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The biplane fighter reached its peak during the 1930s.
Czechoslovakia built the Avia B-534, Belgium the Fairey Firefly, Italy the Fiat CR.32, The Netherlands the Fokker D. XVII, France the Spad 510, England the Hawker Fury Mk. I, United States the Grumman F2F, Germany the Heinkel He 51, Japan...
UK’S PIONEERING COMBAT AIR FLYING DEMONSTRATOR REVEALED
Industry partners, BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce and MBDA UK, together with the Ministry of Defence, have revealed the design of the UK’s flagship Combat Air Flying Demonstrator, as the aircraft reaches a major milestone, with two thirds of its...
Hello all,
This is my first post. I'm currently researching advanced flight test aircraft and was hoping someone might have cockpit photos, diagrams, MFD page references, or general info. for the following prototypes:
X-62A VISTA (especially how the trainer pilot interacts with it's VSS, SACS...
"Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, is producing a Hybrid-Electric Demonstrator (HEX), a fully-autonomous hybrid-electric vertical-take-off-and-landing (eVTOL) prototype. With a maximum gross weight of more than 7,000-pounds, the uncrewed aircraft will serve as a flying test-bed to evaluate...
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In the mid-1970s, NASA was investigating the subject of Oblique Wing Research Aircraft.
Of course we have all seen the much-publicized NASA/Ames AD-1 "Skew Wing" or Rutan Model 35...
and a modified F-8 Crusader was considered at some point...
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in beginn of 1988, the German Media show picture of a unusual German Prototype
Grob Werke D-450 Egrett-1 a propeller plane with extrem long wings [picture 1]
this was joint Luftwaffe-USAF program "LAPAS" - called in U.S. "Senior Guardian"
Luftgestütztes, abstandsfähiges Primär-Aufklärungssystem...
Hi,
the Rockwell studied in 1986 to developed the Vought F-8 Crusader
aircraft into an oblique wing aircraft with a more slender wing.
http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1986/1986%20-%203119.html
In view of the material already presented in the forum this topic will surely motivate enough crossposting but I believe that the topic deserves to take their own place.
-A 90's proposal of GE for a Super-AWACS. A wind tunnel model existed but I have not gotten pictures of the same one...
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See the source document for more details...
Source:
Bernard Lindenbaum, V-STOL Concepts and Developed Aircraft Volume 1 - A Historical Report (1940-1986)
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