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Movietone News "The Mosquito" http://youtu.be/-cb6SmK_c2g

Is there anyone who can ID this plane for me? Is this a fake Picture ?! Regards, AK

Brochure, thanks of "bertielissie" on AMI:

Does anybody know which colour was the Seamew XE175 painted?

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...

Hi, the engineering Stefan Malinowski was a Polish designer,he interested to modify airplane wings,began with Caudron G-3,as I think Type-I,followed by some modifications we can called it Type-II,the Stemal-III (Type-III) was an experimental airplane based on a fuselage of Nieuport 83 with a...

I found this drawing on the net and the only info I know that is was an Avro Bomber Project with 10 engines. Do you guys know anything more on this project?

Some of you may have seen my reference to the 1970 Observers Book of Aircraft commenting that "a small number of C5s expected to be ordered for the RAF". I have now found my cutting from the 1970 Air Pictorial covering the new Conservative Government's first Defence White Paper later than...

This is a Vickers proposal from october 1959 on the Operational Requirement OR.346 A unusual proposal It's put four RB.153 Jet-engine inside a four square block on upper rear fuselage The Fuselage also very unusual with variable geometry wings with none elevator in empennage section The...

Silo costs 1960s. What were the Titan 2 silo costs (1960$)? What were the 1960 Blue Streak silo cost estimates? How did they compare? How did they compare with Polaris costs?

The next PTP I am writing, on Harrier Projects, is about 50% written. It will feature some things already known about, but tell their full story, such as: as well as revealing wholly new stories, such as the full saga of the Harrier III, the proposed Sea Harrier FRS.3 and some weird and...

220 Tornado IDS; replacing 7 Squadrons (6 from 1981) of Vulcan B.2 (56 in total), 5 squadrons of Jaguar and 2 squadrons of RAF Germany Buccaneers: 11 squadrons planned as of 1985 of which 2 were to be recce. there was ultimately a try-national training unit and the TWCU. 165 Tornado ADV...

. I don't know where this really belongs (if at all) anyway, out of interest, Air Britain have (?) released a new book on RAF unmanned aircraft / target drones / recon drones called "Sitting Ducks and Peeping Toms" - I do NOT know if any projected models are included :-...

Avro Excalibur R.1 "XP730" - 543 Squadron RAF - 1964 Scratchbuilt 1/72 scale Avro 730. This depicts the earlier 4 engine version that was submitted by Avro against Operational Requirement 330. The fuselage was built using a length of 1 inch conduit as a core, fitted with cross sections...

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'...

Raytheon Systems Company, Elta Division of Israeli Aircraft Industries, and Airbus Industries A130-based submission for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Project Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AEW&C) system. The team also included Hawker de Havilland, Honeywell...

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...