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  1. Triton

    Project Habakkuk

    Project Habakkuk was a plan by the British in World War II to construct an aircraft carrier out of 280,000 blocks of pykrete (a mixture of wood pulp and ice), for use against German U-boats in the mid-Atlantic, which was out of range of land-based planes. This gigantic aircraft carrier, 2,000...
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    • allies anti-submarine warfare battle of the atlantic canada great britain naval aviation royal canadian navy royal navy united states world war ii
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    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
  2. hesham

    Canadair Designations

    Hi, the Canadair CL-45 was ASW helicopter project,CL-52 was Boeing B-47B and CL-61 snow mobile project, what were the Canadair CL-65 (old design) and CL-212 ?.
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    • canada canadian armed forces canadian army cold war post-cold war post-world war ii royal canadian air force royal canadian navy world war ii
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    • Forum: Designation Systems
  3. Apophenia

    Canadair CL-212 air-cushion vehicle

    The CL-212s were hovercraft not aircraft. Two were built. The clip below was taken from a Videotron page on Canadair special projects (alas, now 404): http://pages.videotron.com/frfauch/Canadair/Website/specprod.html [Dead link] Air Cushion Vehicles Between 1964 and 1967, the company...
  4. overscan (PaulMM)

    Spey A-4 Project

    Flying Review March 1966
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    • close air support cold war douglas aircraft company great britain ground attack late 1960s mcdonnell douglas naval aviation north atlantic treaty organisation rolls-royce royal canadian navy tactical reconnaissance united states
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  5. uk 75

    Canadian FFG 1960 design

    I am at it again. Looking through some old books I found an artist's impression of a 1960 Canadian design for a frigate carrying a Tartar system aft. It was described as a Tribal class frigate, so presumably was an early design for the Iroquois ships. It is a smart looking ship and very...
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    • cold war early 1960s guided missile frigate royal canadian navy tribal-class
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    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
  6. Skybolt

    Grumman project list

    Hoping to stir upr some discussions (and undigging of half-forgotten infos) I post the Grumman projects list found in the Francillon's book (Putnam-Naval Insitute) on Grumman Corporation. As it's very well explained in the opening remarks, it is complete till G-128 and after veeeeery sketchy (to...
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    • cold war department of transportation fleet air arm grumman interwar period jet age nasa naval aviation royal canadian navy royal navy space age space race united states united states air force united states army united states army air corps united states army air forces united states coast guard united states navy world war ii
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    • Forum: Designation Systems
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