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Hey folks, check out this interesting YouTube lecture on the aviation history of El Segundo, California, presented by the well-known aerospace historian Tony Chong. :cool: Video: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PRKhUm9qEI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PRKhUm9qEI

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Hello, , I have an old 80 gal fuel tank from North American Aviation Inc. It is from the Engeneering and Experimental Division. Its about 4 ft long X 2 ft tall. X 1 ft wide. It says Model SOC-1, or I. Part number 17-48002. Contract No. 41257. Material SS AL.ALLOY. marked with a NA 6 in a...

VINTAGE FACTORY NORTH AMERICAN NASA X-15 X-15A-3 DESK MODEL PROTOTYPE DELTA WING Item description from the seller: This vintage factory desk model of the North American Aviation X-15A-3 Delta wing prototype. This was a proposal to achieve Mach 8, the project was cancelled in 1962. Fairly large...

The X-Planes Series. documentary (Part 3)

https://daviddoylebooks.com/aircraft-usn-usmc-jet-aircraft/aj-savage-9kbz5

Stretching what-if but given the long life of the B52 I have been imagining what might have happened if a small number of B70A Valkyries had been delivered to SAC in the early 60s forming a specialised high level penetrator wing able to deliver heavy nuclear freefall bombs. No other aircraft was...

I used to nurse the fond belief that only the B52G and H versions carried Hound Dog missiles and that they were only loaded in the "silver era". Thanks to the Internet it turned out that the Dog served well into the 70s and so was carried by SIOP scheme B52s. An example is shown here...

I haven't made a post on here in ages but today I stumbled upon something very strange and interesting only the people here might know of to find. I was going on a romp around Japan in Google Maps looking at aviation museums and such and I came across a museum near Nagoya Airport owned by...

From DTIC report AD0333266 Environmental Control Systems Selection for Manned Space Vehicles USAF 1962.

https://media.defense.gov/2020/Nov/23/2002540204/-1/-1/1/B-70%20VARIANTS.PDF This is nice :)

I need help I have been unable to find any pictures of the rear view of the X-15 ejection seat cane anyone help with this? thanks

I was wondering how much these two pieces of electronic equipment contributed to the growth in weight of the F-86D/K over the F-86. Does anybody has some data? Also, I understand the MG-4 fire control system what somewhat less advanced than the Huges E-4 that was exclusive to the US F-86D. What...

Last few days I've been tearing my hair out looking for a collection of images I *know* I saw some time ago: art and diagrams depicting various aircraft including the B-52 carrying the Navaho missile. If this sounds at all familiar to anyone, please let me know. Here's an image from another...

This one is not really feasible but it does produce some interesting models or artwork. The USAF had its Hound Dogs in service from the Cuban Missile Crisis well into the 70s. If politics and other considerations had not got in the way, permutations of NATO Hound might have served on the...

Hi, https://www.amazon.com/Manned-Missile-Story-B-70/dp/B0007E0YDW

What's everyone's recommendations for the best book on this American Cold War bomber?

I found this quote in another topic: "What about the disgraceful O-47? The inelegant Sabreliner?" Perhaps as a answer to the second part of that question I will present the following image and also ask if this is the NA-465, "Sabreliner 65", that hesham mentioned more than seven years ago...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-64_Hornet