McDonnell Aircraft Corporation's F-4 Phantom was quickly becoming the do-all fighter by the mid 1960s, able to lug thousands of pounds of bombs on one mission and then strictly air-to-air missiles the ...
Key Points - The Soviet Mikoyan MiG-23 "Flogger," a variable-sweep wing fighter designed in the late 1960s to succeed the MiG-21, became the most produced swing-wing aircraft, boasting Mach 2+ speed, ...
Anyone can build a remote control airplane with a sheet of foam, some glue, and a handful of servos. Building an F-14, complete with the swing wing mechanism? [Thomas] found built one that’ll take you ...
Key Points and Summary - Born for Cold War fleet defense, the F-14 Tomcat paired swing-wing agility with the AWG-9 radar and AIM-54 Phoenix to hunt bombers at range and still dogfight up close. -A ...
When Boeing Co. beat out Lockheed Aircraft Corp. for the prize of building the U.S. supersonic jet transport, it was on the basis of a venturesome swing-wing concept that many aeronautical designers ...
For many military watchers, the Sukhoi name is synonymous with the clean flowing lines of the Su-27, Su-30, and Su-35 series of Flanker aircraft or the squat and stubby Su-25 ground attack aircraft.
Has anyone here seen the old American sitcom The Odd Couple? Admittedly, I haven't. But that doesn't mean I can't milk the title to make ham-fisted comparisons between two aerospace companies. Fokker ...
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