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Here's a size comparison of some of the more popular USAF and Soviet interceptors. Look at the size of that Tu-128 "Fiddler" 😗 It was the world's largest and heaviest jet fighter!

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2023-01-07

A cutaway drawing of the then "revolutionary" Grumman F-14 Tomcat from the January 1970 issue of the Popular Mechanics Magazine. Artwork by Fred Wolff.

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2022-10-14

Lockheed L-133 Starjet was an attempt to build the first jet fighter of the USAAF during the first half of WW2

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2022-09-16

The Focke Wulf P 03-10 was a covert German Nazi mixed-propulsion project that remained at this stage. The Douglas XA-42 Mixmaster had a similar architecture but appears to be a standalone Douglas design

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2022-09-06

Stunning image of an English Electric Lightning

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2022-09-05

Something like McDonnell-Douglas MD500N NOTAR (NO TAil Rotor). The air is expelled through two slots of the tailboom causing a boundary-layer control called the Coanda Effect. The result is that the tailboom becomes a "wing" https://t.co/haazYSFcs5

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2022-08-21

Getting ready for the Chicago Air and Water show in just a couple of weeks ✈️#aviationdaily

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2022-08-08

The Valkyrie
Weekend sketches, pencil and chalk on grey recycling paper.

I hope you like them 😉
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2022-03-01

4/ Interestingly, the B-18 Bolo's top turret seems retractable. I see the nose turrets. Yet I'm having a hard time seeing the ventral turrets, however. Presumably they're also retractable. Any ideas from anyone?

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2021-12-07

The first AEW aircraft: Wellington Ic "Air Controlled Interception" (serial R1629), with its rotating radar antenna

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2021-08-16

Two De Havilland Sea Vixens carrying out Buddy-Buddy refueling

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2021-06-23

Seaplane of the day:
Intended as reconnaissance floatplane was equipped with two tandem cockpits, the front open for the pilot and the rear closed with large windows for the observer

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2021-05-28

The Douglas A-20 Havoc/Boston equipped with Turbinlite with a 2,700 million candlepower searchlight in the nose.
https://t.co/cAKKYpPeeM

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2021-05-25