Aviation History - March 2016 USA

M illions of people collect the American Eagle Silver Dollar. In fact it’s been the country’s most popular Silver Dollar for thi ...

20 AH march 2016 LIFTOFF A British Aerospace Sea Harrier FA.2 takes off from HMS Invincible during Exercise Magic Carpet 05 in M ...

March 2016 AH 21 IN THE ELUSIVE QUEST TO DEVELOP A PRACTICAL VERTICAL TAKEOFF AND LANDING WARPLANE, ONLY THE HAWKER SIDDELEY HAR ...

22 AH march 2016 PREVIOUS PAGES: CROWN COPYRIGHT; LEFT: ©TRINITY MIRROR/ALAMY; RIGHT: IAN TYAS/KEYSTONE/GETTY IMAGES work in the ...

March 2016 AH 23 blage balances in relation to the airplane’s center of gravity and the wing’s center of lift. The Harrier’s Peg ...

24 AH march 2016 TECH NOTES BAE HARRIER II GR.5 SPECIFICATIONS ENGINE Pratt & Whitney F402-RR-406 (Pegasus 105) turbofan pro ...

March 2016 AH 25 ILLUSTRATION: JOHN BATCHELOR; PHOTO: ROLLS-ROYCE Seldom in aviation history have airplane and engine been as mu ...

26 AH march 2016 LEFT: ©CLOVER B. CHRISTENSEN/EPA/CORBIS; RIGHT: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM FKD 2300 Boeing) were of enormous consequen ...

March 2016 AH 27 learned the hard way that it required a particularly skilled pilot to safely fly a Harrier. They had practiced ...

28 AH march 2016 BRITISH AEROSPACE HARRIER II GR.9 COCKPIT Option display unit Head-up display Engine performance panel Master ...

March 2016 AH 29 LEFT: NICK GREENALL; RIGHT: U.S. MARINE CORPS daily Argentine C-130 resup- XTaÆQOP\[\W\PM.ITSTIVL[ D ]ZQVO ...

30 AH march 2016 ARTIST'S CONCEPT Convair’s Model 200, envisioned as a VTOL fighter capable of Mach 2, never left the drawing bo ...

March 2016 AH 31 IN THE EARLY 1970S, THE U.S. NAVY SOUGHT TO DEVELOP VTOL AIRCRAFT THAT COULD FLY FROM SMALL CARRIERS, BUT THE R ...

32 AH march 2016 PREVIOUS PAGES: SAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM; LEFT & BOTTOM RIGHT: COURTESY OF ERIC SIMONSEN; TOP RIGHT ...

March 2016 AH 33 What the Navy lacked was any sort of V/STOL [\ZQSMÅOP\MZ The obvious solution was the Hawker Siddeley 0IZZQMZ ...

34 AH march 2016 The runner-up in the VTOL competition, Con- vair’s Model 200, was never built because it was entirely new from ...

March 2016 AH 35 ILLUSTRATIONS: SAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM; ABOVE: ©2013 LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP. the U.S. Marine Corps adopt ...

happy warrior Captain Albert Ball poses with his Nieuport’s prop and the spinner he devised in hopes of increasing its speed. Wi ...

March 2016 AH 37 LEFT: ©WORLD HISTORY ARCHIVE/ALAMY; ABOVE LEFT: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM ART 3004; ABOVE RIGHT: COURTESY OF ALEX REV ...

38 AH march 2016 “ The day began well. We had scarcely flown to an altitude of six thousand feet when an English squadron of fiv ...