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Tragic backstory of spiralling costs, technological difficulties and ultimate cancellation aside. The McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II, aka the Flying Dorito, would've been a wild-looking naval strike fighter! Imagine a carrier deck full of them...
Supermarine Seafires on HMS Indomitable circa 1943 - and the best book you can buy on the Seafire! Written by @NavalAirHistory and available from us here: https://t.co/c458DFGw1X
F-4E dropping six Mark 82 low-drag 500lb bombs. The Phantom was one of the first true multirole fighters. #PhantomFriday
Vickers' Wellesley - the ugliest-looking British aircraft of all time? And still in service at the beginning of 1942.😧
Tally ho chaps! A flight of Bristol Blenheims from 114 Sqn - a very modern-looking bomber for 1937.
Back in the late 1960s, McDonnell Douglas still had ambitions to build America's supersonic transport. Imagine if this had been built as a competitor for Concorde!
@clark_aviation Crucial is overstating it. The SB.5 only existed because the RAE didn't believe English Electric's figures for the Lightning's layout. But the SB.5 simply served to prove that English Electric were right all along. See Tony Wilson's excellent new book: https://t.co/ekb9Je0BwH
At the very end of WW2, Heinkel proposed fitting two As 014 pulsejets (lots spare from V1 flying bomb production!) to its He 162 airframe to compensate for the shortage of BMW 003 turbojets. Read about it in our book on the type's development: https://t.co/KYsgk1af97
Concept art for Convair's innovative VTOL Vertiliner from the early 1960s. Not a million miles away from the configuration of today's VTOL drones!
Killing Soviet bombers before they could unleash nuclear devastation was the goal of Britain's 1950s interceptor programme. It's fully detailed in Cold War Interceptor by Dan Sharp and you can get 15% off with code BOOKS15 here: https://t.co/EDbcYUgY0r