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Dassault’s Canarded Killer
In the mid-1970s, France’s air force and navy both wanted to upgrade their fighter jets. Instead of developing their own, they decided to team up with several other European countries to help share...
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Less Than Three the DC-3
The Douglas DC-3 is certainly iconic, and as a kid into all things mechanical–planes, trains, and automobiles!–the DC-3 was my favorite plane. I might have been a little weird. But, that appreciation...
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The Blimp is Dead: Long Live the Zeppelin!
On March 14, Goodyear announced the completion of its newest “blimp”, and the craft had her maiden flight March 18. To sort of celebrate the occasion, Goodyear has released a time lapse of the ship’s...
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Saturday Morning Commercial
Most every company uses some for of advertising, but certainly not all ads and commercials are created equally. Sometimes it is the high level of creativity of the ad itself, but sometimes, every now...
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A Plane In Every Garage – The Ercoupe
Just Remember The Useful Load is 511 Pounds With Two People AND Fuel Making the claim of the safest plane in the skies in the late forties is rather risky but that is what this designer did and it lead...
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Guest Post: Saddle Up
[We have been fighting an unusually dense influx of spam comments lately, as we have mentioned before (still over 300 a day!), but there have been a few surprise legitimate comments in amongst the...
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Atomic Toasters Goes To The Zoo
About half way between Detroit and Chicago sits the city of Kalamazoo, MI. Originally the home of Gibson guitars and now a major center in the craft beer movement, Kalamazoo seems to be a calm town....
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Congratulations! It’s Twins!
Fodder’s post on the Ercoupe stimulated my research juices, especially that image of the twin, so it was off to the googles! This intriguing machine was the work of Grady Thrasher, of the Thrasher...
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BAC TSR-2: When An Aircraft Plays (Political) Football
The aeronautical landscape is littered with the rotting shells and mylar prints of cancelled aircraft programs. Setting out to push the boundaries of man’s capability often goes hand in hand with...
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Betting Man
Last week marked 58 years since a relatively unknown yet undoubtedly impressive stunt was pulled off in New York City (and this week is 56 years since it was pulled off again, but we’ll get to that...
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The Cold War That Wasn’t – The Convair YB-60
A young “cowboy”, the son of a member of the Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California, looks over the Convair built YB-60 during its visit at Edwards from the Fort Worth, Texas,...
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Atomic Fission – When The Nuke Needs To Be There Yesterday:The Convair B-58...
Convair B-58 Hustler During the cold war we found that the best way a bomber could penetrate enemy defenses was to go higher and faster the defenses of the day. With this in mind the US Air Force...
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Atomic Fission – The Lockheed XF-90 An Arrow to the Heart of the Enemy
Lockheed XF-90 The Lockheed XF-90 was one of the beautiful designs of the Cold War. Although like most fighters of the era it was underpowered and heavy but as with most things in life you can get...
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The Cold War That Wasn’t – The Turboprop B-52
The original B-52 design study The B-52 was originally going to be a turboprop aircraft and not the plane we know today. Let’s look at the implications of what this would have changed. The change...
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Antiquity in the Age of the Atom – Douglas A-1 Skyraider
This picture is from 21 years after WWII During the Cold War the atom changed everything or did it. Some things age like a fine wine, cheese, or technology. Douglas XBT2D-1 Let’s take a step back...
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Antiquity in the age of the atom – The A-26 Invader
In a war with mach 2 bombers this was a leftover from another age One of WWII’s great planes that would go on to see a long and varied career that would last thirty five years. One of the poster...
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