P&W completed PDR for its NGAD engine candidate (paywalled):
https://insidedefense.com/daily-news/pratt-whitney-reaches-crucial-digital-design-milestone-ngap-prototype
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...
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
My biggest question regarding the Lockheed Suntan program is why they bothered investigating hydrogen turbojets in the first place. The best advantage I can think of was the ability to achieve the desired speed and range with an airframe that was much lighter than anything else in its size...
central intelligence agency
cold war
hydrogen powered vehicles
late 1950s
lockheed
pratt & whitney
skunk works
strategic air command
strategic reconnaissance
united states
united states air force
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...
<...A study was conducted to determinehhe impact of integrated flight, inlet, and engine control system architectures on system
effectiveness (safety, mission reliability, maintainability, dispatchability, and availability) and life cycle cost (LCC). The aircraft
is a modified Lockheed YF-12...
SENIOR CITIZEN is supposed to be some sort of stealthy transport for special ops stuff.
Here's some info on a few unbuilt SENIOR CROWN variations:
SR-71I
30 September 1980 iteration:
-AWG-9 radar
-four AIM-54 missiles
-anti-AWACS tasked
1 November 1982 iteration:
-APG-65 radar
-four AIM-120...
aerospace defense command
air defence
air defense command
central intelligence agency
cold war
general electric aircraft engines
lockheed
nuclear battlefield
pratt & whitney
sead
skunk works
strategic air command
strategic bomber
strategic defence
strategic reconnaissance
united states
united states air force
united states navy
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