late 1940s

Hi all, many refs state that the He 1079 would have had 6 machine guns/cannons; 4 firing forward, housed under the cockpit/nose. The remaining 2 were to have been rearward firing, but I can't work out where and how they might have been positioned and housed. The fuselage is very slim. Any...

From L'Air 1953, maybe that person French ?.

A very good site,and my dear PaulMM spoke about it before, https://whatisnuclear.com/the-story-of-the-atomic-airplane.html https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/aircraft-nuclear-propulsion-program-manned-aircraft-progress-report-1956-1958-video.45325/

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...

I am not a fan of ATL./AH. scenarios but found this article in a 1946 issue of ATC. Gazette proposing a 'World Organisation' 'International Air Force' of interest. Who knows such an idea may have led to a UN. with teeth and negated the need for organisations such as NATO. etc. :)

Trying to figure out which countries could actually handle the cost of light fleet carriers in 1946-60, so do we have any actual data at what prices the Colossus and Majestic class ships were sold by Britain in 1946-60? And for that matter how much their modernization with angled fight decks and...

Ho, for this competition,the main tenders were; SARO P.104,P,162,Blackburn B-78,Supermarine 524 and Shorts PD.2,has anyone a drawings to Blackburn and Shorts proposals ?.

Part of the one documentary threads on this channel. States it’s considered one of the worst aircraft to fly with the RAF. View: https://youtu.be/OO_t3HFGrhw?si=BJGkVc9QwQeiINZa

I'm posting this in the post war section, but it is possible, given it's title that it may be a interwar project. I came across this proposal from Short Bros for an eight-engined long range flying boat. I have checked throughout the site but without any luck. Wonder if anyone can fill in the...

I an sure I will call down a whole host of ‘trouble’ on my head for raising this, but, Here we go… We all know that the Royal Navy post WW2 was in an invidious position regards available finance and the shifting sands of changing priorities. One thing I think was the (in retrospect at least)...

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At the end of WW2 the myriad RAF & USAAF combat aircraft were drawn down, scraped or in the UKs case “given back” (either literally to the US or again scraped in the UK). But what would the out of service dates be of these iconic aircraft if the war continued to 1950 or later. Frontline...

I have come across some information on the proposed VC.4 three-engined transatlantic airliner project of 1949. Information on the VC.4 was used to demonstrate aerodynamic drag issues in a Royal Aeronautical Society lecture by E. J. Edwards on 24 November 1949 entitled A Review of Aerodynamic...

In the US Carriers book, Friedman mentions that after the war, considerations had to be made in carrier designs for a "14-inch rocket", that did not progress far enough to enter service: The only information on this rocket I could find comes from the Wikipedia article on the Tiny Tim: (I would...

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On Page 129 of Cruisers of the US Navy 1922-1962, Terzibaschitsch mentions that the USN briefly considered converting the USS Wichita into its first missile cruiser but instead chose Boston (CA-69) and Canberra (CA-70) because they were projected to have longer service lives. Friedman also...

When browsing Vickers Tyne & Wear Archive I noticed a really intersting and obscure design proposal. Not only by the strangely long barrel, sci-fi look turret (this is a 1946 drawing), but also the insane stats and unique operating mechanism. I also cannot find any information of this proposal...

Douglas Model 1015 or Cloudster II Source: View: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/4589804021/in/photostream/ View: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/4590424336/in/photostream/

From The Spangenberg Index, could be the US Navy was responsible about that contest,it was about Rescue and Utility Helicopter,and the tenders were; - United Helicopters (Hiller) L-3 - Kellett - Higgins H-3 - McDonnell H-3 - Fleetwing Model-52 - Sikorsky For McDonnell,it was Model-42,about...

Like the other nations of Europe, Spain also wanted to acquire a high-performance assault rifle by recruiting former German engineers. For this purpose, the CETME center was created, which brought together former members of Rheinmetall and Mauser. Hartmut Menneking's group had already been...