v/stol

June 26 1972 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology is dedicated to ASD and its work.

Back in the late 1980s or early 1990s (my hard drive failed a couple of months ago and I haven't been able to reconstruct all of my records) I was working in the general area of AV-8B, and specifically its vulnerability to combat damage. The USMC came to us and asked what would be the smallest...

Taken from Structural Design Considerations for Cold Thrust Augmentation Fighter Concepts.

This idea came to me when I read the story of HTMS Chakri Naruebet. Since 2006, it has had no air group following the withdrawal of the Thai Navy's AV-8S Harriers and the failure to purchase AV-8B or Sea Harriers. Would it be possible to convert an S/VTOL aircraft carrier for STOBAR operations...

This is a rough TL sketch. POD is October 20, 1971. http://www.ffaa.net/projects/jaguar/jaguar_fr.htm That day, off Marseille, the Foch is flight testing Jaguar M05, that is: the navalized fifth prototype. As the aircraft is returned to the hangar for maintenance, one mechanic raise alarm...

The Harrier has become such a crucial part of the Royal Navy and Royal Navy history that I dont think we have yet risked a thread about a world in which it never entered service. Like all early VSTOL designs the P1127 was not easy to fly..It only existed at all because of US funding and...

We have a whole bunch of threads, alt-history or not. But no full blown TL so far. The POD: May 1972, common sense prevails: Convair Model 200 carries the day over Rockwell NAR-356. It becomes the XFV-12 interceptor for Zumwalt Sea Control Ship. Even after that one is canned, two prototypes are...

the Falklands war occurred in 82 Ark Royal (or another ship of the same class?) was decommissioned in 79 What if they had opted to delay the decommissioning by a few years but then the Falkland war occurred anyways Would the Ark Royal have been sent? would it have contributed differently than...

I need your Advice I working on Story were German history goes little different Here goes Aerospace industry in VTOL with Do-31 and EWR VJ 101 get into service. One of civilian application is a VTOL Business Jet I took the MBB HFB 320 Jet as template With Mass 9600 kg it need around...

https://media.defense.gov/2020/Nov/23/2002540204/-1/-1/1/B-70%20VARIANTS.PDF This is nice :)

In "Storia Militare" n. 196 (January 2010) Enrico Cernuschi described the unknown project of an early Italian helicopter/VTOL carrier of 60's. During 1965 the Italian Navy seriously considered the possibility to modify the proposed second "Vittorio Veneto" cruiser into a sort of small carrier...

Hi All - Mixed in with the Eaglet and Mini-Eaglet drawings was this single seat 4 fan design. Have no idea what this was meant for - nonetheless it is interesting! Enjoy the Day! Mark

From Ronnie Serrano on the "Project Terminated" page on Facebook: Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=876967599032670&set=gm.646696872124265&type=1&theater

Hi, here is some V/STOL and VATOL aircraft concepts, designed at the David W. Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center. NSRDC-79/O74 P PREDICTION OF DRAG COEFFICIENTS OF A SUPERSONIC V/STOL CONFIGURATION WITH VARIOUS STORE ARRANGEMENTS* Tsze C. Tai , Thomas H. Boyd , and Richard E...

Hi, I know we spoke about this aircraft before,but I get a new clearer PDF and I prefer to open a new topic for it,with a clearer artist drawing. http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,2140.msg110711.html#msg110711

Hello everybody! I always found the various proposals for the USN "Type" A V/STOL competition fascinating and the Boeing Model 1041-133 in particular. In my opinion the Model 1041-133 with its mechanical driven lift- and cruise fans and variable pitch control system was (and still is) the most...

Good Day All - In the Vought Archives I came across a folder with the title "V/STOL Fighter/Attack Concepts (FAVX)" with copies of overhead vuegraphs from a November 1975 presentation. The effort was a direct result of the U.S. Navy's effort in that time frame for a significant V/STOL...

52 United States Air Force C-5 Galaxy aircraft are being modernized by the Reliability Enhancement and Re-engining Program (RERP) into the Lockheed Martin C-5M Super Galaxy. This modernization program is expected to be completed in 2016 and will extend the service life of these 52 C-5 aircraft...

Think Defence have posted a couple of interesting articles lately, with great pictures, on the more unusual bases used for Harriers in the Falklands. http://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2012/04/the-atlantic-conveyor-falklands30/...

Hi, here is an ASW V/STOL seaplane project,from DTIC report,but I just ask if that aircraft related to General Dynamics or not,that is because this article in the report; 11. Dewey, D. B. Full-Scale Demonstration of the Vertical Float Sea-Stabilization Concept. San Diego, Oct 1963. 25 p...