Would the Airwolf helicopter have worked in real life? We got …
Aug 23, 2024 · The Fantastic Airwolf For many children of the 1980s, the Airwolf theme song alone was enough to trigger a massive surge of adrenaline. Knight Rider was just a car, Airwolf was a freaking helicopter. Airwolf had everything a Cold War action show should have: Stolen high-tech weapons, Colonel Gaddaffi, canyons, explosions, sexy pilots, sinister CIA…
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Dec 8, 2024 · Tell me something I don’t know about F-16s? Well, a little nugget I like to share is that something like 70% of the F-16 components are reversible, meaning landing gear and flight surfaces can work on both sides with minor changes.
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5 days ago · 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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Dec 1, 2024 · Recent Posts. Book reviews: Vought F7U-3 Cutlass & Kawanishi H6K ‘Mavis’ and H8K ‘Emily’ Units; Analysis of China’s new double-delta stealth warplane
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5 days ago · 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.
How good is China’s J-10C fighter? We ask Justin Bronk ... - Hush-Kit
Feb 26, 2019 · The Chinese J-10 is in service in large, and growing, numbers. The latest version, the J-10C, is a formidable machine. We spoke to Justin Bronk, Research Fellow for Airpower and Technology at the RUSI think-tank to find out more. No nation has more new aircraft programmes than China, and the progress it has made in the twenty years has been spectacular.
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Dec 26, 2024 · Video of a new Chinese aircraft of novel configuration has caused a stir. We ask Jim Smith, former British aircraft technical liaison to Washington, his thoughts. The size is consistent with a multi-role aircraft with potential for strategic air defence and strike roles. The configuration is clearly ...
Is one or two engines better in a fighter? - Hush-Kit
Sep 3, 2024 · The debate on single versus twin engines for fighter aircraft continues. Paul Stoddart* follows Gen Chuck Horner and David Baker, PhD into the ring. The choice of engine is a fundamental design driver for any aircraft – both the type and the number. One or two engines and one or two seats are fundamental choices…
Mirage F1: The Tomcat killer - Hush-Kit
Nov 24, 2020 · An Iraqi F1 in service with IQAF in the 1980s. The superb French Dassault Mirage F1 was one of the most prolific killers of teen series fighters in the skies of the Middle East. The often over-looked French jet even racked up kills against the best-armed fighter in the world, the seemingly invincible F-14 Tomcat.…
The 11 Tiniest Jet Fighters - Hush-Kit
Dec 27, 2020 · 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.