early 1950s

From L'Air 1953, maybe that person French ?.

Hi, has anyone this book ?,and does it contain a projects ...

Found these in the Spanish online patent repository in the aircraft related patent clasif. it was hard for me at first to understand the design as i havent seen much aircraft like this before but it has retractable blades on the side of the plane that spins like a helicopter to make vertical...

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Stumbled across some early 1950s NATO documents concerning the defensive arming and equipping of Merchant Ships. SGS.1 and the 4" Mk 25 are briefly mentioned, although unsurprisingly the vast majority of equipment intended for DEMS was supposed to come from US stocks. There are more documents...

At the end of WW2 the myriad RAF & USAAF combat aircraft were drawn down, scraped or in the UKs case “given back” (either literally to the US or again scraped in the UK). But what would the out of service dates be of these iconic aircraft if the war continued to 1950 or later. Frontline...

On Page 129 of Cruisers of the US Navy 1922-1962, Terzibaschitsch mentions that the USN briefly considered converting the USS Wichita into its first missile cruiser but instead chose Boston (CA-69) and Canberra (CA-70) because they were projected to have longer service lives. Friedman also...

From Boeing magazine 1950, what was these two Boeing designs ?,maybe a generic or ?.

Found this old American film from 1952 which has some good stock footage of early 50s combat aircraft ranging from B29s and B36 to a model Mig 15. View: https://youtu.be/Mg8a9UMqSzY Typical anti Commie era film but full of period flavour.

Was wondering if anyone else remembered this little Tex Avery short from their childhood.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Bs-0a_0Os

Like the other nations of Europe, Spain also wanted to acquire a high-performance assault rifle by recruiting former German engineers. For this purpose, the CETME center was created, which brought together former members of Rheinmetall and Mauser. Hartmut Menneking's group had already been...

Good morning! Here we have a contraption that came to me when I rummaged through some old magazines. It is supposed to be some rudimentary kind of flying car (Flugauto) or roadable helicopter, which apparently flew as a model. The name of the inventor maybe given incorrectly. It is not the...

the heart of the Centaur class carriers is the use of two capital ship plants, producing 76,000shpin total. Hermes got improved plants for 80,000shp. If the RN had driven more powerful plant machinery prior to WWII, then arguably the Centaurs would be larger carriers. Ideally to something...

This is with reference to Norman Friedman's US Aircraft Carriers and his article in Warship No.18. Initially BuShips considered two designs: Scheme A -a carrier with an island capable of operating aircraft with an AUW of 45,000lbs with enlarged after and deck-edge elevators able to strike down...

I was reading my copy of Rebuilding the Royal Navy by D. K. Brown and George Moore. Whilst browsing the second page of the minor war vessels chapter i came across the following statement. “A minehunting variant of the CMS (Thorpe) Class was designed and three ordered , but they were cancelled...

G'day all I'm just going through some old documentation (yes hand written notes, so it's undoughtedly 1990's) and came across the following: "In early 50′s, the new Bundeswehr consideration to produced modernized Panzer V Panther tank with upgraded armament and electronics, but they elected to...

http://www.osti.gov/scitech/biblio/969642-nuclear-powered-aircraft-antisubmarine-warfare

Found at OSTI http://www.osti.gov/scitech/biblio/969600-studies-fourteen-nuclear-powered-airplanes

Cy-27 said that he was working on a Weir designation list which which was the kick in the pants needed to prompt me to finish off my list! ____________________ J&G Weir Company, 1932-1943, and Cierva Autogiro Company (Cierva-Weir), 1943-1951 Weir autogyros and helicopters received simple...