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This YouTube video has some really good footage of Harriers, plus some other aircraft (Sea Vixens - yay!): View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjRdNwcWsZE I especially like the Sea Harrier in nuclear strike configuration (WE177 and tank) preparing to launch at 20:37 and the 'Captain...

Rockwell NA 430 VSTOL Multi Mission Aircraft Design definition study of NASA/Navy lift/cruise fan V/STOL aircraft. Volume 1: Summary report of Navy multimission aircraft Cavage, R. L. (Rockwell International) NASA-CR-137695 https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19760005982

Can someone shed some light on this C-5 Galaxy/NASA project? I was given this picture via email. Looks like STOL C-5? Blown flaps? Thank you in advance.

Displacing 13,200 tons, space for 16 aircraft. 15deg ski jump. For peacetime operations a helicopter operates from the rear deck, in wartime the rear deck would be built up with containers to lengthen the flight deck. Length 604 ft. Source: Flight International, 12 Jan 1980.

Fw 260 medium range and Fw 300 short range transports Source: Flying Review International Vol 18, Issue 11

Reading the chapter in TB's new American Secret Projects book on the contenders for the VSTOL USN fighter in the 70s I was fascinated by the lengthy narrative on the Fairchild Republic proposal. No pictures appear, but it seems to resmble a smaller updated version of the company's proposal for...

In Rebuilding the RN Brown notes 'In 1967 consideration was given to a stretched Type 82 to replace the Tiger class as helicopter ships' (DEFE 16/617 (PRO)) Were any drawings made?

Hi, The National Gas Turbine Establishment NGTE had designed two rigid-rotor aircraft designs,and the second was based on Bac One-Eleven. http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1967/1967%20-%200089.pdf

Hi, Does anyone know those VTO projects to Rolls Royce ?. Source,flightglobal.

Thread to discuss this family of lift engines, and aircrafts related. I've gathered some infos on the subject... Le Fana de l'aviation, october 1997. Article on the Mirage IIIV. "Circa 1967 RB-162 were to be replaced by RB-189, product of a join program between RR and Allison. Thrust was 2700...

The Soviets had a number of stilborn aircraft carrier projects from the 1930's all the way through to the 1990's. One of the most studied was Project-72 dating back to WW-II (1943) I think. Other projects include Project-69A, Project-85 and Project 1123 (Moskova concepts) before getting to the...

Ryan VTOL fighter project of the late 1950's. From Japanese Magazine "The Aviation Magazine" September 1958.

Over the years the STOVL ability of the Harrier has led to various proposals for ships for it to operate from. First was the VT Harrier Carrier concept of the mid-1970s. 8,000 tons, c. 400ft length at WL, 420 ft flight deck with ski-jump. Electric propulsion powered by 9x5000 hp gas turbine...

Following on from UK75's Post on a VTOL Lutwaffe 1975 i was wondering if anybody had the dimensions for the VJ-101 D ?. I can find stuff on-line for the B, C and E but not for the D >:(

A joint US-German VSTOL fighter project. Here we have a 3 view of an early configuration and an isometric cutaway of a later version with modified air intakes.

SCS SWATH design carrier (Slightly off topic but cool :)

Thanks to Evan, heres a nice PDF of a British Aerospace Harrier II Plus brochure showing it in RN colours.

Desktop models from rival McDonnell 260 Source: Aviation Magazine International. Nº753 May 1979

Lockheed VSTOL- unknown model

... several quite different from Grumman !