The Saab 37 Viggen is a retired Swedish single-seat, single-engine, short-medium range combat aircraft. Development work on the type was initiated at Saab in 1952 and, following the selection of a radical delta wing configuration, the resulting aircraft performed its first flight on 8 February 1967 and entered service in 21 June 1971. It was …
MoreThe Matra R422 missile is a semi-active electromagnetically guided surface-to-air missile designed by Matra (France) in the 1950s.
The R422 was developed by Matra as part of the French army’s SA20 program for long-range surface-to-air (SALP). It was then in competition with DEFA PARCA and SNCASE SE.4400. It had to be able to intercept bombers flying …
MoreLiquid-propellant rocket engine RD-170. Designed by V. Glushko in 1976. RD-170 – the most powerful liquid-propellant engine. Its operating time – about two minutes. During this time it consumes 2393 kg of oxidizer and fuel per second: a 60-ton railway tanker passes through its turbopump in just 25 seconds.
MoreBlue Citroën C61 truck from 1930: Martell cognac delivery. Cognac city model
MoreEPOS. A Soviet analogue of experimental piloted orbit aircraft from 1976 (product 105-11) by Mikoyan DB. Chief designer – G. Lozino-Lozinsky.
Was tested to exercise approach system, access stability and control capability of the aircraft – dropped from the altitude of 5500 m from the carrier Tu-95. Crew -1, take-off weight – 4400 kg, length …
MoreThe Canadair CL-215 (Scooper) is the first model in a series of flying boat amphibious aircraft designed and built by Canadian aircraft manufacturer Canadair, and later produced by Bombardier. It is one of only a handful of large amphibious aircraft to have been produced in large numbers during the post-war era, and the first to …
MoreC.A.S.E. Corp. traction engine from 1899 (SA).
The Case Corporation was a manufacturer of construction equipment and agricultural equipment. Founded, in 1842, by Jerome Increase Case as the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company, it operated under that name for most of a century. For another 66 years it was the J. I. Case Company, and …
MoreBugatti speed railcar ZZY 24408 from 1934
It was in 1932 that the Bugatti railcar (the Wagon Rapide WR, after the name of the manufacturer) was designed by Ettore Bugatti’s design office.
The railcar is powered by four gasoline engines, 8 cylinders in line of 12,750 cm3, an overhead camshaft, each supplied by two Zenith carburettors: the …
MoreThe SNCF 7199 (class Y 7100) diesel shunting engine from 1960 (France).
The Y 7100 class of small shunters originally had 210 members. The first 130 were built by Billard, with the remaining 80 by Decauville. They have the 0-4-0 (“B”) wheel arrangement, 150 kW diesel engines and hydraulic transmission. They can be found all over …
MoreLamborghini tractor C230 S from 1964
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