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The Development of the X-15 at NACA Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, 1952-1958 http://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/historic/X-15

Has any-one pictures or drawings of the proposed GAU-7 caseless ammo gun for the F-15? I can't find any :'(

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2011/09/photos-fighter-bomber-trainer.html http://defensetech.org/2011/09/19/dont-hold-your-breath-for-t-x/

Why USAF not consider to use Apollo hardware for MOL? The military-spy station could be launched by Saturn IB ,or more large, by Saturn V. A MOL-Skylab type of station would be the advantage to be reusable for more that one mission. Instead of Gemini-B,the crew could be on Apollo capsule (with...

North American YAT-28E model manufactured by Topping found on eBay. URL: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Topping-North-American-YAT-28E-Desk-Model-/200623021654?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2eb6105e56

From the June 1959 edition of Popular Science, an article on the Martin Company's USAF Lunar Simulator project, basically intended to simulate conditions inside a long-term manned installation on the Moon. Among it's interesting features was the plan to eventually have it house it's own...

Whilst looking for information on studies for 156" solid rockets applied to ICBMs, I came across this presentation on ATK's large motors. Buried in there is the notion of an ICBM using a 260" solid rocket motor for the first stage of an ICBM - no mention of what the second stage is, other than...

Testers Find Limitations For Global Hawk Jun 6, 2011 By Amy Butler U.S. Air Force testers say the Global Hawk Block 20/30 unmanned aerial system (UAS) is unable to completely and reliably perform the high-altitude imagery and signals intelligence collection missions for which it is...

Weapons Systems 118P called for high altitude reconnaissance aircraft proposals and was the forerunner of aircraft such as the B-70 Valkyrie and SR-71 Blackbird. Scott Lowther, a.k.a. Orionblamblam, had done a great deal of work to make the WS-118P proposals available on his blog and in his...

AQUILINE was a CIA project to develop a low-flying surveillance RPV in the late 60s/early 70s. From "Air Force UAVs The Secret History": "The CIA developed a few UAVs through the Directorate of Science and Technology’s Office of Development and Engineering rather than through the NRO. The...

Just put up a new article at RetroMechanix.com on these bizarre Douglas nuclear-powered transport studies which appear to use components of the C-133 Cargomaster: Features two hi res blueprints and 3 configurations; check it out! Details on them are limited, so if you have additional...

Known at various times as: Model 100 Sneaky Pete Cold Pigeon HAVE KEY (Under USAF Aeronautical Systems Division ownership) Approximately 1976-1984, evolved into the ATA/A-12. Sneaky Pete has been mentioned often in other threads, but has no thread of its own. I've recently run across an image...

yes the DoD used Shuttle for several Mission like: (STS-4, STS-51-C, STS-51-J, STS-27, STS-28, STS-33, STS-36, STS-38, STS-39) but there was more at Vandenberg Air Force Base, they build a Shuttle launch pad on Space Launch Complex 6 and the north runway and overruns were lengthened for...

In the late 1980s, the USAF reassessed its training missions. The aging T-37s and T-38s could not be refurbished and uphauled indefinitely, and so new specifications were to be drafted. JPATS would provide a primary trainer for future pilots; and TTTS would provide a platform for future tanker...

From what appears to be a book abstract by Maurice F. Crommie. His website has this in his resume Dec 1962 - Sept 1971 Consulting Engineer, Senior Scientist and Project Leader in strategic nuclear weapon design at General Electric, McDonald Douglas, Stanford Research Institute, Conductron...

I couldn't find anything already posted about this, but there's an auction on eBay for a pic of this 4 seater buckeye prototype. Can't really tell much, but see for yourselves...

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...

...Dear God/Yahweh/Roddenberry, the Air Farce really *did* test cats in zero-g :o :o :o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9XtK6R1QAk&feature=relmfu

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...

Lockheed Martin and Skunk Works unveiled a concept of medium-altitude /long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) called "Multi purpose long endurance" (MPLE) at the AUVSI yesterday. Links: http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2010/08/auvsi-skunk-works-unveils-medi.html...