1930s

A handful of examples of the Saro/Blackburn Segrave twin-engined light touring monoplane were built in the early 1930s, mainly by Blackburn at Brough. Some were license-built by Piaggio as the P.12, but I don't know how many (Wikipedia suggests just two). The last Blackburn-built Segrave was...

Does anyone have any more or better information about the Saurer FLB 2000 engine from the 1940s? Some of the information indicates maybe 2 stroke, fuel injection, opposed pistons, rhombic drive? http://www.saurer-romandie.ch/La%20maison%20Saurer/les%20dates%20et%20faits%20importants.htm

New book available which may be of tangential interest to SPF members. Automotive history is filled with concepts which never left the drawing board, with early streamlined projects being among the more fascinating. This book presents ten of the most striking and unusual aerodynamic automobile...

Enrico Cernuschi and Vincent O'Hara's article on Italian aircraft carrier design ("Search for a Flattop: The Italian Navy and the Aircraft Carrier 1907-2007") in Warship 2007 has a passing mention of two mid-1930s proposals for carrier-based aircraft: the Caproni Ca.165 biplane fighter and a...

The history about it i can see it : http://www.go2war2.nl/artikel/4504/Focke-Wulf-Fw-200-Condor.htm?page=2 Anyone have more about it ?

Hi, the Swedish company Svenska Aero Aktiebolaget was formed in 1921 to build some Heinkel aircraft and its own designs,in 1931 liquidated and taken over by the Svenska Järnvägsverkstäderna,AB,and in 1939 the company merged with Svensak Aeroplan AB to create SAAB. Heinkel HE 1...

Hi! Aichi Experimental AM-10 two-seat Reconnaissance Seaplane. In 1933,Aichi designed single wing experimental AM-10 two-seat reconnaissance seaplane apart from the experimental 8-shi reconnaissance seaplane. This airplane possessed the cantilevering system taper wing by which the feature of...

Hi, a very weird airplane designed by Alexander Chessin and Serge Trey. http://blog.modernmechanix.com/inventors-patent-odd-designs-for-safer-planes/1/#mmGal

Hi, here is a strange airplane concept,I never saw like it before ?. https://books.google.com.au/books?id=yyUDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=POPULAR+SCIENCE+1935&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCwQ6AEwBGoVChMI-NHVp73WxwIVh44sCh3cXAzB#v=onepage&q&f=false

Cy-27 said that he was working on a Weir designation list which which was the kick in the pants needed to prompt me to finish off my list! ____________________ J&G Weir Company, 1932-1943, and Cierva Autogiro Company (Cierva-Weir), 1943-1951 Weir autogyros and helicopters received simple...

Anyone have any more information about dimensions and speed of this 1937 Italian sub hunter of 1300 tons with anti-submarine float plane? Love to know more about the floatplane. 3x1 120mm; 4x1 20mm; 2x2 torpedo tubes; 4 depth charge throwers, and sonar...

I've posted this on another forum but it is better to post many forums to see if anybody know anything about this, I've got hold an extract from a naval forum about possible modernisation plans for the Kawachi class Battleship IJN Settsu which was stripped from her armament after the Washington...

Has anyone seen what the early Saro S.36 with gull wings looked like and what was Saro's reason for changing to the design they finally did? What did the Supermarine 314 look like?

Hi, in the Spec. P27/32E for day bomber aircraft,hawker submitted a proposal for low cantilever wing two seat aircraft project,and maybe a retractable landing gear.

Tatra Aircraft Designations - Závody Ringhoffer-Tatra as* The Ringhoffer-Tatra Works of Prague (Praha-Smíchov) produced a range of aircraft and aero-engine designs in the late 1930s. Both aircraft and engines had 'T' prefixed type designations. Tatra applied a separate 'T' series designations...

The navy type 93 attack-bomber (Mitsubishi 7-shi twin engine carrier base attack bomber) The aircraft carrier "Akagi" went into commission, and the IJN which could make the room the fuselage size which can be used from the carrier directed development of large carrier attack bomber to Mitsubishi...

In 1932, the Imperial Japanese Navy issued a specification for its 7-Shi Land-based Attack. The only known contender (and winner) of that competition was the Hiro G2H1, or Type 95 Land-based Medium Attack, Twin Engine, also commonly known as the "Dai-ko" or "Big Attack." It was a remarkably...

Hi! Kawanishi E13K. http://www.airwar.ru/enc/sww2/e13k.html Auto translation. In 1937, the Imperial Japanese Navy decided to change the old Scout Kawanishi E7K seaplanes (Navy Type 94 Reconnaissance Seaplane) to more advanced aircraft. For this purpose, contracts were signed with companies...

Hi! Aichi E16A1 Zuiun.

The next edition of The Aviation Historian, published on 15th Oct, will include the first of a 3-part article about Folland's monoplane designs for Gloster in the early 1930s. It includes description and details on three flying boats, including this one. http://www.theaviationhistorian.com/