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Re: Rockwell?

Postby Deputy » Tue Mar 18, 2003 11:15 pm

That sounds about right.
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Re: Rockwell?

Postby Smoke2much » Thu Mar 20, 2003 9:49 pm

Going back to the Hawker comment from Orenda.  Not only was it the same company but the same designer was involved.  

"Camm's remarkable series of successful aircraft designs range from his Hawker Cygnet biplane of 1924 to the VTOL P1127 of 1960 and include such immortals as the Hart and Hurricane. The beautiful little Cygnet weighed only 375 lb and was the Hawker entry for the Air Ministry Light Aeroplane Competition at Lympne in 1924."

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Re: Rockwell?

Postby Mr. Bones » Fri Mar 21, 2003 10:35 am

Rockwell International built four B-1A bombers in the early seventies, but Nixon stopped financing the project and they had to stop the production.

about ten years later, Reagan ordered 100 B-1B Lancers. in the mean while, Rockwell International was taking over by North American Aircraft and they built the B version.

after that, North American Aircraft became, just as lots of other aircraft builders, in the hands of Boeing.
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Re: Rockwell?

Postby denishc » Fri Mar 21, 2003 1:17 pm

 Right idea, wrong President, Jimmy Carter put the stops to the B-1 infavor of the cruise missile.  Reagan revived the B-1 during his term.
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Re: Rockwell?

Postby Mr. Bones » Sat Mar 22, 2003 9:52 am

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Re: Rockwell?

Postby denishc » Sat Mar 22, 2003 8:40 pm

 I may be mistaken, but as I remember theb B-1 was only in the mock-up stage in 1974, the year Nixon left office.  
 I'm curious, what is your source?  Are you sure it wasn't the XB-70, that too was a Rockwell project.  
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Re: Rockwell?

Postby Mr. Bones » Sun Mar 23, 2003 5:12 am

sorry, i was wrong, indeed, it was president Carter, but hey whatever...  ;)
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