20th century

  1. Bailey

    Small tandem rotor helicopters.

    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.
  2. M

    Consolidated-Vultee (Stout, Hall, Convair) flying cars

    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
  3. Triton

    Postwar Beriev flying boat and amphibian projects

    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
  4. overscan (PaulMM)

    RAeS London Lecture: John Piasecki on Piasecki Aircraft Corporation

    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
  5. uk 75

    Royal Navy nuclear surface ships

    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...
  6. cluttonfred

    Concrete submarines

    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...
  7. quellish

    "Lockheed" Penetrating High Altitude Endurance (PHAE)

    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...
  8. Triton

    Non-monohull forms (SWATH, catamarans, tri-marans)

    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...
  9. E

    Italian Never Built Ships from 1975 to today

    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
  10. Antonio

    US airliners guide from Editions Larivière

    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...
  11. TinWing

    Air Defense Ship (ADS)/Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC)/Vikrant-class Carrier

    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...
  12. hesham

    Ducted Fan Aircraft

    Hi, I know many ducted fan aircraft and projects were designed,the Jethawk II project and Marvel aircraft. http://massflow.archivale.com/
  13. Michel Van

    Optical Stealth Possible?

    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...
  14. airman

    Double-Barreled Vehicles

    starting from Mammoth tank on game Command and Conquer...... there some project of tank that have inspired this type of tank ?
  15. P

    Lighter-than-air and hybrid airship concepts

    When was the technology available for the introduction of SkyCats should a demand for their capability arise earlier?
  16. hesham

    Antonov Projects

    Hi, Antonov SKV VTOL aircraft project which led to develope An-14;
  17. P

    Royal Dockyards (never were but not secret..........)

    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...
  18. hesham

    P.V. Engineering and Piasecki Projects & Prototypes

    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...
  19. JAZZ

    SES concepts 1990's

    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.
  20. hesham

    Goodyear aircraft (GA-) and blimps (GZ-)

    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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