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…
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Dec 26, 2024 · Posts about usa written by Hush Kit. Video of a new Chinese aircraft of novel configuration has caused a stir.
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.
Flying & fighting in the Lockheed EP-3E Aries II: Interview with …
May 18, 2020 · For over fifty years the EP-3 has been sticking its beak in were it is not wanted, gathering signals intelligence for the US Navy. Hoovering up the signals, active sensor transmissions and communications of non-consenting parties is the stock-in-trade of the Navy's oldest flying spy, the Lockheed EP-3. We spoke to Captain ‘Dirty Duck’ Niemyer to…
Flak: myth versus reality with Donald Nijboer - Hush-Kit
Mar 25, 2021 · Much feared by military aircrew, flak blew thousands of aeroplanes from the sky across the 20th century. We grilled Donald Nijboer author of Flak in World War II, about the dreaded flak. What is Flak? "Flak is an acronym/initialism for the German word, Flugabwehrkanone, meaning aircraft-defence cannon. When the Allies began to use the term is…
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 ...
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 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.
Top Ten Twin-Engine Fighters of World War II - Hush-Kit
Oct 15, 2021 · The de Havilland Mosquito perhaps epitomises the outcome that mid-Thirties aircraft designers were reaching for in scheming out their ‘strategic fighter’ designs in France, Germany, Japan, Poland, the Netherlands, and doubtless elsewhere. The golden objective was to come up with a fast, heavily armed twin-engine aircraft that had the range to act as a bomber escort, and the speed ...
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…