strategic air command

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)...

Midgetman (SICBM) mobile launchers.

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

These are advanced Boeing Bomber Studies from the late '70s. Except for the two Rockwell design, which I left in due to the two page Boeing 'X-Wing' Bomber design. Large Version of the above image

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...

AMSA was said to stand for "America's Most Studied Aircraft" due to the length of time it took to get to flying hardware. Flying Review International, July 1970 I'm sure I've seen a Lockheed AMSA design, and Doug Richardson's B-1 book has 3 AMSA designs that may be the Rockwell evolution, but...

‘Strategic Weapons Launcher’ “SWL” 1n the late 1960’s and early 1970’s the US became very concerned about the growing accuracy of the Soviets new and future ICBM’s and SLBM’s. This accuracy would threaten the Strategic Air Commands (SACs) fixed ICBM silo fields in a ‘first strike’. The USAF...

Stumbled onto this photo today so I thought I'd start a thread about ASALM (the first photo). Any info and images would be appreciated (already checked out Andreas' page).

Anyone anything about this stuff? More than this: Isinglass: Mach 17, rocket powered, air-launched reconnaissance aircraft? part of RS-129 (Staged combustion hydrogen-oxygen rocket component development program)? wide usage of lightweight structures (diffusion bonded titanium honeycomb) "CIA...

(anybody remember this book? :) ) I use to have this book years ago and in it there was a picture of a proposed 747 cruise missile carrier. It would have had nine of those 8-round rotary launchers that could apparently move around in the aircraft as the launch position was to the rear. Does...

"Rockwell's Manned strategic system concepts 1990-2000" study Dan Raymer's fantasy was outstanding...hands off

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...