Category: Cold War
The Handley Page Victor..A classic jet Bomber….
The Handley Page Victor.We take a tour around this cold war jet bomber with,WG.CDR.Bob Prothero pilot officer commanding 55 Sqn (RTD) and other crewRead More…
The Classified Sinking of the Submarine USS Thresher
USS Thresher was the lead submarine of her class of nuclear-powered attack boats in the 1960s. Named after the thresher shark, the US Navy submarineRead More…
The Saunders Roe SR -53 Story.
This is the story of the Saunders Roe SR -53,to the SR-77.very well explained by its engineers and the test pilots who flew her..and there is also gRead More…
Il-2 Shturmovik – The secret of the immortal flying tank of the Soviet Air Force
The Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik had a wingspan of 14.6 m, an empty weight of more than 4 tons, a maximum take-off weight of 6.2 tons. It was equipped witRead More…
The Super Marine Scimitar
The Super Marine Scimitar,This is the story of another Great British jet, explained by the pilots that flew her in those daysRead More…
The BUFF – Big Ugly Fat Fella
“Fella” is the more polite term for the aircraft commonly referred to as the BUFF ;)—Military aircraft development is a fast-moving process in whichRead More…
The Forgotten Flying Wing…
The XB-35 flying wing could have only existed thanks to one man, Jack Northrop, a brilliant engineer who realized that aircraft design had gone in tRead More…
When a Torpedo Got Stuck in the Side of a Submarine
Two years before the Cold War ended with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, there was a peculiar accident involving a Soviet Navy’s nuclear submaRead More…
The Best American Plane to Never Fight – XB-51
The Martin XB-51 was a colossal bomber aircraft built in the late 1940s that exceeded all expectations and was probably the finest bomber that never wRead More…
Here’s is World’s Largest and Fastest Bomber Ever Built For the United States Air Force
Enter the XB-70 Valkyrie, the largest and fastest bomber the US has ever built. It is the “largest and fastest bomber” the US has ever built, accordinRead More…