jet age

You are a senior civil servant at the Ministry of Supply just back from your summer holidays in 1950. You've just left the office of the Minister of Supply, George Strauss. He's handed you a big job this time. He wants you to come up with a plan for rationalising the aircraft industry on a...

The A-12 and the later SR-71 used the NAS-14v2 astro-inertial navigation system (ANS) from the 1960s, which was particularly interesting in the pre-GPS times. The set apparently looked like this...

The worlds first test pilots school, our Empire Test Pilots School opened its doors for the first students in 1943, with the first fixed wing course and 2 decades later the first rotary wing course started. One of the graduates of the 1960s course was the late NASA Astronaut Al Worden who passed...

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

https://www.curbside.tv/blog/2017/5/21/ford-levacar-mach-1 https://www.curbside.tv/blog/2018/4/22/when-cars-flew

Messerschmitt Me 262 Development & Politics by Dan Sharp There are many myths surrounding the development of the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter. Its unparalleled performance is beyond doubt; easily able to outpace its opponents and possessing the firepower to shred them in seconds. Yet...

So I was reading " concorde and the Americans" and one of the things that caught my eye was that neither Britain or France were each others first choice. Britain originally wanted to work with America inorder to build the first supersonic jet, but the Americans were set on there mach 2.7 speed...

Most things in technology are evolutionary in nature, but some moments are truly turning points – like a B-47 moment – time could be divided before and after B-47. It is not overdoing to call B-47 a “ mother of all jets “...

Germany was experimenting with various VTOL aircraft during the cold war in the end they didn't go for any of them. in this alternate scenario.. what if Germany did order some into production? 1. Which design would be the most likely to lead to operation? they had the VAK 191, DO 31 (this...

MiG-19 Fake

Over many years I have been trying to find images of Bekonscot model village from the 1960s. Unlike today's Bekonscot which is set frozen in the era of Hercule Poirot and offers an escape from the modern world, the 1960s version used to get updated regularly to reflect the exciting world...

From a report about Safety Aircraft,at Cornell University; here is a weird concept for British VTO Jet Transport Airplane of 1955,I can't ID it,can anyone help ?. - If it was just a hypothetical design,we can transfer it to anther section.

Back in the 1960s a company called Palitoy introduced the American GI Joe figure to the UK market as a toy soldier called Action.Man. Generations of schoolboys have played with them and adults collect detailed versions made specially for enthusiasts. The British Toy industry still existed in...

The late designer and artist, Syd Mead, once reportedly said "I have been trying to ger rid of wheels since 1963". His beautiful floating cars (no ugly rotor fans or troublesome downblast) are as impossible nearly 60 years later, or are they? Probably yes, but if any of you know more?

Dan Cooper is another fighter pilot comic caracter, in the kind of Buck Danny and Tanguy & Laverdure, but Canadian. Author was Albert Weinberg. Know it much less than the other two, but had a few albums as a kid. One album called "Programme F-18" is about the selection of the Hornet by RCAF...

Back in the 1960s Boeing was telling everyone that its Supersonic 2707 transport would be the must-have airliner for the 1970s. Some 26 airlines took out options on the plane. There is a comprehensive thread about the US designs on this site, but no illustrations of the artwork Boeing must have...

From Aviation magazine 1962, was this Ford consider a flying vehicle or not ?.

Hi, I found the topic by that name locked,so I opened that one for Lockheed civil transport aircraft Projects,which haven't known designation numbers,such as CL,GL,Model & L. https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/various-lockheed-civilian-projects.181/#post-211177 And from L+K 14/1970,I...

Hi, here is a Grumman/Gulfstream G.II Projects,the first had lift fan as V/STOL aircraft and the second had a supercritical wing. https://gulfbiz.jimdo.com/h-istory/lift-fan/

Hello to all, friends! Today I had the chance to read and make a review of another book of our friend Konstantin Udalov. Firstly, I must confess that this is the best book wrote by him I ever had the pleasure to read, and also, devoted to Myasishchev projects. As the title suggests, the book...