1950s

Wat i know physicist named Plante proposed a energy source in 1950s were compress oxygen and nitrogen is burn with electric arc until become a Ball lightning was used as energy source of 20 million Joule Edgar p. Jacobs used that concept in his comic "S.O.S. Meteors: Mortimer in Paris" I saw a...

November 1945 Deputy Controller indicates that nine CVs would be needed for 1950. This being at that time the three Ark Royal Class and the other six being Illustriouses. At wars end HMS Eagle is 23% completed. Fifth Sea Lord considered the Illustriouses not worth modernising, the money better...

During February 1955, Ralph Bayless and his Convair associates produced the N-2 series of proposed transport designs for Howard Hughes' TWA. These appeared to satisfy the airline's requirements. By this time the commercial availability of the Pratt & Whitney JT-3 jet engine was certain, and that...

I am a new member so I apologise if anything is not as it should be I am looking for information on the Vickers 4 inch medium anti aircraft gun prototypes built i think in the early middle 1950's The gun was designed as a medium AA gun to supplement the Heavy anti aircraft gun Green Mace. I...

In the back of the excellent 'From RAINBOW to GUSTO', there is a timeline of significant events, in the RAINBOW/GUSTO, project. One of the entries in this timeline in the very cryptic '195612/23 First LH2 B-57 flight in Project Bee' there is no other reference to 'Project Bee' anywhere...

In the mid-1950s it was decided to increase the Royal Navy presence in the Falkland Islands dependencies. It was hoped to build a new icebreaker and the United States Navy made the plans of the Wind-class icebreaker available. British engines were selected that made the ship much longer. The...

Slight resummarization of information in an article I wrote on Nuclear Subsurface Weapons Effects HERE... The SQUAWs were simplified 4/5th scale models of SS 563 Tang class submarines 134 feet long, with 14.5 foot diameter pressure hulls constructed of 1” thick HTS plate with a yield strength...

Yes, Sikorsky. This a kind of post an "enthusiast" could have well done (see here for explanations http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,7352.msg63880.html#msg63880 ;) ). Perusing the 1959 Aviation Week year I stumbled on this project. Designer was Michael Gluhareff, Sikorsky's...

Sources regarding esp. the M.148T requirement for carrier-based strike aircraft, which then resulted in the Blackburn Buccaneer, mention as one of the aircraft's weapons unguided rockets referred to as the OR.1099, where the "OR" abbreviation stands, as I understand, for 'operational...

Hi all, have found a list of the projects by the british Aviation Traders. Also a pic of the ATL.96 project. Do you have pics or drawings of the projects ATL.91/ATL.92/ATL.93/ATL.95 and ATL.99???? Regards Maveric

No further data apart from whats on the drawings (better version on my blog - http://up-ship.com/blog/). These precede, at least numerically, the CL-282, which was Lockheed's first official stab at the U-2. They look to be lighter-constructed than the U-2.

I understand that the first Vought A2U-1 (the attack version of the F7U Cutlass) was almost complete when it was cancelled on 18 November 1954. Does anybody know what happened to the airframe (and any others that there may have been). Was it just scrapped or was it use for a F7U Cutlass, and, if...

while researching for the 'pave gat' thread, i came across this, in 'B-57 Canberra at war 1964-1972', "As the first B-57s came off the production line in june 1954, Martin proposed to the AF a 'Utility Courier' based on the basic Canberra airframe. A passenger compartment seated 6-11 extende...

Hi, the AW flying wing transport aircraft project from 1946. http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1946/1946%20-%201395.pdf

In the book Project Cancelled there is a whole chapter devoted to the British Army project for a "Jumping Jeep" which could leap across obstacles using jump jets/rotorfans. The winning bid from BAC was under development until the mid 60s when it was cancelled on cost and practicality grounds...

Some time ago in a website that in the meantime disappeared from the Internet I found several pictures of an armoured personnel carrier that had been designed (and built as a prototype) in Canada sometime in the 1950s. According to the website its designation was the XA-20. Unfortunately there...

In a German forum (http://www.network54.com/Forum/240281/message/1090833080/) I have just found a very intersting drawing showing what is allegedly a tank designed in Germany by Daimler-Benz/Porsche in the mid-1950s for India. Here is the drawing: Has anybody here ever heard of such a...

This radar formed the basis of the AWG-9, and was the first lookdown/shootdown weapons system. Originally developed for the North American F-108 interceptor, the origins of AN/ASG-18 lie in 1954, when alongside a new interceptor competition a competition was held to design a radar with a 100nm...

Hi Everyone! Presented here is a three-view line drawing (I have little else information) on the Hawker P.1108, one of the aircraft that competed with the ultimate winner of the contract, Blackburn. The only information given besides the three-view, is the following: "Two-seat Naval Strike...

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