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    Nazi Post-War Airliner Projects

    What would civilian aviation look like had Nazi Germany won World War II? Since the outlook was optimistic for them until about 1942, many German manufacturers invested in designing and even building luxurious transatlantic airliners for planned post war use. What were some of these projects...
  2. A

    Breguet Stratospheric Transports

    Hello, my first time starting a thread on here so excuse me if I did something wrong. Between 1941 and 1945 Breguet studied a series of 3 aircraft projects of very large proportions designed to carry large quantities of passengers and freight at high altitudes. The projects were known as the...
  3. Stargazer

    Sea Cheetah hydrogen WIG

    Source: AEROSPACE Magazine, November 2024 Official website: https://seacheetah.com/
  4. GTX

    KC-10 tanker

    Starting thread at the end... https://www.twz.com/air/final-kc-10-extender-tanker-sent-into-retirement
    • GTX
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    • advanced tanker cargo aircraft program air force reserve command air mobility command boeing cold war cold war ii early 21st century in-flight refueling tanker late 20th century mcdonnell douglas post-cold war strategic air command tanker aircraft transport aircraft united states air force war on terror
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
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    Short Skyvan projects

    I am currently writing a book on the Short Skyvan. I wonder if anyone has information (description, drawings etc) on Shorts project P.D.50 described as a "Skyvan VTOL test-bed", and P.D.62 listed in the Putnam as "Skyvan with B.L.C" but elsewhere as "Skyvan Feeder Liner". Both seem quite...
    • Aeroflight
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    • cessna aircraft company coin aircraft cold war great britain republic of vietnam republic of vietnam air force (rvnaf) short brothers plc short skyvan south vietam stol transport aircraft united states united states army vietnam war
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  6. hesham

    Bristol Buckingham Freighter Project

    From Air Pictorial 1949, here is a profile drawing to this project.
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    Airbus A300-600ST Beluga

    The Airbus Beluga STs have been retired from Airbus service. They were transferred to a new company, Airbus Beluga Transport, which will operate the aircraft (which still have 10-20 years of airframe life) on the commercial charter market. Airbus announced this on 25 January 2022. View...
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    Design challenge: next generation heavy-lift cargo plane?

    Given the recent destruction of the only Antonov 225 super heavy lift cargo plane ... what will the next generation of heavy lift planes look like? What is the biggest cargo they will carry? What is the widest cargo? Tallest cargo? Longest cargo? Heaviest cargo? How heavy? How fast? How long...
    • riggerrob
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    • airborne forces airmobile antonov beluga cargo cold war ii guppy transport aircraft
    • Replies: 110
    • Forum: Aircraft Design
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    Post Battle of Britain: Luftwaffe/Axis options

    Similar to the post-BoB RAF: what might've Luftwafe/RLM do after Autumn of 1940 in order to improve their standing, both in short-term (next 12 months) and long-term (a few next years). I've also included 'Axis' term here - mostly European Axis countries' air forces/services - since they can be...
    • tomo pauk
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    • airborne forces alternate history axis powers battle of britain early 1940s empire of japan fighters heavy bomber ilmavoimat imperial japanese army air service imperial japanese navy air service kingdom of italy luftwaffe nazi germany regia aeronautica royal hungarian air force royal romanian air force third reich transport aircraft world war ii
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    • Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
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    Douglas Model 2007 COD transport

    The book American Secret Projects: US Airlifters Since 1962 describes in detail the Model 2007 carrier on-board delivery aircraft project, which was basically a scaled-down Model 1906A with a swing-tail loading arrangement. Two versions of the Model 2007 were envisaged, the four-engine Model...
  11. AN/AWW-14(V)

    C-17 Modernization

    https://www.ang.af.mil/Portals/77/documents/Resources/2019%20Mod%20Book%20v2.pdf?ver=2019-05-30-122634-043
    • AN/AWW-14(V)
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    • 2020s air mobility command airlift airlifter boeing cold war ii late 2010s post-cold war transport aircraft united states united states air force united states transportation command
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
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    Douglas - Very Large Cargo Concepts

    Hi All - I have had some communications with Dave Beigle (Douglas Artist - see: http://www.dave-beigle-art-enterprises.com/aviation-artwork-memorabilia/ ) and ordered some of his artwork. Looks like the prints are done on a home PC printer but the subject more than makes up for the quality...
  13. hesham

    Columbia Aircraft Corporation 'Uncle Sam' Transoceanic Aircraft Project

    Hi, The Columbia Aircraft Corporation and the designers,Edmund Changiard and Alexander Kartveli created the Uncle Sam,it was a transoceanic transport all metal aircraft,with cantilever wing looks like a blended wing,and powered by three engines,all details are in Les Ailes journal and in...
    • hesham
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    • airliner civil aviation columbia aircraft corporation interwar period late 1920s transport aircraft united states
    • Replies: 29
    • Forum: Secret Early Aircraft Projects
  14. Triton

    Northrop T-38-based VIP transport concept

    Model of Northop T-38-based VIP transport. Source: http://ghostmodeler.blogspot.de/2012/09/talons-in-space-northrops-n-205-proposal.html
    • Triton
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    • business jet cold war northrop transport transport aircraft united states united states air force vip transport
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
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    C-17B Globemaster

    I'm looking for information, technical data, 3-line drawings, pictures etc about projects based on C-17 Globemaster III ( for example C-17B ).
    • masqqqq
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    • air mobility command airborne command post albm boeing cold war electronic warfare mcdonnell douglas military airlift command north atlantic treaty organisation post-cold war strategic air command transport aircraft united states air force war on terror
    • Replies: 25
    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
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    USAAF Heavy Cargo and Troop Transport competition

    Hi All! In early 1946, USAAF issued a preliminary specification for a 50,000 pounds payload Heavy Cargo and Troop carrier type aircraft. My opinion these manufacturers were participating of this competition: Fairchild Model 99 Lockheed Model L-168 Martin Model 240 (?) (?)...
    • nugo
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    • airborne forces airlift late 1940s post-world war ii transport aircraft united states army air forces
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  17. Triton

    North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco

    North American Rockwell OV-10D NOS (Night Observation Surveillance) Bronco Source: http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?65214-OV-10-Bronco-commercial-catalog-%28issue-1964%29/page2
    • Triton
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    • air observation post battlefield reconnaisance coin aircraft cold war forward air control light armed reconnaissance aircraft north american aviation observation aircaft philippine air force post-cold war royal thai air force special operations tactical reconnaissance transport aircraft united states united states air force united states marine corps united states navy vietnam war war on terror
    • Replies: 53
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  18. Sundog

    Boeing KC-46A Tanker/Transport

    website is up.
    • Sundog
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    • 2010s air mobility command boeing in-flight refueling tanker kc-x post-cold war tanker aircraft transport aircraft united states air force war on terror
    • Replies: 113
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  19. Bill S

    Vought E-101 Transport

    Please forgive if this has been posted before, I did a search for Vought and found mainly Postwar projects. This is the E-101 Transport aircraft. Again a variation in Vought's numbering system. From Vought Archives Enjoy!
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    XAC Y-20 Kunpeng

    Hi Everyone! My apologies if this has been posted before here. Has any more information come out on the AVIC-1 transport aircraft design from the PRC? Chuck
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    • airborne early warning cold war ii no. 603 aircraft design institute people's liberation army air force people's republic of china transport aircraft xac (prc) xi'an aircraft company limited xi'an aircraft industrial corporation
    • Replies: 359
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
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