There are other unusual aircraft here, including this British-designed Armstrong Whitworth Argosy, a four-engined civilian transport which because of its noisy turbo-prop engines and twin-tail was nicknamed the "whistling wheelbarrow". The Argosy was never a common plane, but they did operate in...
The Y-20, developed by Xi’an Aircraft Industrial Corporation (Xian) for the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), is the biggest indigenous strategic airlifter ever built in China. The aircraft has a maximum take-off weight of 220t and can carry a payload of 60t. The Y-20 pro...
Airbus owner EADS has been dealt another blow following the announcement of delays to its flagship military transport aircraft programme. The A400M will be held up by between six and 12 months because of development and control software problems with its turbo-prop engine. Sener Aeronautica and Rol...
Bordgeräte npl aircraft equipment; aircraft instruments. Bordlafette / gun mount on ship or airplane. Bordlartdefackel / landing flare (Avn). Bordmannschaft/ air crew. Bord-Maschinengewehr n aircraft machine gun. Bordmechaniker m flight engineer. Bordmonteur m aircraft mechanic; flight engineer...
Yagen owns close to 60 aircraft. Some of the airplanes are off-site, including a Kingfisher, a Focke Wulf 190 and a de Havilland DH-89 Rapide, which is a large twin-engine biplane. Others under restoration reside at the Fighter Factory, the aircraft recovery and restoration component of th...
The Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King (company designation S-61) is an American twin-engined anti-submarine warfare (ASW) helicopter designed and built by Sikorsky Aircraft. It was a landmark design, being the first ASW helicopter to take advantage of turboshaft en
Golden BB– that lucky small arms round that brought down a helicopter or other aircraft. Grunt:noun, an infantryman, also called “Ground pounders” Gooks:Derogatory term referencing VC or NVA soldiers. Also called:“Chuck“,“Charlie”, “Dinks” and “Slopes” ...
surfaces, and whose free flight does not depend on an engine Four turboprop engine tilting wing aircraft A Tiltrotor generates lift and propulsion by way of one or more powered rotors (sometimes called proprotors) mounted on rotating engine pods or nacelles usually at the ends of a fixed wing...
Numerous attempts weremade to improve the performance of the mighty Jug. One experimental model set a speed record of 505 mph (810 km/h). No piston engine aircraft would top that until 1989. In 1942, Republic reported that its plots had broken the then-elusive ‘sound barrier’ during P-...
(jointly designed) is underway at the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex Kamra. The JF-17 Thunder is a 4th generation fly by wire multi-role fighter aircraft. Eight are already in PAF service. An order has been placed with China for the purchase of 36 JF-10, a Mach 2.3 -5th generation multi...