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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 2d

From the 2000 'UK Soft Vertical Launch - A Flexible Solution to an Integral Concept for Ground & Naval Air Defence' paper.

(MBDA had joined ownership of Roxel with Safran. It fully owns it since late 2024: www.mbda-systems.com/mbda-makes-r... )

📷 apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/A...

Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 2d

"In May 2008, Protac […] joined Roxel [who makes the CAMM propulsion system]. Protac was founded in 1994 through the merger of the propulsion activities of Thomson Brandt Armements and Bayern-Chemie."
www.roxelgroup.com/en/corporate/

Roxel is the European leader in tactical propulsion systems and a major player in world markets

Based in France and the United Kingdom, Roxel designs, develops, manufactures and sells solid propulsion systems and related equipment for all types of rockets and tactical and cruise missiles for air...

www.roxelgroup.com

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder if the tail-mounted thrusters that orient the missile once it has been ejected worked (at least for the model of the film) according to this 1987 Thomson Brand patent.

- Film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnxg...
- Patent: worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/searc...

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 2d

"F9F-8P LANDING ABOARD USS LEXINGTON (CVA-16)" 1959
🎞️📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/75643

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 2d

"Vought F8U-1 "Crusader" of VMF-235 Squadron 'Death Angels', MCAS Beaufort, S.C."
📑 www.flickr.com/photos/my_pu...

📷 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ge...

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 2d

USMC VMF-235 'Death Angels' F-8A Crusaders, firing Sidewinders and guns, and dumping fuel.

No. 4 is BuNo 143811—stricken off charge in 1964 according to forgottenjets.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/F8U.html

"F-8A Aircraft Takeoff, Landings, and Touch and Go"
🎞️📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/542321899...

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 2d

"F4U with British markings making "pancake" landing on flight strip"
🎞️📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/75991

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 2d

Much recommended!

Hush-Kit aviation news, history & satire @hushkit.bsky.social · 3d

I want to grow on here. If you enjoy what I (and we) do, please do recommend us. Much appreciated (Corsair edition of this tweet)

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Hush-Kit aviation news, history & satire @hushkit.bsky.social · 3d

I want to grow on here. If you enjoy what I (and we) do, please do recommend us. Much appreciated (Corsair edition of this tweet)

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 2d

The Italians used numerous Pontoni Armati

www.agenziabozzo.it/navi_da_guer...

Pontoni Armati Italiani nella Guerra 1915 - 1918

www.agenziabozzo.it

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 2d

"Towing an armed pontoon"
📷📑 www.alamy.com/the-civil-go...

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 2d

"An armed pontoon"
📷📑 www.alamy.com/the-civil-go...

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 2d

By a Paltus (or X-Ray) class boat?

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 2d

"ATLANTIC OCEAN (April 6, 2019) Sailors aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) load a RIM-7P NATO Sea Sparrow missile into its launcher. […] (U.S. Navy video by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Allayah Carr/Released)"

🎞️📑 www.dvidshub.net/video/670891...

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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 3d

Neptune missiles compared

New article on Ukraine’s home grown land attack cruise missile at www.hisutton.com/Ukrainian-Ne...

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Олександр Бузько @oleksa79buzko.bsky.social · 3d

Hs129A-0, eine der Nullserien mit Argus As 410A-1-Triebwerken.

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 3d

Truth be told, it appears that aviation blooming in California was inevitable. Fair weather, financing, entrepreneurship, sympathetic media, cosmopolitan atmosphere, etc, made for a very compelling case.

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 3d

I blame Augustus Roy Knabenshue and Charles Willard for organising the 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field and Glenn Curtiss for bringing his prestige to it. Randolph Hearst experienced his first flight there, and William Boeing was deeply impressed.

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 3d

There was so much interconnection back then.

bsky.app/profile/mass...

Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · Jun 12

Malcolm Loughead (Malcolm Lockheed), Allan Loughead (Allan Lockheed), Jack Northrop, and William Rundolf Hearst with a Loughead HS-2L flying boat. 1918

📷 www.flickr.com/photos/sdasm...

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Олександр Бузько @oleksa79buzko.bsky.social · 3d

Machine gun crew of Company B, 137th Infantry Regiment, US Army. August 1918.

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Олександр Бузько @oleksa79buzko.bsky.social · 3d

Curtiss P-36C of the US Army Air Force in flight, 1939. P-36Cs of the 27th Pursuit Squadron of the 1st Pursuit Group were camouflaged in various schemes for the US National Air Races in 1939.

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 3d

Some great footage here:

"TRAINING OF COAST ARTILLERY TROOPS, 1918"
🎞️ catalog.archives.gov/id/24678
🎞️ catalog.archives.gov/id/24678?obj...

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 3d

catalog.archives.gov/search?page=...

The online portal to the records held at the National Archives, and information about those records.

catalog.archives.gov

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 3d

"111-SC-2173 - United States Marines in France - Learning to pass sandbags - French alpines acting as instructors"

📷📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/55165699

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 3d

"111-SC-2171 - United States Marines in France - Alpine Chasseurs acting as instructors to Marines at their training camp"

📷 catalog.archives.gov/id/55165695

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