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I’m particularly interested in the navigation and attack capabilities of the early Harriers, in particular Falklands era. However research on the net has only led to a partial understanding of this subject. It’s the same story with published works. I’m aware that some members of the forum are...

Hi, from Tony Butler's Air Enthusiast magazine; http://crimso.msk.ru/Site/Arts/Art3524.htm I want a more info about those two projects.

This YouTube video has some really good footage of Harriers, plus some other aircraft (Sea Vixens - yay!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjRdNwcWsZE I especially like the Sea Harrier in nuclear strike configuration (WE177 and tank) preparing to launch at 20:37 and the 'Captain Pugwash'...

The V-bomber fleet spent most of its life with relatively primitive avionics for the age, as far as I can tell only two major(ish) changes were ever made, the first was the addition of the ARI 5959 (General Dynamics AN/APN-170) J-band terrain following radar, however this came with restrictions-...

in end of 1930 the British aircraft manufacturer Hillson came up with exotic Aircraft concept to increase take off performance of monoplane, by making them temporal biplane ! the concept was called "Bi-mono" Noel Pemberton Billing, (inventor, pilot and politician) proposed a wing with own...

Who can flesh this lot out? 1954: Sperry/UK, licence from Sperry/US: intended for (to be) Blue Streak. Bracknell clean room. Abandoned for: 3/57: Elliott licence from Bosch Arma (ATLAS kit). Rochester clean room. B Streak died 13/4/60 but INS work continued for Blue Steel. 1957: Ferranti...

Dear Boys and Girls, here is an article describing the BAC X-Eleven "project" for a (then) new technology short-medium range jet airliner with CFM-56 engines. This "project" has a wider fuselage cross-section than the standard BAC 1-11. I believe this was the final attempt to make a stand-alone...

I add the picture, for a direct view of this twin-boom project:

Hello, I am looking for any information concerning the 2 tailless military projects, refered as "Pterodactyl II" and "Pterodactyl III", presented by Geoffrey HILL to the Air Minitry in 1925-1927 , after the successful tests of his first powered "Pterodactyl" (aircraft now on show at the Science...

Hi all, I search for drawing of some Hawker fighter projects. Hope you can help: 1) Hawker Henley Escort fighter conversion 2) Hawker Henley Close Support Bomber 3) Hawker Typhoon with Turbo-Supercharger 4) Hawker Tempest with Bristol Centaurus 5) Hawker Tempest Mk.I with Sabre IV 6)...

Hi all, I search for a good 3view drawing of the Hawker Tempest III or IV. Thanks for your help. Maveric

Also found in the Wallpaper Books at Brooklands. The fairly conventional 1187-5 The more radical 1187-3 The enormous 1187-9 (that appears to be a Harrier to the same scale!) All I've been able to find out about them is from harrier.org which dates the HS 1187 project at 1970 and...

Hawker Siddeley Dynamics designed an unmanned interceptor in the early 1970s. The small canard delta wing aircraft was powered by a Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan, equipped with an air intercept radar, and armed with a single Sky Flash AAM and two AIM-9C or SRAAM AAMs. The drone would be launched...

Not one I'd heard of before. A light transport design with hints of Buccaneer: [link no longer active]

Today it is 50 years since the first Hawker P.1127 hovered, on 21st of October 1960. Despite the recent news that the UK is retiring its fleet the US Marine Corps, Spanish Navy, Italian Navy and Indian Navy continue to operate it, and it is likely that the Harrier will still be in service for...

Latest stories are that the entire RAF Tornado fleet may be retired. The £7.5bn 'saved' may help pay for a Trident replacement. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1298871/RAF-Tornado-fleet-faces-axe-bid-save-7bn.html This is still speculative (the 'leak' was hardly an agreed policy...

Model of Armstrong Whitworth AW.56 Source: http://www.strange-mecha.com/aircraft/FW/RAF-fw.htm

We may need a thread dedicated to Armstrong Whitworth aircraft. Here is the AW drawing for Armstrong Whitworth B.1/39. Drawing date is 3/6/39. Dwg No. is AW9186? (last number is cut off in this photo) I have also added a favorite detail image, showing the location of twelve large bombs. * I had...

Hi All, Tried the search function and didn't find anything, Likewise tried searches on the net, zilch.. nada... I am after a drawing of the gloster F9/37 with the peregrine engines fitted, anyone seen any, or know of a link ? cheers Jerry

Apparently no-one has yet tackled the subject on this forum, so here is my contribution. After days of research, it seems that there is no chance of ever filling the gaps in this list as even the sources of the time and the resources available do not give the type numbers for many A.W.A...