Well, don't forget Iran... it's a well-known fact that some upgraded Arrows found their way to Iran in 1972. The Shah was exasperated by Soviet Mig-25RB overflying its country... Phantoms were not powerfull enough, F-14 and F-15 were prototypes five years from export...
Iranian Arrows scared...
Hi folks,
I recently came across Adrian Mann's (rather fine) "Illustration of a Vickers Type 432 firing an Artemis air-to-air missile", at:
https://www.strata.com/showcase_detail.asp?id=2051&category=67
(I take it the target is an Me-264.) Does anyone know if the Vickers 432 was ever...
Wingknut
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1940s
air-to-air missile
aviation art
bomber destroyer
great britain
high altitude
interceptor
royal air force
royal aircraft establishment
vickers
vickers-armstrongs limited
what-if
world war ii
Over many years I have gathered together brochures and artwork (cards ads etc) for the Boeing SST
So far I have artwork for the following:
Airlift (photo of broken model from ebay)
Alitalia (drawing in brochure)
Braniff (image from Internet site)
Continental (photo of model in brochure-meatball...
American studies into a supersonic transport go back to the 1950s when various versions were proposed by Convair based on the B-58 Hustler. Things remained paper studies until John F. Kennedy moved plans ahead in July of 1961 with the formation of a presidential committee made up of members of...
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