This series documents important aspects of the war in Southeast Asia. Originally published by the Airpower Research Institute at Maxwell…
On 4 January 1955 the USAF issued Systems Requirement SR-12 for the Weapons System WS-118P high-speed reconnaissance vehicle. Range was…
Vertical and/or Short Take-Off and Landing (V/STOL) is a term used to describe aircraft that are able to take-off or…
Background Project Silver Bug was the American "Black" project version of the Avro Aircraft Canada Y-2 undertaken by the United…
The Combat Talon was initially developed between December 1964 and January 1967 by Lockheed Air Services (LAS) at Ontario, California,…
The Lun-class ekranoplan (NATO reporting name Duck) was a ground effect aircraft designed by Rostislav Evgenievich Alexeev and used by…
Download Quieting the Boom: The Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstrator and the Quest for Quiet Supersonic Flight [401 Pages, 5.5MB] By Lawrence R.…
Introduction The NASA AD-1 was both an aircraft and an associated flight test program conducted between 1979 and 1982 at…
The VZ-9-AV Avrocar (official designation but often listed as VZ-9) was a Canadian VTOL aircraft developed by Avro Aircraft Ltd.…
Project Isinglass was the code name given to two heavily classified, manned reconnaissance aircraft studied by the Central Intelligence Agency…