Analysis of China’s new double-delta stealth warplane
Dec 26, 2024 · Video of a new Chinese aircraft of novel configuration has caused a stir. We ask Jim Smith, former British aircraft technical liaison to Washington, his thoughts. The size is consistent with a multi-role aircraft with potential for strategic air defence and strike roles. The configuration is clearly aimed at low signature, particularly the absence of…
The great supersonic switch | Hush-Kit
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f16 – Hush-Kit
Dec 8, 2024 · Tell me something I don’t know about F-16s? Well, a little nugget I like to share is that something like 70% of the F-16 components are reversible, meaning landing gear and flight surfaces can work on both sides with minor changes.
Heinkel He 177: the Bomber that Won the War - Hush-Kit
Jun 15, 2021 · Thank you. Our merchandise shop is here and our Twitter account here @Hush_Kit.. Sign up for our newsletter here. Nonetheless, when working properly the He 177 possessed a performance that could not be ignored and the aircraft entered production, beginning with 35 A-0 pre production models followed by 130 A-1s, the latter all built under subcontract by Arado. virtually all of these aircraft ...
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Dec 26, 2024 · Posts about usa written by Hush Kit. Video of a new Chinese aircraft of novel configuration has caused a stir.
Flak: myth versus reality with Donald Nijboer - Hush-Kit
Mar 25, 2021 · Much feared by military aircrew, flak blew thousands of aeroplanes from the sky across the 20th century. We grilled Donald Nijboer author of Flak in World War II, about the dreaded flak. What is Flak? "Flak is an acronym/initialism for the German word, Flugabwehrkanone, meaning aircraft-defence cannon. When the Allies began to use the term is…
Book Reviews – Hush-Kit
Jan 7, 2025 · Aviation Book Reviews. Vought F7U-3 Cutlass Hardcover –2024, Crecy. Tommy H Thomason and Alfred C Casby. FIVE STARS. When this popped up on a Facebook page (I think it was The Aviation Enthusiast Book Club), the aviation writer Bill Sweetman wryly replied that 384 pages devoted to the Cutlass were rather too generous a treatment and compared it to a boxset of the music of Yoko Ono.
Why the cancellation of the TSR-2 may have been a good thing
Jul 6, 2019 · For many in Britain, a nation saved by air power in World War II, military aircraft are colossally symbolic. The wartime Spitfire and Lancaster were figureheads for British pride, and throughout the 1950s, the nation's futuristic jets were much trumpeted. Here, in thundering rivetted aluminium, was a tangible reminder that this was a technologically advanced superpower.
Is one or two engines better in a fighter? - Hush-Kit
Sep 3, 2024 · The debate on single versus twin engines for fighter aircraft continues. Paul Stoddart* follows Gen Chuck Horner and David Baker, PhD into the ring. The choice of engine is a fundamental design driver for any aircraft – both the type and the number. One or two engines and one or two seats are fundamental choices…
Top 10 Japanese Aircraft Of World War II - Hush-Kit
May 21, 2023 · Vol 2 can be pre-ordered here.. The Hush-Kit Book of Warplanes Vol 1 here and Vol 2 here. 6. Kawasaki Ki-100. 五式戦闘機, Go-shiki sentouki (Type 5 Fighter) Few fighter aircraft in history have made a successful switch from an inline powerplant to a radial (or vice versa) but one of the finest examples of this rare breed was the Ki-100 and its existence was very much a case of force ...