Alternative Aircraft Design

Saab and Sweden itself can be considered something of a unique phenomenon in the modern aerospace industry. Designing and manufacturing advanced combat ...

Historically, the world's first true stealth aircraft, the F-117A Nighthawk, was a machine of compromises. In pursuit of revolutionary radar invisibility, its ...

The North American P-51 Mustang is rightly considered one of the greatest fighter planes of World War II. Its range, speed, maneuverability, and reliability ...

As far back as the 1970s, in the USSR and other countries around the world—such as West Germany—work was actively underway on military transport VTOL aircraft. ...

I’m sorry to disappoint anyone who thinks this is going to be about yet another American startup developing a new super-heavy aircraft. That’s not the case at ...

I've added a few illustrations to this archived post from April 2020. The Me.155 was originally planned as a carrier-based fighter for the aircraft ...