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  1. J

    CA-12 Boomerang Evolution

    In July 1940 the hounded British government warns the Australians of an imminent embargo of any aviation materials. On 10 December 1941 the capital ships of the Royal Navy H.M.S. Prince of Wales and H.M.S. Repulse are sunk by Japanese airplanes. On 21 December of the same month, the firm...
    • Justo Miranda
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    • british commonwealth british empire commonwealth aircraft corporation commonwealth of australia curtiss-wright corporation general electric pacific ocean theater post-world war ii pratt & whitney rolls-royce royal australian air force world war ii wright aeronautical corporation
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Secret Early Aircraft Projects
  2. C

    Replacing the Pratt & Whitney J57 with the General Electric J79?

    The following United States military aircrafts of the Cold War were equipped with the Pratt & Whitney J57 axial-flow turbojet engines: Convair F-102 Delta Dagger Douglas A3D Skywarrior McDonnell F-101 Voodoo North American F-100 Super Sabre Vought F-8 Crusader Douglas, McDonnell, and Vought...
  3. T

    GE Blazer air defence turrets

    air defence turrets with gau-12 and gau-13 gatling gun
    • tround
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    • 1980s air defence air defense artillery branch battlefield air defence cold war faads-los-fh forward area air defense general electric los-f-h spaag spad u.s. army united states army
    • Replies: 31
    • Forum: Secret Army Projects
  4. Tuomasn

    General Electric turbine engines

    Whilst doing something else I decided to compile a list of General Electric turbine engines with "GExx" designations. GE has obviously used also other designation series, so anyone who wants can add those. Also, as usual, any additions or corrections are welcome. Note that I'm not certain if the...
    • Tuomasn
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    • cold war cold war ii early 21st century general electric general electric aircraft engines general electric company jet age late 20th century post-cold war space age united states
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Designation Systems
  5. K

    Pratt & Whitney J-91 vs General Electric J-93 GE-1, GE-3, and GE-5 Questions

    Normally, I would just look through my books but I don't have very much information about the J-91 other than it had a 9-stage compressor, a twin-stage turbine, a 7:1 pressure-ratio, a trans-sonic compressor, a 55-inch diameter, and that the J-58 was an 80% scaled down version with a higher...
    • KJ_Lesnick
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    • cold war general electric general electric company pratt & whitney
    • Replies: 19
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  6. Michel Van

    MEM: the Mars Excursion Module of the 1960s

    better know as Mission Engineering Study of Electrically Propelled Manned Planetary Vehicles GE began the study for MSFC in July 1966. they proposed to uses both nuclear-thermal and nuclear-electric propulsion. Nuclear ionengine give mission flexibility also for unfavorable opportunities and...
    • Michel Van
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    • 1960s 1967 cold war contractor models deep space probes general electric late 1960s manned mars marshall space flight center model nasa nasa marshall space flight center north american aviation nuclear power nuclear rockets nuclear-electric propulsion post-apollo space age space probes space race united states
    • Replies: 144
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  7. boxkite

    SOR 206 : E-3 AWACS competitors

    Hi, it's my first day at the forum. So I want to ask for a very ordinary subject. Besides the later winner of the AWACS competition, the Boeing EC-137D (early_awacs_2.jpg shows an early configuration with radome mounted on the tip of the tail), there was another competitor, a DC-8 development...
    • boxkite
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    • adcom aerospace defense command air force systems command awacs boeing cold war douglas aircraft company early 1970s general electric hughes aircraft company late 1960s lockheed mcdonnell douglas north atlantic treaty organisation raytheon tactical air command united states united states air force western electric (weco) westinghouse electric corporation
    • Replies: 146
    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
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