My biggest question regarding the Lockheed Suntan program is why they bothered investigating hydrogen turbojets in the first place. The best advantage I can think of was the ability to achieve the desired speed and range with an airframe that was much lighter than anything else in its size...
central intelligence agency
cold war
hydrogen powered vehicles
late 1950s
lockheed
pratt & whitney
skunk works
strategic air command
strategicreconnaissance
united states
united states air force
avionics tech refresh upgrade
central intelligence agency
cold war
cold war ii
lockheed
lockheed aircraft corporation
lockheed martin
nasa
post-cold war
royal air force
skunk works
spyplane
strategic air command
strategicreconnaissance
united states
united states air force
usaf
war on terror
Britain's Avro 730 supersonic bomber concept was the first kit produced by Fantastic Plastic. (It was released in October 2005). After being out of production for almost two years, I've brought it back as a new, improved model.
Whereas the first kit was a simple "tabletop" model, Version 2.0...
1960s
a.v. roe and company / avro
alternate history
avro 730
bomber
cold war
great britain
model
nuclear battlefield
raf bomber command
royal air force
strategicreconnaissance
supersonic
The first model I did for Fantastic Plastic back in 2004 was the British Avro 730 bomber in 1/144 scale. Last year I was asked to re-visit the model. I completely rescribed it, added cockpit, landing gear and bomb bay details, and just generally improved the hell out of it. The first time...
1960s
a.v. roe and company / avro
alternate history
avro 730
bomber
cold war
great britain
model
nuclear battlefield
raf bomber command
royal air force
strategicreconnaissance
supersonic
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
1945
boeing
late 1940s
post-world war ii
reconnaissance bomber
strategic bomber
strategicreconnaissance
united states
united states army air forces
world war ii
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
In 1959 G.K.C.Pardoe, Chief Coordinator/balistic missiles at DeHavilland Propellers Ltd.
made several proposals to use the Blue Streak as the basis for a sattelite transport
system.
- The first shown would combine the Blue Streak with a solid propellant second stage,
where the payload would have...
british commonwealth
cold war
communications satellite
european launcher development organisation
great britain
icbm
reconnaissance satellite
royal air force
space age
space race
spy sat
strategicreconnaissance
western europe
I must preface this first look review by saying that, while I'm interested in space technology, its not my speciality, so I'm approaching this book from this angle.
Bill Rose has put together a well written and nicely illustrated book on various military space projects. Its 192 pages long and...
anti-satellite
cold war
early 21st century
electronic warfare
elint
great britain
late 20th century
nasa
photographic reconnaissance
post-cold war
signals intelligence
soviet union
space weapons
spaceplane
ssto
strategicreconnaissance
tactical reconnaissance
third reich
united states
world war ii
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...
asat
bomber
cold war
convair
nuclear battlefield
strategic air command
strategic bomber
strategicreconnaissance
tactical nuke
united states
united states air force
[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...
aeronautical systems division
air force systems command
boeing
cold war
hypersonic
late 1980s
lockheed
mcdonnell douglas
nuclear battlefield
rockwell international
rockwell space transportation systems division
space weapons
strategic air command
strategic bomber
strategicreconnaissance
supersonic
tactical nuke
united states
united states air force
world war iii
anti-tank
cold war
fuerza aérea mexicana
imperial iranian air force
nasa dryden flight research center
north atlantic treaty organisation
österreichische luftstreitkräfte
royal australian air force
royal saudi air force
sead
strategicreconnaissance
tactical reconnaissance
united arab emirates air force
united states
united states air force
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...
chemical powered bomber
cold war
general electric aircraft engines
heavy bomber
north american aviation
nuclear battlefield
strategic air command
strategic bomber
strategicreconnaissance
supersonic
united states
united states air force
Flight's 9 April 1964 was a TSR.2 special issue, with lots of adverts and one of the first in depth articles.
Front page
http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1964/1964%20-%200984.pdf
Article
http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1964/1964%20-%201014.pdf
through to...
british aircraft corporation
cold war
great britain
ministry of supply
north atlantic treaty organisation
nuclear battlefield
raf bomber command
royal air force
royal australian air force
strategicreconnaissance
t.s.r.2
tactical nuke
tactical reconnaissance
tsr-2
tsr.2
tsr2
united kingdom
western europe
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?
alcm
cold war
electronic warfare
elint
great britain
hypersonic
nuclear battlefield
raf strike command
royal air force
sigint
signals intelligence
strategic bomber
strategicreconnaissance
supersonic transport
tactical reconnaissance
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...
air defence
air defense command
central intelligence agency
cold war
elint
interceptor
lockheed
nuclear battlefield
photo-recce
post-cold war
remote sensing
sr-71
strategic air command
strategic defence
strategicreconnaissance
supersonic
united states
united states air force
vietnam war
world war iii
1960s
1970s
1980s
air defence
air defense command
central intelligence agency
cold war
interceptor
lockheed
skunk works
strategic air command
strategic defence
strategicreconnaissance
united states
united states air force
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.
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central intelligence agency
cold war
great britain
interceptor
interceptors
kingdom of sweden
lockheed
north atlantic treaty organisation
royal air force
royal swedish air force
skunk works
soviet air defence forces
soviet union
strategic air command
strategicreconnaissance
united states
united states air force
v-pvo
vietnam war
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)...
From "Were the Wrights Right?" by B R A Burns in Air International December 1983
The Avro design is the late 730 design, the other two designs were labelled as Handley Page and Vickers, but transposed (the Handley Page design is known from Secret Projects: Jet Bombers). The third design...
air ministry
avro 730
bomber
bombers
great britain
late 1950s
ministry of supply
nuclear battlefield
raf bomber command
royal air force
strategicreconnaissance
supersonic
united kingdom
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