Three of a kind:-
Photo 1 The McCulloch MC-34 from the U.S.A.
Photo 2 The Chu CJC-3 from Formosa/Taiwan.
Photo 3 The AISA IH-49 from Spain.
Photo's 1 & 2 from The Aircraft of the World, Macdonald 1956.
Photo 3 from Aeroplano magazine No14.
Greetings All -
A friend passed along some scans from the San Diego Air & Space Museum which included a number of Convair designs I was not aware of. First off is the Model 103...
Enjoy the Day! Mark
Models of ekranoplan aircraft carrier and T-20A transport ekranoplan designed by Robert Bartini while at Beriev Aircraft Corporation.
Source: http://www.beriev.com/eng/Pr_rel_e/pr_110e.html
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civil aviation
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flying boat
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russian federation
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soviet union
transport aircraft
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ussr
wig
CIERVA LECTURE
Piasecki: Pioneers in Progress for More Than 60 Years
John Piasecki, President & Chief Executive Officer, Piasecki Aircraft Corporation
Tuesday 6 October 2009
No.4 Hamilton Place, London W1J 7BQ
http://www.raes.org.uk/conference/indexlect.html
2009
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helicopters
piasecki aircraft corporation
post-cold war
royal aeronautical society
united states
although no pictures exist there is supposed to be a model of the proposed RFA replenishment ship with nuclear power in the massive Greenwich collection. I have never been able to get to see this model, but based on some small drawings of mercantile UK reactor designs in an old Airfix magazine...
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admiralty research department
atomic energy authority industrial group
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nuclear royal fleet auxiliary
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swan hunter
united kingdom
united kingdom atomic energy authority
yarrow shipbuilders limited
yarrow-admiralty research department
I am sure that many remember this Popular Mechanics article or one of the many like it back then on a rumoured type of Russian concrete sub with 200 mph Shkval rocket torpedoes:
Concrete Submarines
Cheap and deadly, these stealthy boats could shift the balance of naval power.
December 1998...
In 2006 Nick Cook published an article in Janes, etc. describing a Lockheed project called Penetrating High Altitude Endurance (PHAE). This was described as a HALE UAV much like Polecat, Tier 3, Tier 3-, etc. etc. etc.
Source:
http://www.janes.com/defence/news/idr/idr060321_1_n.shtml
Here's...
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Many years ago I read about SWATH being the ideal hull form for future naval ships because of their superior seakeeping ability to monohulls. There stability made them ideal for carriers according to an article I read in Proceedings of the American Naval Institute.
We breifly saw concept art...
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royal navy
united states
united states navy
vosper thornycroft
yarrow shipbuilders limited
A collection of Italian Never build project for Marina Militare Italiana (MMI) and export customer. I can offer CV, Cruiser, Frigate, Corvette, FAC and PHM
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vstol carriers
Minidocavia 24. Latest adition to that mini guide series.
Les avions de ligne américains. 1913-2008. Alain Pelletier. Ed Larivière.
The list of unbuilt designs included is the following:
Boeing 73 (1926)
Boeing 82 (1927)
Bel Geddes Air Liner nº4 (1932)
Boeing 238 (1933)
General Aviation...
Shortly after the recommissioning of the ex-Hermes as the the INS Viraat in 1987, there were reports from India of long term plans for a 4 carrier fleet,with two new construction hulls and both ex-Hermes/Viraat and ex-Leviathan/Vikrant being retained in service until the late 1990s.
A contract...
you know it from TV
in Star Trek, the Klingons and Romulan use Cloaking device
or in Anime Full Metall Panic, have Invisible Helicopter.
only Sci Fi ? NO !
in 2006 David Schurig and his colleagues at Duke University in Durham,
imagined the first and most primitive Cloaking device .
It...
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science fiction
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thermoptic camouflage
thermoptics
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aerostat
airships
buoyant heavy-lift systems
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lta
nuclear powered aircraft
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war on terror
Does anyone have any additional information on the proposed Royal Dockyard at Northfleet?
Royal Dockyards by Philip MacDougall Pages 134 – 136.
In the light of John Rennie’s great experience as an engineer, it is interesting to consider observations he made on various royal yards in 1807...
From USA,
some Vertol earlier helicopters,
PV-11 :utility helicopter developed from PV-2 for USN.
PV-12 :was a large version of PV-14 also for USN,project only.
PV-17 HRP-2 :was improved metal-clad version of HRP-1 tandem rotor helicopter
with forward-angled transparent...
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cold war ii
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p-v engineering forum
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piasecki-venzie
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united states army
united states navy
world war ii
A number of SES concpts were proposed in the 1990's - France built a demonstrator, so did Germany, and of course Norway put a minecounter measures boat and FAC into production and sweden developed an experimental stealth SES.
this comany was amasing one ,and only we know about it GA-1,2,22,33,39,400,447 and FG series.
can we complete the GA series ?, and we must know there are some airships in that series.
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cold war ii
federal republic of germany
goodyear
goodyear aircraft corporation
goodyear tire and rubber company
goodyear-zeppelin
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united states air force
united states army air service
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