A few years ago when researching the photo archive of Kon. Mij. De Schelde succeeded by Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding I traced the next dia's, probably part of a lecture although without technical details
In 1987 the Royal Netherlands Navy began studying an 8,000 ton LST for the 1993-97 construction programme which would have the capacity to carry 600 Marines.
This pre-dates the LSD effort which began in 1990 which resulted in the Rotterdam-class. These have a capacity for 600 troops but offer...
One of my continuing interests and a strength of this site is information about Royal Navy ships that never left the drawing board.
Recently.not so much has been published about these designs so I thought I would start this thread.
Many projects have there own threads and are well known to...
british commonwealth
british empire
british shipbuilders
cammell laird
coldwar
great britain
interwar period
pre-world war i
swan hunter
vickers-armstrongs
vsel
world war i
world war ii
yarrow shipbuilders limited
In the January 16, 2020 article "Triplesonic Interceptors: The F-103, F-108, and YF-12A", Tony R. Landis of the Air Force Material Command History Office briefly mentioned an "I-70" interceptor version of the North American Aviation XB-70 Valkyrie. According to Landis (2020), the "I-70" was...
Well-known French journalist, author, pilot, THE voice of aerial meetings in France (La Ferté-Alais air show, Salon du Bourget air show, Paris Villaroche Air Legend and so on). He was 78 y.o.
I've just heard that Harrier and P1216 designer Ralph Hooper passed away yesterday.
He was 96, and in my view, Britain's greatest ever aircraft designer.
Ralph explained his achievements modestly but clearly to the many who asked.
Glad we asked him to do so for a video a few years back...
aerospace
aerospace industry
british aerospace plc
coldwar
cranfield college of aeronautics
cranfield university
great britain
hawker aircraft limited
hawker siddeley aviation ltd
royal aeronautical society
Good Day All -
From the collection of the late Mike Burke "The Artist", this is a engineer opportunities brochure with artwork that may be of interest. Guessing mid-'60s as the OH-6A first flew in 1963.
Enjoy the Day! Mark
1980s
1990s
coldwar
computing
early 21st century
kingdom of the netherlands
late 20th century
national institute for subatomic physics
nikhef
post-coldwar
This was apparently being developed for the Soviet T-4 and DSB-LK hypersonic bomber and were also planned for the Tu-160.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-45
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed5CYLk6B5Y&t=500s
I recently bought a NIB copy of the Revell "Laser Battle Stations" model kit from 1984. There were a number of other kits released at the same time that all have connections to reports and concepts (see images) but these "laser battle stations" are a bit hard to place. They appear to be modeled...
a.v. roe and company / avro
austin motor company
coldwar
france
great britain
lincolnshire aviation heritage centre
marine nationale
raf bomber command
royal air force
world war ii
How about a thread on the J-12 ? I noticed that there was none !
It is a jet that I like and I will try to collect in this thread some interesting things about it.
This was idea I had reading the merage IV threads, the idea being the the lockheed bribery scandal breaks in Germany befor the deal goes though leading to anything American becoming politically toxic, this leads to Germany (and though them the rest of the nato f-104 block) to buy the Mirage III...
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