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 ...
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…
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.
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Dec 1, 2024 · Recent Posts. Book reviews: Vought F7U-3 Cutlass & Kawanishi H6K ‘Mavis’ and H8K ‘Emily’ Units; Analysis of China’s new double-delta stealth warplane
The ‘Last Gunfighter’: F-8 Crusader over North Vietnam
Sep 6, 2020 · Chance-Vought F-8 Crusader. The Vought F-8 Crusader entered service in the United States Navy in 1957. 2 It was a single seat and single engine air superiority fighter. Capable of speeds approaching Mach-2, 3 the F-8 was built with one goal in mind: find enemy aircraft and shoot them down. The Crusader was armed with four Colt Mark-12 twenty-millimetre cannon and could also carry four AIM-9 ...
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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.
Mirage F1: The Tomcat killer - Hush-Kit
Nov 24, 2020 · An Iraqi F1 in service with IQAF in the 1980s. The superb French Dassault Mirage F1 was one of the most prolific killers of teen series fighters in the skies of the Middle East. The often over-looked French jet even racked up kills against the best-armed fighter in the world, the seemingly invincible F-14 Tomcat.…
Almost the greatest fighter of World War II: The Martin-Baker MB5
Jan 2, 2019 · Imagine a world without Danny DeVito, Roger Daltrey and George Lucas. There’s a parallel universe where Rick Moranis played Schwarzenegger’s brother in Twins, where The Who never happened and where Star Wars was a military project to make Reagan hard and the Soviet Union broke. This speculative universe is one in which famous figures born in …