nuclear powered aircraft

While searching the NTRS for information on subsonic airliner designs, I found what seems to be the last nuclear powered aircraft proposal. It was a hybrid aircraft using conventional fuel for take off and then transitioning to nuclear power at cruising speed/altitude See: 1. Preliminary...

Hello. I hope everyone is well. I'm on the ear-'ole for some info about the above. Nothing appears when I search online (I am aware there may not be a great deal of info existing so my hopes were far from high) all I have to go on is what is on PP 87-88 of Tony Buttlers latest American Secret...

ASPEN BACKGROUND In the 1950s and 1960s, many potential uses of nuclear power were explored, such as NTRs. An NTR uses a nuclear reactor to heat a working fluid, such as hydrogen, and exhaust this fluid in a nozzle for thrust. Many studies of this technology were conducted, and prototypes were...

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i found this on German Wikipedia An-22PLO in October 1965 experiments start for a nuclear power An-22 Build aircraft 01-06 was used for radiation shield test Build aircraft 01-07 had the Reactor on board in September 1972 01-07 began 23 test flights near Semipalatinsk under codename "Stork"...

Hi, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/Nuclear_Bomber1.JPG

Today I had a look into "Luftshiffe die nie gebaut wurden" (Airships, which were never built), published by the Zeppelinmuseum, Friedrichshafen. Most spectacular are the two designs from Frank Tinsley, based on work done by Goodyear. A flying aircraft carrier from 1951 and the better known...

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Hi, the Bell Helicoptere Corporation designed a new concept for atomic-powered VTOL transport helicopter,it had 300 ft length,500,000 1b weight and estimated speed of 200 mph, it was look like to me as flying ship. http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1960/1960%20-%200793.html

The world's largest land plane, the XC-99, made its first flight in San Diego on 23 November 1947. The XC-99, serial 43-52436, is a double deck transport variant of the B-36. It has a considerably larger fuselage, but was never fitted with jet pods. The wingspan is the same 230 feet, but the...

When was the technology available for the introduction of SkyCats should a demand for their capability arise earlier?

I asked on the warships1 board whether the USAF had looked at a tanker version of the DC-8 in case there were problems with the KC135 and got a reply back saying that Lockheed had proposed a jet tanker that was apparently the favourite at one time. The USAF bought the KC-135 purely as a...

I found two Lockheed projects to start the topic Source: Avion (magazine) January 1959 No more information given ???

A lot must be researchied on the post-Seamaster hostory of US Navy seaplane projects. We are told that the Navy interest vanished in front of the "victory of the carrier" (the SLBMs came later). But... there was at least a couple of competions (and specifications) before eveithing ended (?)...

Lockheed 1979 NuCMCA (Nuclear-powered Cruise Missile Carrier Aircraft)

Lockheed 1982 Logistic Support Aircraft

In 1952 the US Navy put out a Request for Proposal to the US Aircraft industry asking for an advanced jet-powered 'Fast Mine-Laying Maritime Patrol Flying Boat' The winner of this RfP was Martin with their P6M-1/2 SeaMaster design. Unfortunatly this design did not go into full production, and...

Here is the accompanying paper: https://web.archive.org/web/20210423014020/http://www.islandone.org/Propulsion/AtomPlane.html