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I'm fairly new to this place but I've been eager to learn more about the Royal Navy's shift in doctrine (and the various proposed ship-classes as a result to the development in naval technology) following the Second World War. I've seen alot of Tzoil's work here years ago about the GW9A cruisers...

https://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2025/09/falkland-islands-aviation-before-the-argentine-invasion/

https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/exploration-and-innovation/navy-torpedoes.html It is interesting that among other things they don't really mention spar torpedoes.

From,L'Air 1952, what was this ?.

According to a letter in Flight (17 August 1972 issue) Riley Aeronautics looked at replacing the fuselage of the de Havilland Dove with one that could be pressurised, as part of their Riley Dove enhancement programme. The fuselages would have been made by Handley Page. Does anyone have more...

Today past a Legend away Ozzy Osborne was godfather of Heavy Metal He and guys from Black Sabbath defined it sound for decades His life was rollercoaster trip to Haven and Hell and back. Ozzy drug use was same level as legendary Lemmy Killmister, both were good friends like Lemmy manage...

Hi, I'm hoping some of you guys help me find more information on the interwar British 16A design, thanks

Could anyway provide more details? Was this investigated further?

The US avoided becoming the main supplier of Israel until 1968, despite being the major indirect supporter/financier for many years before that. The US preferred Israel buy their weapons from Europe, stepping in when the Europeans couldn't (HAWKs 1964) and wouldn't (tanks when West Germany...

From wiki 1806 Lord Cochrane flies kites from the Royal Navy 32-gun frigate HMS Pallas to spread propaganda leaflets along the coast of France. It is the first use of an aerial device in European maritime warfare. and from here...

RAF Flight Lieutenant Alan Pollock, who flew a Hawker Hunter jet under Tower Bridge and past the Houses of Parliament, has passed away at the age of 89 years. :( Sources: https://www.forcesnews.com/services/raf/flight-lieutenant-alan-pollack-who-flew-raf-plane-under-tower-bridge-dies-age-89...

Chieftan tank sales to Israel, 1968 ...

From Macintyre, Donald. Wings of Neptune: The Story of Naval Aviation (The Evolution of Naval Power Book 2) (p. 106). Sapere Books. Kindle Edition. In the section where the attack on Prince of Wales and Repulse is discussed, he mentions that the night before, 'The searching aircraft found and...

In another thread I mentioned that my group at McDonnell Douglas had come up with a supersonic STOVL fighter/attack airplane that we called Harrier 21. It was supposed to be one of a series of potential AV-8B follow-ons. There was Harrier III Low End, a modest modification of the basic AV-8B...

Years ago, when NASA started sharing its archives online, I spent a lot of time indexing the photos of the various models tested in wind tunnels. I only saved a few of them, thinking that the images were online to stay... only to discover later on that none of the links I had saved to the...

Was surching through the site and was kind of surprised at how little the was on this aircraft, and sense there seems to be a thread on every DH project here one for the DH.116 seems fine. Here's the only images I could find...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8d180yl48po ORIGINAL CAPTION: The hidden and forgotten shelter was filled with water

Many nations were trying to make the take-off and landing distances shorter in the jet age, while still not relinquishing performance and/or payload. Some were better 'baked', like the swing-wing (with shortcoming being that allowed G load was not as good as on the fixed wings, even if titanium...

Hello to you all, i am a new member to this forum & i like a lot of what i see & read here & fulmars !(Feeble naval pun/typo intended!) full marks to you all, however, its only fair that i chip in as well. So here goes it. If you cast your mind back to the air shows of the late 70s & early...