In Volume 59 Supplement 2, 2006 of BIS’s Space Chronicles – UK Spaceplanes, there is mention on Page 107 of a R. H Francis from Hawker Siddeley presenting a paper
‘believed to be in Virginia around the late 1960’s, where he showed a configuration identical to that of the US Space Shuttle...
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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...
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Stuff that too late I've found at eBay already being sold to other eBayer, but it proves that AGM-129 scale drawings were released by GD. All my attempts to contact buyer went nowhere. Anyone happy to have those and can share/sell them?
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Greetings:
Who would like to tell me how many swing-wing vertions of F-4 PhantomII has existed? Would you please take trouble to show me those drawing?
Thanks in advance
Pometablava...
Joe Baugher's website has a whole paragraph on the subject.
From the website
http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/f4_1.html
The design of what was eventually to emerge as the McDonnell F-4 Phantom began in August of 1953. The McDonnell design team was headed by Herman Barkley...
Hi everybody,
During the 1987/1988 McDonnell-Douglas tried to make a deal with Airbus
to develope MD-330 airliner,which was based on a stretch MD-11 airframe
with Airbus A300 wing to compete Boeing-747,but the McDonnell later developed the design MD-12,anther series of little known airliner...
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According to Vaclav Němeček in his book “Civilní letadla 2” the drawing gives an impression of a DC-10 variant, but he didn’t mention a D-… number. Is anyone able to supplement the designation?
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DARPA Opts To End Boeing-Led X-50A Dragonfly UAV Effort
By Jefferson Morris/Aerospace Daily & Defense Report
09/11/2006 09:35:13 AM
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has opted to end the X-50A Dragonfly unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program, which was attempting to pioneer a...
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in this competition, the main contenders were:-
1-Boeing model -----?
2-Northamerican-Rockwell NR-349
3-Vought V-483.
4-lockheed CL- -----?
5-Grumman G-300.
6-General Dynamics model -----?
7-Fairchild-Hiller (Republic division) model ----?
8-McDonnell-Douglas F-15 model ----?
can anyone...
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Hi, it's my first day at the forum. So I want to ask for a very ordinary subject. Besides the later winner of the AWACS competition, the Boeing EC-137D (early_awacs_2.jpg shows an early configuration with radome mounted on the tip of the tail), there was another competitor, a DC-8 development...
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The original FS-X design seems to owe a lot to the Hornet 2000 proposal, doesn't it? Particularly that fourth image- aside from the wedge intakes and shorter nose, I might have thought that was the Hornet 2000 proposal......
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Back in the day when they were coming up with the configuration for the next generation Hornet which ultimately lead to the Super Hornet there was a study done which had several different basic configurations in mind. Some of these drawings made it into AvWeek. One of the designs had the...
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