strategic air command

Hi, has anyone this book ?,and does it contain a projects ...

A very good site,and my dear PaulMM spoke about it before, https://whatisnuclear.com/the-story-of-the-atomic-airplane.html https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/aircraft-nuclear-propulsion-program-manned-aircraft-progress-report-1956-1958-video.45325/

Convair: Engineering the Military and Civil Aviation Future

Was this a genuine design or just something the marketing department dreamt up? (It looks pretty outlandish to me) View: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/54514653236/in/album-72177720325013375

View: https://x.com/whatisnuclear/status/1886397754143867189 https://whatisnuclear.com/news/2025-02-03-declassified-nuclear-powered-aircraft-progress-update-manned-flight-film.html View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-8q8INxQEY This is an excellent video with lots of information on the...

View: https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1874984691633414466 View: https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1874990524895203505

Starting thread at the end... https://www.twz.com/air/final-kc-10-extender-tanker-sent-into-retirement

Greatly inspired by the "Longer B-58 Hustler service?" thread by @Rule of cool How could the B-47 have had a more impactful service life? Improved engines and aerodynamics? Exports to friendly nations? As a total What-if thought, I would consider a four-engine B-47 evolution as seen with...

I saw a B58 Hustler for the first time the other day, I was surprised by how small it was. I also finally understand what the combination fuel-weapon store is and does. Was the design too specific and limited to remain in service beyond 1969? Could it have carried SRAMs or other advanced...

from ARDC TR-59-64 Advanced Concepts Study, Final Report. from USAF FOIA reading room. (edit: PDF split & now attached) A JT11-7A powered Booster Airplane launches a rocket vehicle & satellite payload with two solid fuelled stages and a storable liquid propellant third and fourth stages...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1Kl6bQ8hxo&pp=ygUMbWVnYXByb2plY3Rz

San Diego Air and Space Museum archives on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=49487266%40N07&view_all=1&text=B-1+Lancer&sort=relevance

A rare video about the B-47 Stratojet and some programs surrounding it

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...

The US deployed Matador cruise missiles to Europe and then replaced them with Mace. With the arrival of Pershing 1 Mace was withdrawn. The West German Air Force received Matador but not Mace before getting Pershing. Was West Germany the only country offered these systems?

The A-12 and the later SR-71 used the NAS-14v2 astro-inertial navigation system (ANS) from the 1960s, which was particularly interesting in the pre-GPS times. The set apparently looked like this...

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...

View: https://youtu.be/kH_DfE88zQs https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2023-03-20/filming-armageddon-air-force-movies-depict-us-preparations

Does anyone know the final disposition of the Terex MX Transporter Emplacer (TE)? This vehicle was designed to support MX deployment in a system of multiple protective shelters linked by above ground roads, the so-called "Racetrack" proposal. In 1979, President Carter announced that 200 MX...

A little illustration I did depicting a Boeing Model 702 concept - this was a 1950s effort at defining an eventual B-52 replacement, with this iteration having four engines on pylons and a further quartet in nacelles built into the underside of the wing. Scott Lowther's "US Supersonic Bomber...