strategic bomber

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...

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...

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

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?

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...

Back in the '90s, wasn't there supposed to be a Soviet flying wing stealth bomber from Tupolev, the Tu-202 or Tu-404 or something?

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

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

I've looked thru every B-29 book I have or have seen & Googled with no luck. I've read that some of the B-29s sent to the RAF were equipped with racks at the wing roots to carry a Grand Slam bomb under each wing. ISTR also that some USAF a/c were modified as well. I've not been able to find pics...

strange in this forum is almost no info about B-58 version ! B-58 A the SAC bomber version we know B-58 B improved version - kingfish launch platform B-58 C Enlarged version and J-58 jetengine (for mach 3 ?) B-58 D long range interceptor B-58 E tactical strike aircraft and strategic bomber...

[1986]...mission analysis that was conducted by a large number of Air Force and industry organizations. The purpose was to formulate and understand the alternatives for future strategic aeronautical weapon systems and identify promising system concepts to follow those currently in the inventory...

Sometimes projects make themselves discovered in very unlikely places. Last Friday I was in Rome at the Italian Air Force historical archives doing research for my book. On the same table there was my friend Paolo Miana looking for infos on the Italian giant bombers of late 20s -early 30s...

I hadn't seen this posted here before and so I thought I'd post it for the benefit of anyone who hadn't seen it before. Volume I Volume II Volume III Volume IV Not having the benefit of an education in aerospace, what is the meaning of the V Limit Design and V Max Design lines on the first...

Hi, I'm looking for some info (line drawings, specifications) on the Vickers Victory and jet bomber designs of late WW2. The victory was a 6 engined evolution of the Wellington and the 'Jet Bomber' was the intermediate stage on getting to the Valiant. I already have some very high level info...

First published by RIAN on April 24 http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rian.ru%2Fdefense_safety%2Fweapons%2F20070421%2F64103333.html&langpair=ru%7Cen&hl=ru&newwindow=1&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools...

http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPATD176604&id=N1lxAAAAEBAJ&dq=convair+aircraft&jtp=1#PPP1,M1

Curious to know if Concorde was ever considered in a military role, maybe as a recce aircraft or cruise missile platform? Would this have been feasible?

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.