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Thirty-plus years in the making, this is a must-have for anyone researching postwar British aircraft. It's from Air-Britain, so you know it will be good. Pricey, even for members, but this time next year you'll wish you'd bagged one...

Hi! https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://alternathistory.com/raboty-po-sovershenstvovaniyu-istrebitelej-nazemnogo-bazirovaniya-v-period-s-1946-po-seredinu-1950-h-godov-chast-1-dnevnye-istrebiteli-dlya-korolevskih-vvs-chast-9/&sandbox=1 source: Anthony Leonard Butller...

View: https://youtu.be/tkkFm4b3yOI https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/tog-amphibian/ (Note: the D.N.L.E. should not be confused with the Admiralty's Department of the Director of Naval Equipment, also known as the Directorate of Naval Equipment.)...

Hi, I searched the entire forum, but I did not find a thread about the Cultivator Number 6, a projected trenching machine; maybe it is well known to some of the readers, but I think it need a thread due to its particularity. Here the Cultivator as described by Winston Churchill in his book...

We have covered individual projects and the infamous Sandys 1957 White Paper in some depth but I wanted to draw together what we have learnt with some open questions: Which missile projects across the board: Malkara to Blue Streak would you bin or save? Which Foreign systems would you have...

Brochure, thanks of "bertielissie" on AMI:

I still have to finish my detailed Cierva list, but here is a rough version: SPAIN BCD-1* 'El Cangrejo' two-seat biplane (* Barcala, Cierva & Diaz) BCD-2* small racing tractor monoplane (* Barcala, Cierva & Diaz) C-3 (large biplane) BRITAIN C.1 Autogiro N°1 C.2 Autogiro N°2 C.3 Autogiro N°3...

Hawker P.1035 Hawk with F.2/43 Fury undercarriage. Source grade 1. While searching for P.1035 images I came across the beginnings of a model by Paul Bradley (attached). Until seeing it, I hadn't considered the possibility that the P.1035 retained the tail-wheel undercarriage (a la Attacker)...

My dear Jemiba, the Cierva W-11T was enlarge version of W-11 with two 1620 hp Rolls-Royce Merlin 502 engines,and W-12 project was to be fitted with Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops .

Hi Everyone! Presented here is a three-view line drawing (I have little else information) on the Hawker P.1108, one of the aircraft that competed with the ultimate winner of the contract, Blackburn. The only information given besides the three-view, is the following: "Two-seat Naval Strike...

I found out some information about Britain's embroynic ABM system designed in the 1950s. The Ministry of Supply in 1954 placed study contracts with English Electric and Marconi to develop a ballistic missile defence. In February 1955 this led to Air Staff Target AST 1135. The entire programme...