1930s

I was so sure I'd shared a photo of what was then a mysterious aircraft, but couldn't trace the topic despite my efforts. Our friend Tophe probably could have identified right away, since he mentions it in his Forked Ghosts and Catamarans du Ciel works, but he no longer visits this forum...

The Capelis XC12 prototype transport [X12762], built after a patent issued to Greek immigrant Socrates H. Capelis, of El Cerrito, in 1930. It was the sole product of the Capelis Safety Airplane Corp., based at Oakland Airport and El Cerrito, Calif. The aircraft was funded by local Greek...

At the same time as the Design 1047 battlecruiser project was being worked on, the Dutch need for dedicated naval tankers, especially to support operations around the Netherlands East Indies could no longer be ignored, so what was intended to be a eventual two-ship class was (belatedly)...

Greek Large Cruiser proposal from DNC https://www.deviantart.com/tzoli/art/Greek-Large-Cruiser-Design-259030560 This warship is based on the Dido but on an enlarged hull. The DNC or Director of Naval Construction was assigned to create studies for a warship of the Hellenic Navy in 1939. Her...

From A Critical Re-Examination of the Franklin Institute Rotating Wing Aircraft Meeting: Much more on Herrick can be found in the source document: http://vtol.org/8248F800-5DFF-11E2-AB4E0050568D0042 Also see the Herrick Finding Aid: http://ebookbrowse.com/herrick-finding-aid-pdf-d6306568...

Hi everyone! Attached, a little work about an unbuilt italian all-wing of the '30s. Comments welcome. Cheers, Marco

I've found three photographs of this interesting French single seat monoplane of 1935, together with some technical data, but little else. The first two images show the Trébucien Sport in its original form (with an open cockpit and a 30 hp Poinsard engine) - These appeared in an issue of...

It was the little biplane, which could be built around a 660-horsepower Rolls-Royce Goshawk III and based on the experience of the company with bodies flying boats, Petty used a covered working dural fuselage skin with integrated keel. The rest of the aircraft was a standard scheme for Blackburn...

The MBI book on the Heinkel He 162 presents several contenders in the "Volksjäger" competition, including the Blohm & Voss P 211. Attached below are three-view arrangements of the two proposals described above.

IMAGE CREDIT: Tales of Future Past/Future War http://davidszondy.com/future/war/Mile%20Tower.htm Just trying to build the thing would have been a nightmare....

Anyone have a three view drawing of the Blackburn B.29 torpedo bomber? prior posting: http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,4519.msg35771/topicseen.html#msg35771

From wiki but I have seen it in other places as well When originally formed in January 1933, the BIS aimed not only to promote and raise the public profile of astronautics, but also to undertake practical experimentation into rocketry along similar lines to the organisations above. However...

Hi, the engineering Stefan Malinowski was a Polish designer,he interested to modify airplane wings,began with Caudron G-3,as I think Type-I,followed by some modifications we can called it Type-II,the Stemal-III (Type-III) was an experimental airplane based on a fuselage of Nieuport 83 with a...

I still have to finish my detailed Cierva list, but here is a rough version: SPAIN BCD-1* 'El Cangrejo' two-seat biplane (* Barcala, Cierva & Diaz) BCD-2* small racing tractor monoplane (* Barcala, Cierva & Diaz) C-3 (large biplane) BRITAIN C.1 Autogiro N°1 C.2 Autogiro N°2 C.3 Autogiro N°3...

Here it is my personal contribution about the matter. Less known Italian prototype of mid-30's, born as record breaker (and eventually succeded in it) was also utilized as fake bomber during WWII in order to mislead Allies. During 1942 it was seriously considered as potential "America Bomber"...

Hi friends, On 'Ali antiche' (Ancient wings) # 91, house organ of GAVS (Gruppo Amivi Velivoli Storici, member of European Aviation Preservation Council and British Aviation Preservation Council) there is an interesting features with a picture (and some enhancement of others) depicting an unknow...

Hi, as we spoke before about the Avro Heritage site,there is some projects to Avro before 1945 period. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.fildes3/Roe1%20to%20Type%20600 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.fildes3/Type%20602%20to%20862

We may need a thread dedicated to Armstrong Whitworth aircraft. Here is the AW drawing for Armstrong Whitworth B.1/39. Drawing date is 3/6/39. Dwg No. is AW9186? (last number is cut off in this photo) I have also added a favorite detail image, showing the location of twelve large bombs. * I had...

Looking for information about the Swedish SAAB L23 J23 "Swedish Mustang" I came upon this picture of a purported 1939 AFF P7 scout. Does anyone else have better information about this fascinating looking aircraft? Thanks

Hi, the Kharkov Aviavnito-8 was a Project of 1937 for 11-passenger transport aircraft developed from KhAI-3,powered by one M-11 engine,bur never flown.The Aviavnito-9 was fast passenger transport aircraft of 1934 powered by one M-34 engine,but was never built.