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2025年1月7日 · Aviation Book Reviews. Vought F7U-3 Cutlass Hardcover –2024, Crecy. Tommy H Thomason and Alfred C Casby. FIVE STARS. When this popped up on a Facebook page (I think it was The Aviation Enthusiast Book Club), the aviation writer Bill Sweetman wryly replied that 384 pages devoted to the Cutlass were rather too generous a treatment and compared it to a boxset of the music of Yoko Ono.
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Aviation Book Reviews. Vought F7U-3 Cutlass Hardcover –2024, Crecy. Tommy H Thomason and Alfred C Casby. FIVE STARS. When this popped up on a Facebook page (I think it was The Aviation Enthusiast Book Club), the aviation writer Bill Sweetman wryly replied that 384 pages devoted to the Cutlass were rather too generous a treatment and compared it to a boxset of the music of Yoko Ono.
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Why the cancellation of the TSR-2 may have been a good thing
2019年7月6日 · For many in Britain, a nation saved by air power in World War II, military aircraft are colossally symbolic. The wartime Spitfire and Lancaster were figureheads for British pride, and throughout the 1950s, the nation's futuristic jets were much trumpeted. Here, in thundering rivetted aluminium, was a tangible reminder that this was a technologically advanced superpower.
Top 8 Mach 3 fighters - Hush-Kit
2017年2月23日 · As well as being a razor, mach 3 is a speed. It's very fast. Flying at mach 3 produces oven-like skin temperatures and requires aircraft with exotic propulsion systems, and structures wrought from unusual metals that refuse to behave as well as aluminium. Despite these seemingly insurmountable challenges, several mach 3 fighters have been considered.…
The Mikoyan MiG-37: A brief history of Russian stealth (in fact and ...
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The 11 Tiniest Jet Fighters - Hush-Kit
2020年12月27日 · Wingspan roughly equal to the length of a Panzer VI. 5. Early Yakovlev jets (Yak-15, Yak-17, Yak-23) L: 8.7m, W: 9.2m (Yak-15) First flown less than a year after VE Day, the Yak-15 came into being by shoving a reverse-engineered Junkers Jumo 004 turbojet into the front end of a Yak-3 piston fighter.
The unloved giant: The Douglas XB-19 ‘Flying Behemoth’
2018年2月2日 · Nicknamed the 'Douglas Flying Behemoth', the little-known XB-19 was an experimental wartime bomber with a wingspan equal to that of a Boeing 747! Unloved and unlucky, it performed vital work that directly contributed to the exceptional B-29 Superfortress. From 1941, until the B-36 Peacemaker took its first flight in 1946, the largest American aircraft was the Douglas…
Top 10 Cancelled British Fighters - Hush-Kit
2019年12月31日 · From the dawn of the aeroplane until the 1960s, Britain produced world-class fighter aircraft. As well as the designs that actually felt the air beneath their wings, there is a tantalising treasury of designs that never made it. Here are ten of them. 10. British Aerospace P.125 'Have Not Glass' (1985) The long history of…