How to treat an F-16 fighter plane - Hush-Kit
Dec 8, 2024 · "Air-to-Air? No problem. Air-to-Mud? No problem. Close Air Support? No problem. It is easy to maintain and quick-turn capable. It's not a glamour jet; it just can do everything well." Former USAF Crew Chief Derek Palos explains how to keep an F-16 flying, how to avoid 'Falcon bites' and the story of inter-unit aircraft graffiti…
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…
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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
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.
Why the cancellation of the TSR-2 may have been a good thing
Jul 6, 2019 · For many in Britain, a nation saved by air power in World War II, military aircraft are colossally symbolic. The wartime Spitfire and Lancaster were figureheads for British pride, and throughout the 1950s, the nation's futuristic jets were much trumpeted. Here, in thundering rivetted aluminium, was a tangible reminder that this was a technologically advanced superpower.
Flak: myth versus reality with Donald Nijboer - Hush-Kit
Mar 25, 2021 · Much feared by military aircrew, flak blew thousands of aeroplanes from the sky across the 20th century. We grilled Donald Nijboer author of Flak in World War II, about the dreaded flak. What is Flak? "Flak is an acronym/initialism for the German word, Flugabwehrkanone, meaning aircraft-defence cannon. When the Allies began to use the term is…
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.…
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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.
How good is China’s J-10C fighter? We ask Justin Bronk ... - Hush-Kit
Feb 26, 2019 · The Chinese J-10 is in service in large, and growing, numbers. The latest version, the J-10C, is a formidable machine. We spoke to Justin Bronk, Research Fellow for Airpower and Technology at the RUSI think-tank to find out more. No nation has more new aircraft programmes than China, and the progress it has made in the twenty years has been spectacular.