strategic air command

It would drive the cost sky high and ensure it never got built. And 90% of the targets wouldn't require it anyway. The US is even retiring it's best cruise missiles (the stealthy AGM-129) rather than convert them to conventional. Not sure why. Only thing I can come up with is the idea of...

Available here: http://www.up-ship.com/drawndoc/drawndocair.htm This includes a very large drawings of the missile and booster meant specifically for model makers; Standard Aircraft/Missile Characteristics of two early variants; rare drawings of the 1949 over/under ramjet version; a few other...

Hi, When I got a variants to Beoing C-135, I think it was not interesting, but when I read it I find many variants were little known. C-135A cargo/troop transport aircraft for US Military Air Transport Service with J57-59W engines. EC-135A conversions of KC-135A as flying command post and...

I have seen some info on Boeing's contender for the requirement eventually met by the Convair B58. It seems to be a much more conventional design similar to the Russian TU16 with swept wing and embedded engines. Anyone got any pictures or drawings?

If someone happy to have hi-res version of these North American Rockwell PR drawings (NA-73-400, Rev 9-83), I would be very obliged for sharing them with me. Thank you.

Just wondering if anyone knows what the tested maximum altitude and speed of the A-12/SR71 was? I contacted the USAF recently and they simply stuck to the published figures saying it flew at 85,000ft and could reach Mach 3.3. This doesn't seem to make sense as variants of the F-4, F-104 and...

Browsing in the NASA technical reports I found a score of wind-tunnel tests regarding a supersonic cruise bomber that seems linked to some unknown B-70 follow on specification from late '50s (report is from 1961). Some photographic reproductions of the models are practically unviewable, but...

I'm looking for information about a little-publicized US program in the mid-to-late 1980s for an intercontinental cruise missile. It was intended to have a 6000 nm range, Lockheed, Boeing, and General Dynamics were the candidate contractors, and three designs (subsonic, supersonic, and...

I asked on the warships1 board whether the USAF had looked at a tanker version of the DC-8 in case there were problems with the KC135 and got a reply back saying that Lockheed had proposed a jet tanker that was apparently the favourite at one time. The USAF bought the KC-135 purely as a...

Hi everybody, During the 1987/1988 McDonnell-Douglas tried to make a deal with Airbus to develope MD-330 airliner,which was based on a stretch MD-11 airframe with Airbus A300 wing to compete Boeing-747,but the McDonnell later developed the design MD-12,anther series of little known airliner...

Lockheed SR-71/YF-12 Blackbirds Excellent volume in the Warbird Tech series, good solid information from a good author. Recommended. ****

Blackbird: Beyond the Secret Missions A classic book, full of fascinating details about the design and operations of the A-12, YF-12 and SR-71, with good material on peripheral matters like Soviet MiG-25 and MiG-31 and Swedish JA-37 interceptions. <a...

I woul like to know something about the kinfish proposal for a strategic recon aircraft (in the competition won by the lockheed a-12) and about the super hustler design. Unfortunately the only information i foud are in Russian (quite strange for united states secret projects)...

Numerous methods of deploying the Peacekeeper were investigated and I wish somebody had all the details. Here's a few things I turned up: "One of the first MX projects was the Vertical Shelter Ground System Definition Program which required construction of an 18-foot diameter, 130-foot deep...

According to Vaclav Němeček in his book “Civilní letadla 2” the drawing gives an impression of a DC-10 variant, but he didn’t mention a D-… number. Is anyone able to supplement the designation?

I'm looking for illustrations of the Fairchild M-195 (a competitor to Bell Model 67, Martin RB-57D and Lockheed CL-282). Who can help?

Air International Jan 1978

I was thinking the other day, 'did the British ever think of, or look at a carrier-based variant of the English Electric Canberra light bomber'? Does anyone know an answer to this? Regards Pioneer

I know, that to thirteen firms have dispatched request for competition. 1) Boeing Model 474--------------XB-55 2) Convair Model ? 3) Martin Model 247 or Model 247-1 4) ? Model ? 5) ? Model ? 6) ? Model ? 7) ? Model ? 8) ? Model ...

I have no photos or drafts, but a snippet of information: in the RAND study "Bonber R&D since 1945. The Role of Experience" I found this: and note 14 . Now, it seems that Dennis Jenkins has a lot of matter for a second edition of his worderful Valkyrie book.... (not to mention expanding the...