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Top Ten Carrier Fighters 2015
Carrier-borne fighters are a rare beast, with only the US boasting a sizeable force. Selection for a top ten was easy, as there’s barely ten types in total! The ordering of these types was a lot harder...
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What the hell is wrong with aviation nerds?
I get it. Some people find aircraft and aviation all-consuming and fascinating. They cream their keks over the physics of it all. The turbines, the atmospheric pressures and gravitational forces at...
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The US Army’s Ring-Wing Transformer: The strange story of the Convair Model 49
In the 1960s the US Army were growing sick of dependence on inappropriate USAF aircraft for the close support mission. Aircraft like the Republic F-105 Thunderchief were simply too fast and too...
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Kick the tyres and light the fires.. pilots and their cliches
Tired old cliches are standard issue to every pilot. Here are some of the old groaners that will have you banging your head against the table in exasperation. Remove 100 hours from your logbook for...
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Top Twelve Contra-Rotating Lunatics
By the mid-1940s the limitations of piston aero engines were becoming apparent. Every possible scheme to squeeze the last bit of power from the internal combustion engine was tried. One of the most...
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Why the Mach3 razor annoys aviation addicts
Martin Cloe investigates the link between razors and planes and decides he’s not happy. Apart from the excellent treatments for testicular cancer, the best thing about being a man in the modern age is...
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The Ten Greatest Biplane Fighters
Image credit: http://www.timetoast.com The two periods in which biplane fighters saw combat in significant numbers oddly coincided with the beginning and very end of the fighting biplane‘s development...
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Top Ten Fighters at the outbreak of World War II
The fighter aircraft was never more important than it was during the global calamity that began in 1939. However, at this time of need, the fighter types available were pretty limited to say the least....
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Maslow’s Hammer: How will the F-35 affect foreign policy?
In a 2007 interview with former General Wesley Clark, he described how Rumsfeld told him (on the 20th September 2001), “We’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and...
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The Top Ten Fighters: 1985
The 1980s was the last decade to witness air-to-air combat on a large scale, and the fighters of this age were impressively capable machines. Advances in radar, missile and man-machine interface...
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The ten best-looking US Navy airplanes
The US Navy has had such a dazzling selection of beautiful airplanes, that we must accept that there has to be omissions in this list. Despite this, we hope you enjoy our choice- the following ten are...
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The 11 worst Soviet aircraft
The Soviet Union lasted a mere sixty-nine years (the Spitfire has been flying longer), but in that time produced some of the largest, fastest, toughest and most agile aircraft. Even now, 25 years after...
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The secret life of aircraft
Looking up at an aeroplane in the sky, have you ever wondered where it originally came from- and where it will end its life? We take a fascinating look at the secret life of aeroplanes. Use the donate...
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The 10 worst US aircraft
Abraham Lincoln noted that America will never be destroyed from the outside. Likewise the most serious threats to the US aircraft industry have always come from within, as demonstrated by the...
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10 Incredible Soviet Fighter Aircraft that never entered service
Faced with such a mouth-watering menu of Soviet fighter projects that never entered service, it was almost painful to select a mere ten. I won’t promise anything, but when the Hush-Kit writers are next...
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The 10 coolest cancelled airliners
Every now and again, I get a pang of guilt for celebrating military aircraft and ignoring the world of commercial aviation. But as soon as I start reading about modern airliners I start remembering...
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Top 8 Mach 3 fighters
As well as being a razor, mach 3 is a speed. It’s very fast. Flying at mach 3 produces oven-like skin temperatures and requires aircraft with exotic propulsion systems, and structures wrought from...
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The top fighter aircraft of 2017 (BVR combat)
Picture credit: Jamie Hunter To excel in Beyond Visual Range air combat a fighter must be well-armed and equipped with capable avionics. It must be able to fly high and fast to impart the maximum range...
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