jet age

Let’s discuss on a pure technical and engineering feasibility perspective. How practical is a jet age upgrade it can be for these two classes of best IJN aircraft carriers and what might be the possible capacity in the 50s or 60s?

Just heard another starman has passed beyond the reach of mortal earth. Reaching for the stars in perpetuity. RIP, Sir.

Been a while everybody, hope all is well I have had the following photo for some time in my archive. It was and still is a oddity, as to this day I cannot find a solid explanation for what it is. That is to say, I might have a theory now, if you all would allow me. To my knowledge, the photo...

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...

The Germans designed plenty of jet aircraft but which of them were actually good?

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My friend Alejandro Irausquin tagged me today on a Facebook publication emanating from a page entitled Jets 'n' Props. I don't follow aviation pages as a rule, in great part because of all the moronic comments you find there, but I would readily assume that someone with an incentive to create...

Convair: Engineering the Military and Civil Aviation Future

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...

Bell L-39 On March 17, 1947, the U.S. Navy cancelled the contract of the STOL flying saucer Chance Vought XF5U-1. The year 1947 was incredibly special. Just five days before the cancellation of the program, the doctrine to contain the Soviet expansion was announced to Congress by President...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%27s_third_airport Ever since I was a little boy and saw pictures and books about London Airport grown-ups have been trying to find a replacement. In the TV show Thunderbirds it is called London International Airport. By September 1966 the emergence of...

Hi All, As we're hopefully in the final stages of production and to avoid further hijack of other threads.... The vast delta wing form of Avro’s Vulcan has become an iconic symbol of cold war Britain. From starring alongside James Bond in Thunderball to striking improbably distant targets...

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...

Unboxings and reviews of past model kits you may never see anywhere else! https://www.youtube.com/@CelebratingVintageModelKits/videos View: https://youtu.be/kqcAvj-J2Fc View: https://youtu.be/1n_G_2rrq98 View: https://youtu.be/sMzlB7dcyUk

Hello everyone, new here, created an account to post this since I don't see many other places discussing the 2707. I was at the local thrift store(Cleveland, OH, USA) the other day and came across this pretty cool wall art. It's about 5 feet wide and features a blueprint of the 2707 along with a...

View: https://x.com/whatisnuclear/status/1886397754143867189 https://whatisnuclear.com/news/2025-02-03-declassified-nuclear-powered-aircraft-progress-update-manned-flight-film.html View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-8q8INxQEY This is an excellent video with lots of information on the...

A Marx toy TSR2 lookalike on sale on Ebay UK...

Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke, The company was formed by the 1964 merger of two German aerospace firms, Focke-Wulf and Weser Flugzeugbau GmbH (Weserflug). The formation of VFW was a natural outcome, as the two companies had been collaborating, along with Hamburger Flugzeugbau (HFB), in the...

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The Boeing SST in its various guises seemed to be the future of civil aviation and the 747 was designed to be converted easily to cargo lifting when the 2707s arrived in the late 70s. Even Air France and BOAC planned to operate them alongside the Concordes expected to be in service some years...