TB-1 and P-6 - the firstborn of the Soviet Long-Range Aviation
At the beginning of the 1920s, a discussion broke out among the aircraft designers of the young Soviet Republic, from which it was necessary to build airplanes. The abundance of forests in the USSR, it seemed, was to incline to the fact that ...
WD50D Weather Scout
In aviation, a lot depends on the weather. Weather intelligence is divided into ground and air. For conducting aerial reconnaissance special aircraft are used. For example, in the USSR one of these ...
French aviation elegance. Part 3
After the end of World War II, the French had to restore the fleet and naval aviation from scratch. France has leased four aircraft carriers from the USA and Great Britain ...
French aviation elegance. Part 2
Despite attempts to simplify and reduce the cost of the XIUMX Mirazh, it remained too expensive, difficult and vulnerable to be used as a mass low-altitude strike aircraft ...
Vladimir Putin discussed the development prospects of the Russian Air Force
28 November The 2013 of the year in Sochi, the next meeting, which was devoted to the development of the Russian Air Force, was held by Vladimir Putin personally. Recently, the Russian president spent a whole series ...
French aviation elegance. Part 1
The French aviation industry was formed at the beginning of the 20 of the 20th century on the basis of a large number of semi-handicraft enterprises. At 1914 in France, which became the world aviation leader, was 20 ...
Construction of Il-76MD-90 production aircraft is gaining momentum
On November 21, the Start newspaper, the factory publication of the Aviastar-SP aircraft manufacturing enterprise (Ulyanovsk), published new information on the progress of the IL-76MD-90А project. So, now ...
Development of the PAK FA program
The last months have been marked by significant progress in the promotion of the program of the fifth-generation Russian fighter PAK FA (Advanced Aviation Complex of Frontal Aviation). 27 October 2013 ...
Swedish experimental aircraft SAAB-210 Draken
In Sweden, 60 years ago, as part of the creation of the J-35 Draken fighter, an unusual experimental aircraft was developed and built, designated SAAB 210 Lill-Draken. SAAB-210 Draken represented ...
American experienced fighter Lockheed XF-90
The Lockheed XF-90 is a multipurpose fighter developed by the American company Lockheed. Like the North American YF-93A and McDonnell XF-88 airplanes, it was designed according to American specifications ...
Rotational engine. Dirty warrior ...
Today we will talk about the engine, the heyday of which occurred at that time when aircraft had not yet emerged from the state of "flying shelves", but when these same shelves already felt themselves in ...
Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star - the first American serial jet fighter
Similarly to the Soviet MiG-9 jet fighter, the American Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star (in translation from English “shooting star” or “meteor”) became the first truly combat-capable ...
Good old MiGs will never die
After decades of war, only two countries in the western part of the former Yugoslavia fly modern jet aircraft: Serbia and Croatia. Both countries have announced plans to operate at least one ...
Winged metal
The picture shows the world's first all-metal aircraft, designed and built in 1909 by an American of French origin, John Moisin. He was a half-plan with ...
Experienced attack aircraft IL-20
The experience of the Great Patriotic War showed that all attack aircraft without exception had one significant drawback, which consisted in a limited view of the front lower hemisphere. It...
BV-222A Wiking Far Marine Scout
The BV 222 Wiking is a flying boat equipped with characteristic underwing floats retractable in flight. The development of the Wiking aircraft began in the 1937 year. Originally this aircraft ...
Pentagon contract bout
The weekly "MIC" has already addressed this topic in a brief news report "Boeing" and "Lockheed are uniting efforts", and now it offers to consider the situation in more detail. The US Air Force is opening ...
Ruined modernization of the MiG-23
The global aviation industry provides for a program to modernize older aircraft in order to extend their service lives and save budget funds. As a result, the upgraded aircraft in ...
Su-6 attack aircraft
In 1940, the Su-2 bomber (BB-1), designed by Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi, was launched into production. This aircraft was created under the program "Ivanov", which meant the creation ...
Su-37: a ruined project
At the end of the 1990s, Russian fighter aircraft were awaiting the adoption of a new super-fighter, which would have no equal in the world. Brand - Su-37. Further modernization of the wings of NATO ...
Bell Fighter Heavy YFM-1 Airacuda (USA)
In the mid-thirties of the last century, the American aircraft manufacturer Consolidated Aircraft moved from the city of Buffalo (New York) to San Diego (California). A group of employees remained ...
UH-60 Black Hawk (Black Hawk)
The UH-60 Black Hawk (Black Hawk) is a multipurpose helicopter created by the American company Sikorsky. The helicopter is in service with the American army, where he replaced the famous Bell ...
"DUCK POKINSKI" is ready to eat
The Peking Duck published by 31.10.12 on Aviation Explorer is not a reason to close its own kitchen. To confirm the information on the assembly of the Ka-32 helicopters in China ...
Such a small "Superjet"
When passengers first see the novelty of the domestic aviation industry - "Superjet", they often have a surprise. Why does a plane with a big name look so small? In the same "Sheremetyevo", ...