Korea Wants Its Own Meteor Missile

Korea Wants Its Own Meteor Missile

Military Aviation, News

South Korea has built its own stealth-shaped fighter. Now it wants its own long reach to go with it. On August 12, Korea Aerospace Industries and Hyundai Rotem signed a memorandum of understanding at KAI’s Sacheon headquarters to jointly develop a domestic...
XP-81, America’s First Turboprop Escort Fighter

XP-81, America’s First Turboprop Escort Fighter

Military Aviation

From the front it looks like a Mustang that ate a bigger meal. A four-bladed propeller, a long slim nose, a bubble canopy. Then you notice the jet exhaust at the tail, and the Convair XP-81 stops making sense in the best possible way. This was a fighter with two kinds...
Kaman K-MAX, Synchropter That Outlifts Itself

Kaman K-MAX, Synchropter That Outlifts Itself

Aviation World

Watch a K-MAX work a mountainside and something looks wrong. Two rotor masts lean apart in a shallow V, their blades slicing through each other’s arc, and yet nothing collides. There is no tail rotor at all. This is the Kaman K-MAX, a synchropter built for one...