aviation - the past, present and future of flight

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N early 50 years have passed since the US Marine Corps began operations with 38 single-engine AH-1G Cobras, borrowed from the US ...

increase in the aircraft’s maximum gross weight and speed. In July 1995, the US Navy launched the H-1 upgrades programme which w ...

features hydraulically boosted actuators. Additionally, a four-axis automatic flight control system (AFCS), which includes a sta ...

Two universal stations under each stub wing can carry 2.75in (70mm) rockets in 7-tube LAU-68 or 19-tube LAU-61 launchers, one AI ...

received a $20m contract to develop tooling required for the new-build aircraft. It also included integration and quali cation ...

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T im Hewlett joined the RAF on October 2, 1967 and earned his ‘wings’ at RAF College Cranwell, Lincolnshire, on the Jet Provost. ...

JAGUAR SQUJAGUAR SQU ADRON BOSSADRON BOSS We saw plenty of Turkish  ghters, F-84Fs, RF-84Fs and F-100s, which  ew around the c ...

The task was flying close air support, sometimes interdiction, but primarily providing top cover for helicopter missions. He sai ...

NAVY PHANTOMS Tim joined the RAF Phantom OCU at Coningsby in January 1977 for a 70-hour air defence role course, then on to the ...

“I joined 6 Sqn at RAF Coltishall in July 1979, a senior flight lieutenant, reasonably experienced on three different aircraft a ...

OPERATION WARDEN Tim’s first thought was: “How do I turn this around? I wanted to get us away from Coltishall for a while. By su ...

SA-3s surface-to-air missiles being unloaded from a Baghdad train in the rail yard. “I took the images, taken less than 90 minut ...

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T he Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace Centre - DLR) is Germany’s national organisation tasked with re ...

mission,” said Brieger. “The aircraft can actually reach the stratosphere – it has a ceiling of 51,000ft. It also has a range of ...

The aircraft is usually fitted with a sensor pod on one of the underwing hardpoints and a boom. “We generally stick booms on all ...

controls, the flight control computers and the actuators for rotor-blade control. DLR says the advantages of FBL over FBW includ ...

has its own design organisation for this. “The G550 is completely booked out until 2019 – there’s not a single day we can spare ...