Hi,
the Brabazon Type-3 or Specification 6/45,the known tenders were;
Airspeed,Armstrong-Whitworth and Avro-692 & Avro-693,but can I ask if those
companies involved or not;
Blackburn,Bristol ,De Havilland,Fairey,Folland,Handley Page,Miles,Percival,Scottish Aviation,
Shorts,Vickers and Westland ?.
A knotty design conundrum! Using some 'imagineering', what if the Curtis XP55 'Ascender' and the Kyushu J7W 'Shinden' went into production and both spawned navalised variants for carrier deployment. The thorny issue of deck landing arises; 3-point tricycle landing gear means the awkward...
It is unclear if she was still in service post-World War II, but if she was still around in 1948 it is debatable whether or not she would have been technically entitled to the HMAFV (His Majesty's Air Force Vessel) prefix, given that she wasn't a powered vessel.
According to Spielberger, the Panther was tested with a BMW 132 radial engine. Tests were promising, but the book has no details. Anyone with further information?
Hello and welcome,
This is a hub for all things Kriegsmarine. You will find information, data, and even deductions like this nearly nowhere else - and I take great pride in that.
So if you have a question about the Kriegsmarine, are looking for some specific ship or weapon, or even want...
Hi! The Hawker P.1052 swept-wing version of the Sea Hawk for high speed research.
https://www.baesystems.com/en/heritage/hawker-p1052
"The Hawker P.1052 was an experimental aircraft produced by Haker Siddeley for research and development of swept back wing designs.
As preparations were being...
I'm putting together an article on the Wireless Set No. 10, which deserves to be MUCH better known - it was the first TDM and PCM comms system in the world. Sadly there is very little info on it, but I know that "Wireless for the Warrior" had a relatively detailed description including post-war...
When the Germans realised they needed self-propelled artillery (as opposed to Assault guns) to keep up with the Panzers, their initial efforts involved conversions of various captured vehicles to carry artillery along with the creation of three interim conversions based on tanks already in...
A website devoted to tracking as many of the various iterations of the M4 Sherman as can be determined from surviving documentation.
http://the.shadock.free.fr/sherman_minutia/index.html
After doing rather excessive work on World War-2 era guided weapons of Japan, Italy, Britain, France, USA and USSR, I'm now gathering the data about minor participants. Up to date, I found:
* Romanian radio-controlled tracked mine, invented by general Ion Eremia
* Hungarian acoustic-fused 44M...
Hi, just find an interesting modification of the DUKW amphibian veichle: maybe it is well known, but I think it deserves a thread.
During Overlord preparations, they found that Pointe du Hoc needed to be neutralized by landing forces to prevent the Germans from using the guns positioned there...
british army
british empire
coastal defences
pacific war
royal artillery
singapore
south-east asian theatre
straits settlements
united kingdom
worldwarii
I'm trying to find any record of RAF/Coastal Command of the Ford-built B-24H.
Thus far I've found small references to B-24H-15-FO 42-52776 going to the RAF as VB904. Also, B-24H-20-FO 42-94797 being drawn from USAAF stocks in the UK to the RAF as Liberator B.IV TT340.
Any info on either of...
Here are some interesting projects I wanted to post. Some are actually light mortars. I don't care.
From Britain:
A late WW1 prototype, a humble beginning
https://collections.royalarmouries.org/first-world-war/type/rac-narrative-125.html
From the USSR:
The spade mortar, a jack of 2 trades...
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