naval aviation

Hello, Described in both Naval Fighters #75: Grumman F7F Tigercat and F7F Tigercat in Action is a zero-length launch rack for launching the 11.75" Tiny Tim rocket without need for a drop beforehand, developed at NOTS China Lake and intended for the F7F. Evidently it seems it's only for the...

Late 80s (88-90) US Navy Program to replace the E-3C, S-3B and EA-6B carrier-based AEW, ASW and EW aircraft. I believe it evolved into the E-X program to replace the E-2, this is why i’m attaching the image of the Boeing E-X proposal, which is seen here in ASW markings. (VS-24 scouts was an S-3...

There is a discussion on soviet carriers but it deals mostly with western reactions. I'm very interested in what possible Mach 2 carrier fighters the soviets would have built, the missing link between the MiG-19K Tigr planned for Pr. 85 carriers, and the MiG-23K and others such as Su-24K, T-10...

It is known that originally the 4th member of the Kitty Hawk class carriers the USS John F. Kennedy were to be nuclear powered variant of that class and would had been the 2nd nuclear carrier in the USN and in the world using a new Westinghouse A3W reactor design though there were plans to build...

This is the largest of three designs for a purpose built aircraft carrier US naval architects came up with after the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty. As with all early carrier designs there is a heavy surface armament, in this case the main battery is similar to that used on US heavy...

From French wiki What if the Rafale was codeveloped between both countries? The Hornet was a very nice aircraft but consolidating several different airframes into one was quite the effort and development was a tough process, it also took some years to really reach its full potential. Could a...

We discussed at nauseum alternatives to the F-8 Crusader from 1956, 1968, 1975. One we missed was this very one. I had forgotten one of the early N-156 was to be a naval fighter. The USN wanted it for the smallest carriers of WWII vintage that had not been downrated to secondary or tertiary...

To make a change from the usual what-ifs I wondered what the impact would be to the Royal Navy if the Far Eastern War had broken out as historically in December 1941, but there had been no European War? For this scenario you can assume whatever reason for Germany not going on the rampage in...

Aircraft Familiarization A3J Vigilante (1962) United States Navy training film shows operating procedures of the North American A3J Vigilante on ground and in flight. http://youtu.be/cwYdz-U75fk

General topic on VFA Requirement: VFA - V/STOL Fighters for Sea Control Ships (XFV-12 rivals) [link] Winning Design: Rockwell NR-356 / XFV-12A. [link] Other designs proposed for VFA: Convair (General Dynamics) Model 200. [link] Grumman G-607. [link] Vought (LTV) V-517 and V-520. [link]...

The Shenyang 601 Institute has been working for some years now on what might be a competition for Chengdu's J-20. Here's a handful of pics( sorry, can't remember the site, I think it was a Pakistani defence forum) of a model strongly resembling the blurred windtunnel model from Huitong's site...

Checking the information of the A-3 naval bomber I discover with the A-3 has the option of under wind station, some of the stations has used in the ERA-3B and the NRA-3B, but this stations was standard of the A-3 original bomber version of was added in a after version? What is the theoretical...

To reply no. 55 by Aerofranz, I misidentified the illustration's top sensor carrier as the Bell SeaPig. It's actually the SeaKat, still from Bell Aerospace. I apologize for the error. Attached are a couple views of a SeaKat factory model. I would be grateful for any info about this little-known...

Are there any land version of He-115 since I found land and sea version of He-119 to both

From -Air enthusiast Nº55 -Le Fanatique de l'Aviation -Airplane Five View Album B.C.F.Klein publications -Warplanes of the Second World War-Volume Four -Naval Fighters-Sixty.Five Post-1

Hello, I am looking for info on the San Diego Aircraft Engineering ( Sandaire ) "Stinger". This was the lightest V/STOL design that was proposed for the VFA for the Sea Control Ships in the early 1970's.

I just saw this and may be making a model (and adding CFTs) of it ...

About 1980, there was a considerable number of design studies into ships that combined the role of replenishment and helicopter carrier in different proportions to create a "cheap" carrier. The simplest variants had a box hanger forward and a big deck with three landing spots aft. This...

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/rgc/ASSRNEE-87.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/rgc/ASSRNEE-87.jpg To translate a comment from the original poster, ENRR, these drawings were "from the UK alternative to Argus." Indeed, they do seem to depict a ship based on a commercial Ro-Ro...

"Through-deck cruiser: the new capital ship", Michael A Cairl, US Naval Institute Proceedings, December 1978 Yet another late 1970's proposal to replace expensive US Navy supercarriers and their escorts with presumably cheaper ship types. This time it's a hybrid warship called a "through-deck...