L-410 Turbolet will receive Russian "citizenship"
The Russian Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UGMK) decided to become the sole owner of the production of a small aircraft of local airlines (Let), Let L-410, also known as ...
Strike Raptor and Bombcat. Fire from heaven
“… The first combat group for the“ global patrol ”of fifty FB-22 will reach operational readiness for the 20 of the ninth year. "Strike Raptor" will allow us what we have always dreamed of ...
Hunting for big fish
The sunset on the Baltic coast is very beautiful, but in Donskoy, almost no one pays attention to the setting sun. Pilots and technicians of a separate shipborne anti-submarine helicopter squadron ...
Boeing CST-100 Manned Ship: Inside View
A high-precision model of a new transport spacecraft was demonstrated, which will be used to deliver cargo and crews to orbital stations ....
“Flying Fountain Pen” - X-3 “Stiletto”
Pilot Charles Eger 14 October 1947 of the year, seemingly impossible. On the XS-1, an experimental aircraft with a rocket engine, he developed the speed M = 1,06. It is from this historic flight ...
Eyskaya thread from Kiev will lead?
Last week, behind all the hype about various court decisions, news of the large-scale BBO exercises, events related to Edward Snowden, the information that ...
Helicopter attack and reconnaissance Comanche RAH-66
Comanche RAH-66 reconnaissance and attack helicopter was created by Boeing and Sikorsky for the American army. 4 January 1996 was made the first test flight of a helicopter. The program according to which was created ...
A-12 Avenger II - US Navy carrier attack aircraft
The program of creation of completely new models of carrier-based aircraft for the US Navy "Advanced Tactical Aviation" (ATA) began in 1983. According to this program, an average ...
Flying Cigar - B-51 bomber
In the first post-war decade, a large number of aircraft of the original design were developed. The XB-51 bomber can be easily attributed to the brightest aircraft of that time ...
"Bomber of the nineties" - T-60С
The T-60 theme dates back to 1981 as part of the B-90 Bomber of the Nineties program. The plane was designed to install two R-79 engines (18500 kgf), later - R-179-300 or ...
Deck fighter F-14 "Tomcat"
At the end of the 60 in the USA, the design of the long-range deck interceptor began to replace the F-4 "Phantom-2". In the finals of the competition were projects McDonnell Douglas and Grumman. The firm McDonnell-Douglas was ...
Experimental deck fighter M.35 Libellula
The use of naval aviation in World War II operations played an important role. British carrier-based fighters "Seafire" and "Sea Hurricane" were a modification of land aircraft and ...
Flying Douglas B-42 Mixmaster
In 1930, the years were marked by the start of a race among bomber designers. Everyone tried to create cars with greater speed, bomb load, range. Realizing that the main blows to ...
MiG MFI - experimental fighter
The MiG MFI is a heavy single-seat fighter, made according to the aerodynamic "duck" scheme with a full-circle front horizontal tail assembly (PGO), ...
A-36A Unknown "Mustang"
Aircraft Р-51 "Mustang" during the Second World War were used almost everywhere. In Europe and the Mediterranean, the plane was primarily known as an escort fighter because ...
Black deer Basic Aviation in the Falkland War
The phrase “black deer” in Russian sounds funny and offensive. In English, Black Buck also doesn’t mean anything good - so the Anglo-Saxons contemptuously called the South American Indians in ...
Swedish spear
Sweden has been and remains one of the few countries in the world capable of creating first-class aviation equipment on its own. Swedish warplanes have always been distinguished by some special "highlight" ...
Stipa-Caproni: one of the most unusual aircraft
Stipa-Caproni is an experimental Italian aircraft designed by Luigi Stipa in 1932, built by Caproni and built by Caproni. As the main material for ...
Hybrid helicopters coming to the fore
After understanding the details of the failed operation to rescue the hostages from the US Embassy in Tehran in 1980, when 3 from 8 helicopters involved in the operation could not perform their task ...
Such a short life. About aircraft TSR.2
Each plane, like a person, has its own destiny. One "lives" a long life, improves and repeats in its modifications. And the other, not having time to really stand on the wing, becomes ...
Air Force of the Islamic Republic of Iran
The Iranian air force is considered an independent type of armed forces, which also includes air defense forces. Also, their own air force has Islamic guard corps ...
Cruise missiles X-101 and X-102
The main armament of Russian strategic bombers are currently cruise missiles of the X-55 family. Ammunition, which appeared in the early eighties, had a high ...
Do-335 "Pfeil" - the fastest piston aircraft in history
Do-335 - heavy German fighter, fighter-bomber from the Second World War, which is often referred to in various sources as Pfeil (Pfayl - it. Arrow). Do-335 ...
Austrian "diamonds" for the Ministry of Defense
Officials of the Russian delegation at the Le Bourget Air Show became interested in the aircraft of the Austrian company Diamond Aircraft Industries GmbH (DAI), which is completely made of composite ...