Hush-Kit
hushkit.net · Group blog · on HN since 2015
Hush-Kit is an aviation site with articles on military aircraft, their design history, cockpits and air forces.
What HN saysHN links it for aviation history details, such as the Lippisch P 13 coal-powered jet, why military aircraft are gray, and the origin of 'Bitchin' Betty'.
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CharlesW · 2024-01-22
The voice is actress and singer Joan Elms, known as "Sexy Sally" to the B-58 crew: https://hushkit.net/2018/02/05/f-15-pilot-shares-the-history-of-bitchi…
rwmj · 2022-08-29
Towards the end of the war, Germany was so short of oil that they researched a coal-powered fighter jet: https://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.php?aircraft_id=1078 https://hushkit.net/2019/03/29/the-lippisch-p-13-supersonic-wonder-pla…
jabl · 2022-08-01
Slightly related, in case anyone wonders why most military aircraft are gray and not the camouflage patterns that were previously common on top surfaces, hushkit has a writeup: https://hushkit.net/2020/03/09/grey-aircraft-who-is-to-blame/
tl;dr: gray is a good camouflage color against clouds or haze, which is a fairly common background for aircraft operating at mid to high altitudes.
(The logic is fairly similar to what results in Navy ships being painted haze gray and not azure blue or whatever color the ocean happens to be today)