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  1. blackkite

    The Hawker P.1062, P.1068 and P.1067.

    Hi! https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://alternathistory.com/raboty-po-sovershenstvovaniyu-istrebitelej-nazemnogo-bazirovaniya-v-period-s-1946-po-seredinu-1950-h-godov-chast-1-dnevnye-istrebiteli-dlya-korolevskih-vvs-chast-9/&sandbox=1 source: Anthony Leonard Butller...
  2. blackkite

    The Hawker P.1052, P.1072 and P.1081.

    Hi! The Hawker P.1052 swept-wing version of the Sea Hawk for high speed research. https://www.baesystems.com/en/heritage/hawker-p1052 "The Hawker P.1052 was an experimental aircraft produced by Haker Siddeley for research and development of swept back wing designs. As preparations were being...
  3. M

    Does anyone have a copy of "Wireless for the Warrior" by Meulstee?

    I'm putting together an article on the Wireless Set No. 10, which deserves to be MUCH better known - it was the first TDM and PCM comms system in the world. Sadly there is very little info on it, but I know that "Wireless for the Warrior" had a relatively detailed description including post-war...
  4. Foo Fighter

    TSR2 SLEP

    G'day folks, consider this. The TSR2 goes into service and later requires a SLEP, what engines are avaulable and could a big wing be fitted/would it be an improvement?
  5. Grey Havoc

    Pulau Ubin Anti-Motor Torpedo Boat Battery

    https://www.iias.asia/the-newsletter/article/pulau-ubin-anti-motor-torpedo-boat-battery-gun-never-was
  6. blackkite

    BAe Warton P.109 supersonic fighter

    Hi! BAe Warton P.109 supersonic STOVL combat aircraft. Three side view drawing source : Twitter According to “BRITISH SECRET PROJECT Jet Fighters since 1950, Tony Buttler”, The engine fan and core flows (Without PCB) through two rotating nozzles integrated with the wing root trailing edge...
  7. Grey Havoc

    Russia fires warning shots at British destroyer in the Black Sea

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57583363 Article update:
  8. A Tentative Fleet Plan

    Construction of the Dounreay Fast Reactor

    View: https://youtu.be/JIkYOFxcqRg
  9. A Tentative Fleet Plan

    Vickers Interwar Super-Long-Range Artillery

    Found these images buried in my folders along with a screenshot of the (limited) information on these artillery pieces. It took me a while to track down which forum post I got them from (link and just in case, archived). Quoted from the thread in question:
  10. Grey Havoc

    Dasani Water marketing disaster (UK, 2004)

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD79NZroV88
  11. P

    British and French Intervention in German Invasion of Poland

    I am looking for some "professional" advice on an alternate history scenario that has been running around my mind for years: Given the political will to do something immediately about Hitler's 1 Sept 1939 invasion of Poland, did the British and French military have the resources and the assets...
  12. T

    Impregnated plywood

    Anyone know any sources discussing "shpon" the Soviet impregnated plywood and American Duraloid and Duramold?
  13. blackkite

    Hunting H.126

    Hi! Hunting H.126 https://aviationsmilitaires.net/v3/kb/picture/3121/hunting-h126 https://www.pilootenvliegtuig.nl/2019-pv04-p49-hunting-h126/ https://piflightteoriasdevoo2.blogspot.com/2019/04/hunting-h126-e-seu-sistema-jet-flap.html
  14. blackkite

    Handley Page HP88

    Hi! Handley Page HP88. http://richard.ferriere.free.fr/3vues/handley-page_hp88_3v.jpg https://alchetron.com/Handley-Page-HP.88 "The single HP.88 aircraft was designed to Air Ministry Specification E.6/48 as an aerodynamic testbed for the proposed Handley Page Victor V-bomber."
  15. blackkite

    Bristol F18/37 fighter project

    Hi! Bristol F18/37 fighter with 'Centaurus’ engine.(Except the last drawing) http://alternathistory.com/nerealizovannye-odnomotornye-istrebiteli-spetsifikatsii-f-18-37-velikobritaniya/ (Original source : TONY BUTTLER BRITISH SECRET PROJECTS FIGHTERS & BOMBERS 1935-1950)
  16. blackkite

    Avro type 732

    Avro Type 732 https://www.key.aero/article/paving-way "There were many proposed developments of the Victor and Vulcan, including two supersonic derivatives, but neither came close to being built. The Avro 732 of 1956 was to have been powered by eight de Havilland Gyron Juniors, four in pairs...
  17. uk 75

    Tartar/Standard: The RN's missed opportunity

    As the Tartar-derived Standard family continues to thrive https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/standard-missile-projects.7671/unread I am going to re-visit another Hobbyhorse of mine. The Dutch took close look at CF299/Seadart and dropped it in favour of Tartar/Standard for its two Tromp...
  18. uk 75

    Getting a British Phantom

    The subject which perhaps has been kicked around on this website more than any other is whether the UK could have designed and built a two seater fighter-bomber in the 1960s to replace RAF Lightnings and RN Sea Vixens and replace RAF Hunters (The RN already had Buccaneer). The Hawker P1154 was...
  19. Flyaway

    Daedalus Flight Pack

    The Royal Marines appear to have become early adopters of the Daedalus flight pack. View: https://mobile.twitter.com/AdmTonyRadakin/status/1388551547076894723
  20. blackkite

    Blackburn B-54

    Hi Blackburn B-54 and B-88 shipborne, anti-submarine aircraft, Fairey Gannet competitor. https://www.baesystems.com/en/heritage/blackburn-b-54-and-b-88 "The first design in this series was the Blackburn B54 or YA5. This type was designed around the proposed Napier Double-Naiad turbo-prop...
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