aerospace industry
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A new merger? Cessna parent company to buy Beechcraft
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- 2020s aerospace industry beech aircraft corporation beech holdings cessna aircraft company civil aviation early 2010s general aviation textron inc. united states
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- Forum: Aviation & Space
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A Video about Lost Art of Model Making
I found this video on britishpathe http://www.britishpathe.com/video/model-makers It's about a model factory in Hounslow, Great Britain in 1968 They made Models for Movies industry, Gerry Anderson and Britsh Aerospace Company A Lost Art Form, destroy by CAD, CGI and bad PowerPoint Presentation...- Michel Van
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- aerospace industry british aircraft corporation cold war contractor models great britain jet age model model making movie prop movies space age tv series
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- Forum: User Artwork and Models
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Sustaining the US Defense Industrial Base Report
From the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments; http://www.csbaonline.org/publications/2013/09/sustaining-the-u-s-defense-industrial-base-as-a-strategic-asset/ Report a free download at the link. Haven't yet read the report but it should, IMHO, recommend a 'prototype' agency... -
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Paul Czysz Obituary
Hi All - Found out today that Paul Czysz passed away: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/stltoday/obituary.aspx?n=paul-anthony-czysz&pid=166480027&fhid=16840 Mark- Mark Nankivil
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- 20th century aerospace industry aviation historian aviation history cold war jet age space age space race united states
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- Forum: Aviation & Space
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3D printing technology news
Just came across this over on Slashdot: http://www.fosterandpartners.com/News/492/Default.aspx- Grey Havoc
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- 3d printing additive manufacturing aerospace industry laser sintering
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- Forum: The Bar
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NASA Space Station Concepts
A BELLCOMM, INC. studie from July 23, 1968 by E. D. Marion J. A. Schelke they proposed an smaller Space Station concept against Skylab (and MOL)! Modules launch by Titan IIIM, with modified Gemini B capsule the module are 17 ft long and 15ft ø weight 21,200 to 12,100 lb Power system a 3 kw...- Michel Van
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- aerospace industry cold war nasa post-cold war space age space race space station united states united states air force
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- Forum: Secret Space Projects
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Inertial Navigators in UK
Who can flesh this lot out? 1954: Sperry/UK, licence from Sperry/US: intended for (to be) Blue Streak. Bracknell clean room. Abandoned for: 3/57: Elliott licence from Bosch Arma (ATLAS kit). Rochester clean room. B Streak died 13/4/60 but INS work continued for Blue Steel. 1957: Ferranti...- alertken
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- aerospace industry avionics cold war fleet air arm great britain icbm north atlantic treaty organisation nuclear battlefield royal air force royal navy strategic bomber
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- Forum: Avionics and Military/Naval electronics
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Request for Pix of Palmdale, Downey & other Aerospace facilities
I am interested in exterior and interior shots of the Downey shuttle facility and any images of the buildings/infrastructure used for the shuttle in Palmdale. I will post what few images I have found so far: Downey- ozmosis
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- aerospace industry cold war nasa northrop rockwell international space age space race space shuttle space transportation system united states united states air force
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- Forum: Aviation & Space
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TSR2: Hell-For-Leather
Hell-For-Leather After their nuclear attack against a Soviet industrial target, the crew of this TSR2 dive back to the relative safety of supersonic low-level flight. With the bomber’s cover now broken, a “Shilka” self-propelled anti-aircraft gun is the first enemy unit to respond. As they...- Skyraider3D
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- aerospace industry british aircraft corporation cold war early 1960s english electric company limited free fall nuclear bombs great britain late 1950s north atlantic treaty organisation nuclear battlefield raf bomber command raf germany raf strike command royal air force strategic bomber sub-strategic nuke tactical nuke tactical reconnaissance vickers-armstrongs world war iii
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- Forum: User Artwork and Models
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Fairchild ESV (Experimental Safety Vehicle)
Photographs of Fairchild ESV (Experimental Safety Vehicle). Source: From the Archives at Grumman Memorial Park Calverton, Long Island, New York or The Cradle of Aviation Museum, Garden City, Long Island via Warbird Information Exchange forum...- Triton
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- 1960s 1970s aerospace industry automotive history department of transport department of transportation dot experimental safety vehicle program fairchild hiller fairchild republic national highway safety administration republic aviation division (fairchild hiller) space age united states us aerospace sector
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- Forum: The Bar
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The other UK
Abraham makes a valid point on another thread about what the UK OrBat would look like if things had been different from the end of WWII. SO I think rather than hijacking an existing thread perhaps it would be better to start afresh. Now Abe makes the case that the UK could have left the nuclear...- zen
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- aerospace industry cold war great britain north atlantic treaty organisation nuclear battlefield post-world war ii united kingdom united states
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- Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
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Bigelow Aerospace Space Stations
Bigelow Aerospace has done a major website update: www.bigelowaerospace.com Here's a description of the construction sequence for a planned LEO space station: Graphics of each of the seven stages are attached.- FutureSpaceTourist
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- 2010s aerospace industry cold war ii post-cold war space station united states
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- Forum: Aviation & Space
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Saro designations
Hi all (from Putnam)- AM
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- aerospace industry autogyro bombers british commonwealth british empire cold war fighters fleet air arm glider great britain helicopters north atlantic treaty organisation nuclear powered aircraft royal air force royal navy saro saunders-roe saunders-roe nautical series seaplane
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- Forum: Designation Systems
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McDD Impact of agility requirements on configuration synthesis study (1994)
Impact of agility requirements on configuration synthesis Author(s): Oneil, Patrick J.; Nyberg, Gregory; Deturk, Robin; Seal, Daniel W.; Grethlein, Christian E. Abstract: A configuration design study was performed by McDonnell Douglas Aerospace (MDA) for the NASA Langley Research Center...- flateric
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- 1994 aerospace industry aerostructures airframe avionics early 1990s engines fighter fighters materials mcdonnell douglas nasa langley research center post-cold war united states
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- Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
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Production Line Problems: Grumman A-6
I remember hearing that Grumman had serious problems with the A-6 on the production lines due to it's highly advanced electronics and it having both air-to-air and air-to-ground radars. Assuming it is not classified, does anyone have any specifics on the problems or how serious it was? KJ Lesnick- KJ_Lesnick
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- aerospace industry avionics cold war electronics grumman naval aviation united states united states navy
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- Forum: Aviation & Space
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Siddeley/AWA/Avro Wings, 1936.
Sir John Siddeley, owning AWA, bought Avro, 1928 and promptly funded, not big AWA, but the moth-also-ran sawer and sewer to licence Fokker's wooden wing, for Avro X. In 1932 he patented AWA's alloy wing and funded John Lloyd to design bomber-transport A.W.23 (f/f 4/6/35), from which A.W.38...- alertken
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- 1930s a.v. roe and company / avro aerospace industry air ministry armstrong siddeley great britain hawker siddeley aircraft interwar period late 1920s royal air force
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- Forum: Aviation & Space
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NASA RevCon Program
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/history/pastprojects/RevCon/index.html http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Newsroom/X-Press/2000/June2/frontfull0.html NASA selects nine new projects for RevCon By Beth Hagenauer Aerospace Projects Writer NASA's Office of AeroSpace Technology has selected nine...- flateric
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- 2008 aerospace industry late 2000s nasa united states war on terror
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Northrop F-18L History - you can design a better mouse trap but...
The pictures of F-18L model should make an interesting comparison...- gfi88
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- 1970s aerospace industry air command (canadian armed forces) cold war early 1980s fighter israeli air force mcdonnell douglas north atlantic treaty organisation northrop royal australian air force united states
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- Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
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What became of this Aerospace Company ?
a littel series of, who is who in Aerospace Company and Wat became of them if you wanted, you can correct my errors or missing information, Douglas Aircraft Company founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. in California Ed Heinemann start work there in 1926 as draftsman in WW II they...- Michel Van
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- aerospace aerospace industry cold war post-cold war united states
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- Forum: Aviation & Space
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Airbus "weak dollar death" story contested?
Here is the original November 22 (American Thanksgiving!) story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7108146.stm Here is the wattered down November 23 story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7108872.stm Does this amount to a retraction? Just what did Tom Enders really say?