold War bomber?