trainers

While talking about some current advanced pilot training trends on other threads, I've figured out that there was no dedicated thread for ETS and LVC solutions which are very interesting piece of tech with very important implications, especially as we move into the era of very expensive 5th gen...

Hello everybody, In the 1960s, the RAF was looking for a replacement for its Folland Gnats and Hawker Hunter trainers. It specified that the aircraft had to be supersonic and had to have a strike capability. The projects that I know of, taken from "British Secret Projects 2: Jet Bombers since...

A British start-up company, Aeralis, is trying to secure £1 mil via crowdfunding to design a concept fuselage demonstrator for a “modular” family of military jet trainers in time for September’s DSEI defence show. They are billing this as the first all-British military aircraft since the Hawk...

Georges Sablier (and Aviación Vizcaína SA) Type Designations Designation Style: some current sources display Sablier designations as S-xx. Contemporary documents, including Sablier plan pamphlets always display designations as Sablier type xx. At some point in the mid-1930s, Georges Sablier...

Hi all, I search for drawings and technical data for the swiss Pilatus projects P.1 training 1940 / P.5 utility 19?? / P.C.9 transport (not the trainer) 195? and the P.C.10 Twin Porter 19??. I know there was an article in FliegerRevue Extra No.1, but I have´nt this magacine. Thanks for your...

1964, BA P.45 project. Supersonic Trainer, Strike and Fighter variants were contemplated, and with either 2 x RB.172 (early "Adour") engines or 1x RB.168 Spey already in production, plus various ex-TSR.2 avionic items, it was overall quite possible. With hindsight, however, ex BAe Warton...