Analysis of China’s new double-delta stealth warplane
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 aimed at low signature, particularly the absence of…
usa – Hush-Kit
Dec 26, 2024 · Posts about usa written by Hush Kit. Video of a new Chinese aircraft of novel configuration has caused a stir.
cold-war – Hush-Kit
4 days ago · Operation Friston was the UK response when Soviet ships passed through waters near the UK. It was regularly activated as Northern Fleet Soviet warships often transited the Iceland – Faroes gap en route to the Atlantic. The Operation Order, which we were regularly required to read and sign for ...
Book Reviews – Hush-Kit
Jan 7, 2025 · 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.
The story of the F-20 Tigershark (including pilot interview)
Oct 3, 2023 · The F-20 was the ultimate US F-5 derivative. However unlike the twin-engined Tiger II and Freedom Fighter, the F-20 was powered by a single engine. It was intended to serve the needs of US client nations not cleared for fighters as advanced as the F-16. The F-20 had similar performance to the F-16 but would…
Almost the greatest fighter of World War II: The Martin-Baker MB5
Jan 2, 2019 · Imagine a world without Danny DeVito, Roger Daltrey and George Lucas. There’s a parallel universe where Rick Moranis played Schwarzenegger’s brother in Twins, where The Who never happened and where Star Wars was a military project to make Reagan hard and the Soviet Union broke. This speculative universe is one in which famous figures born in …
Why the cancellation of the TSR-2 may have been a good thing
Jul 6, 2019 · 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 10 Japanese Aircraft Of World War II - Hush-Kit
May 21, 2023 · Vol 2 can be pre-ordered here.. The Hush-Kit Book of Warplanes Vol 1 here and Vol 2 here. 6. Kawasaki Ki-100. 五式戦闘機, Go-shiki sentouki (Type 5 Fighter) Few fighter aircraft in history have made a successful switch from an inline powerplant to a radial (or vice versa) but one of the finest examples of this rare breed was the Ki-100 and its existence was very much a case of force ...
10 Reasons the Bristol Beaufighter was the hardest bastard
Jun 6, 2023 · Vol 2 can be pre-ordered here.. 4. Off to sunnier climes. Naturally as age and gradual obsolescence manifest itself on the home front, hastened with the arrival of the Mosquito, the Beaufighter found itself heading off for a place in the sunshine from 1942, but happily it would find plenty to keep it occupied in both the Mediterranean and in South-East Asia.
10 Most Important RAF aircraft of the Cold War - Hush-Kit
Sep 30, 2021 · At the start of the Cold War, in 1947, the British Empire was disintegrating and much of its cities were in ruins. On January 8, the High Explosive Research project was approved, to develop an atomic bomb. Though battered and exhausted from World War II, the nation still had a huge extremely powerful military. The Royal Air…