late 1980s

Back in the 80s it was finally realised that the Avro Shackleton AEW was obsolete and later that the Nimrod AEW.3 project was very unlikely to work correctly. The UK Government and MoD went looking for a replacement and settled on the E-3D Sentry which entered RAF service in 1990. What were the...

Space transfer concepts and analysis for exploration missions. Implementation plan and element description document. Volume 1: Major trades. Book 1: Draft final Abstract: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19930013159_1993013159.pdf Space transfer concepts and analysis for...

Hi, http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1990/1990%20-%203106.html

In a story called 'The Last War' by Jan Nienmczyk http://www.tboverse.us/HPCAFORUM/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=1914&st=0&sk=t&sd=a He mentions a 1988 proposal to turn two flat steel product ships into CVE for the RAN, this never happened due to opposition from the CNS but does anyone have any...

I have been looking for information on this un-named Iranian Half-Track APC for sometime since reading about it in Jane's Armour & Artillery sometime in the 1990's. If anyone has a picture of it, my appreciation and thanks in advance...

[1986]...mission analysis that was conducted by a large number of Air Force and industry organizations. The purpose was to formulate and understand the alternatives for future strategic aeronautical weapon systems and identify promising system concepts to follow those currently in the inventory...

French concept for an aircraft carrier put forward in 1985 - 24,000 tonnes overall length 220m and beam of 60m. Have this interesting drawing, I am looking for an artists impression of this concept. Two centre catapults are 75m long and can launch 22t aircraft, less powerful ones either side can...

Hi, the BAe SSBJ of 1986 was designed for the future as business jet supersonic aircraft project http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1986/1986 - 2306.html

Hi, please see the Flightglobal; http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1987/1987%20-%200980.html

Hi, please see the Flightglobal; http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1987/1987%20-%200980.html

Hi, the Rockwell studied in 1986 to developed the Vought F-8 Crusader aircraft into an oblique wing aircraft with a more slender wing. http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1986/1986%20-%203119.html

Screen capture with rare view of YF-22NX (second, PW F-119 equipped prototype) with nose cone removed, towed from hangar after cosmetiс restoration of airframe, damaged by PIO crash in April 1992.

I was wondering if anybody knows anything more about the NATF & pre-NATF Tomcat replacement proposals.The only one i know about is the Lockheed swing-wing NATF proposal that is based on the F-22.I've read that they chose swing-wings because it was the easiest way to offer F-22 performance and to...

Looking up about BAC's MUSTARD project has reminded me of Project Greenglow (its in the JBIS Space Chronicle edition looking at UK Spaceplanes). What are people's views on Greenglow?

Found at NTRS MULTIPLE APPLICATION PROPFAN STUDY (MAPS) ADVANCED TACTICAL TRANSPORT F. C. Newton, R. H. Liebeck, G. H. Mitchell, A. Mooiweer, M. M. Platte, T. L. Toogood, and R. A. Wright Douglas Aircraft Company McDonnell Douglas Corporation Prepared for National Aeronautics and Space...

I'm looking for information about a little-publicized US program in the mid-to-late 1980s for an intercontinental cruise missile. It was intended to have a 6000 nm range, Lockheed, Boeing, and General Dynamics were the candidate contractors, and three designs (subsonic, supersonic, and...

Contenders 1).Boeing 2). GD 3).Texas Instruments 4).? ----------------------------- Boeing LRCSW From AIAA-92-0082 "A basic objective of the study was to develop a missile system design concept that would meet the mission requirements shown in figure 1. The missile program was the Long Range...

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Hi Everyone! I'm very interested in the Grob G850 Strato 2C, (a research aircraft), and I was wondering if anyone had any three-views of this aircraft and if so, could you possibly post them on this website. I'd like to do some illustrations of this aircraft and possibly a scratch-built model...

OK I have been a bit slack, thought I would put some information together on the development of PZL's Skorpion SABA. feel free to point out errors or add to it. I will post the information as jpegs.