A much reproduced painting of the RAF F111K from General Dynamics (it heads up the Wikipedia entry) shows the plane in a non-standard green and brown camouflage pattern.
I had always put this down to artistic licence but then I found a similar colour scheme on the cover of the 1970 RAF Souvenir...
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late 1960s
nuclear battlefield
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raf fighter command
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royal air force
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I know that this is a well trodden subject but I thought that it would be interesting to compare the plans with what happened in reality.
Ground Attack/Recce Squadrons
It was planned to replace the Hunter with the 1154 Harrier in 8 squadrons: 2 in the UK, 2 in Germany, 2 in the Gulf and 2 in...
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Hello, I am air-enthusiast from Russia. Sorry for my bad English!
Probably B-52 is the best strategic aircraft of the XX century. I especially interested in B-52 early variants and I have questions about the oldest "Buff"`s avionics.
All the books I had read (Boyne, Davis & Tornborough...
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man time goes by
On April 15, 1952 the Prototype of B-52 rolled out Hangar at Boeing
for 60 year B-52 is backbone of USAF strategic Bombing
carry nuke during cold war , bomb vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Serbian back in stone age
and NASA NB-52B Launch X-15, D-21, X-38, X-24, M2-F3, HL-10 ...
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In 1972 the US speculated that if India had gone nuclear at that time, India could "use aircraft in its current inventory such as Canberras or reconfigured Boeing 707's or 747's, as delivery vehicles, but these would be a rudimentary affair, essentially for one-way missions."...
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I can't find any images of this, but I've read about studies that were undertaken to bring the B-70's RCS down to that of the B-52. Plans called for 10-20 degrees of dihedral to be added to the wings, vertical tail-surfaces to be canted inward 10-20 degrees, as well as the addition of slanted...
Contest 1934: A speedy bomber for the Royal Italian Air Force
Talking about the characteristics and necessities of competition held by the Italian Ministry of Aeronautics in 1934 for a Terrestrial bomber <Veloce> (speedy) defined with the intention to evade enemy fighters; You must place in the...
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-...
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...
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In 1945 Heinkel began development of a bomber which was propelled by four jet engines.
This bomber has the layout of the later Victor bomber used by the RAF, a delta wing with a T shaped tail.
This bomber was capable to reach long distance targets I believe even targets into the US.
I'm...
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Checking the information of the A-3 naval bomber I discover with the A-3 has the option of under wind station, some of the stations has used in the ERA-3B and the NRA-3B, but this stations was standard of the A-3 original bomber version of was added in a after version? What is the theoretical...
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Model of Myasishchev M-56 from USSR-Russian Aviation & Space Collectibles (Alex Panchenko).
Description:
Source:
http://www.ussr-airspace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=28_39_38_108&products_id=2005
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The following "article" is adapted from RyanCrierie (on another forum) and Andreas Parsch (on his website).
Known contenders to the U.S. Navy BDM proposal were as follows:
Admiral-Beech PD-111/-1
Avion (ACF)
Bendix
Bell 69
Emerson
Grumman G-143 Bushfire
Motorola
Sperry Gyroscope SMD-109...
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/03/25/russia.uk.intercepts/index.html?hpt=T2
Is this just payback for all the times we did it to them over the years?
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I have a very poor microfilm blueprint scan of the Blohm und Voss P.173.02 long range bomber.
From what I can make out it is a six engined bomber that shares the wings and tail of the BV 238 seaplane.
Does anyone have any good drawings or information on this project?
I'll try to make as clean...
I finally got the microfilm in the mail of all four volumes of this study; and had them scanned by a local company.
First up, the magnificient maidien known as the Valkyrie:
Reading further; North American was very dead set against Active Defense in any form for the B-70; which isn't that...
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Hi,
I know that my dear Orionblamblam displayed a drawing to it before,
but here is Boeing Model-448 in wind tunnel.
Source:
Charles D Bright The Jet Makers: The Aerospace Industry from 1945 to 1972
http://www.generalatomic.com/jetmakers/chapter4.html
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Here you go you, folks! Looking for art of the Convair shuttle for Orion and I found this. It's a good imagining of many uses for the XB-70 IF it hadn't stayed a prototype. Enjoy! ;D
http://www.edwardsflighttest.com/b70.html
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