https://www.aerotime.aero/26600-bumpy-story-of-baikal-newest-russian-bush-plane?v=amp
https://travelandaviation.com/baikal-completes-airframe-of-utility-aircraft-to-replace-an-2-news/amp/
This is the long awaited replacement to the legendary An-2. The previous modern biplane version was...
Created this thread to bring together news reports on the impact of the COVID crisis on different specific civil aircraft (likely many early retirements and exits for a number of types).
Back in the 1960s Boeing was telling everyone that its Supersonic 2707 transport would be the must-have airliner for the 1970s.
Some 26 airlines took out options on the plane.
There is a comprehensive thread about the US designs on this site, but no illustrations of the artwork Boeing must have...
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civilaviation
cold war
éire
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republic of ireland
space age
sst
supersonic
supersonic transport
western europe
The Air-Metal Flugzeug und Entwicklungs GmbH has worked in Erding since 1964 as an aircraft repair yard for touring aircraft and service work. In addition to this main activity, several projects were created. Bankruptcy proceedings in 1977 meant the end of the small business.
The projects...
One UK aircraft has been around me more than any other, and no, its not my beloved TSR2, AVS or Boeing SST. It is the VC 10
My Dad made me the Airfix kit. Until recently and from the age of 9 I could watch these elegant planes in their smart RAF colours doing circuits in and out of Brize...
airliner
british commonwealth
british empire
british overseas airways corporation
civilaviation
cold war
great britain
royal air force
vickers-armstrongs
vickers-armstrongs limited
From L+K 1/1969,
here is a single seat low-wing light aircraft Project,designed by Mr. Vlada Verner from Czech (as I think) and
it was called W-1,it was mentioned in JAWA 1972/1973,but I am not sure if it was a Project or not.
In the very first Thnunderbirds Episode "Trapped in the Sky" the London Airport building features the letters BAOC (based on the British Airways predecessor BOAC) as a rival to the Air Terrainean company who flew the Fireflash.
As a BOAC fan I always hoped to see the BAOC version. So 50 years...
airliner
alternate history
baoc
british overseas airways corporation
civilaviation
great britain
model
science fiction
sst
supersonic
supersonic transport
tv series
what-if
Dornier Seastar all-composite amphibian evolved from 1984, more then 3 decades.
For certain years, Dornier teamed Chinese company, Wuxi for further developement.
Official site.
Seastar initially offered as aircraft, that could be used in many application - from passenger and VIP-transportation...
1980s
2010s
2020s
canada
civilaviation
claudius dornier seastar gmbh
cold war
cold war ii
dornier
dornier seawings
federal republic of germany
hydroplane
maritime patrol aircraft
people's republic of china
post-cold war
seaplane
west germany
The Thunderbirds series from the 1960s featured in its first episode a wonderful airliner called Fireflash,
which was totally improbable but looked very cool.
In the series it crops up in a few episodes in the livery of "Air Terrainean", a sort of mixture of Pan American and BOAC.
However, in...
1960s
airliner
alternate history
civilaviation
cold war
great britain
jet age
nuclear powered aircraft
popular culture
science fiction
space age
supersonic
supersonic transport
tv series
In the late 60s the Germans were looking
for a replacement for its ground attack
Fiat G 91s.
As an offset against costs for BAOR and
RAF Germany the UK succeeds in selling
Harriers to the Bundeswehr and getting
Dornier involved in its production and
a joint trainer which becomes the Hawk.
HS and...
alternate history
baor
bundeswehr
civilaviation
close air support
cold war
dornier
dornier flugzeugwerke
federal republic of germany
great britain
hawker siddeley aviation ltd
luftwaffe
north atlantic treaty organisation
nuclear battlefield
raf germany
v/stol aircraft
vtol
west germany
Last night I was on board an 8 year old British Airways A320
from Berlin to London. For a half an hour after take off the route map screen showed us zigzagging round Berlin until
the pilot told us that because some hydraulic equipment had failed he was returning to Berlin. We landed and the...
Udet-Flugzeugbau GmbH, München-Ramersdorf
Famous WWI fighter ace and stunt pilot Ernst Udet lent his name to this company but the aircraft were designed by Ing. Hans Henry Herrmann. Udet left the firm in the spring 1925. In 1926 financially-strapped Udet-Flugzeugbau was converted into a into a...
Sad news:
http://aviationweek.com/commercial-aviation/joe-sutter-father-747-dies-95
I was just watching him in this BBC documentary a few days ago:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03wtnfv/jumbo-the-plane-that-changed-the-world
A great loss - the designer of an iconic aircraft.
Joaquin Silveira Abreu was a San Francisco engineer who designed in 1926 a unique safety biplane design in which the engine and lower fuselage could be dropped by the pilot in case of trouble to glide to safety.
The following year he designed an airship using aircraft as propelling units, which...
Hi,
here is a radical insect looks like airplane,designed by Mr. T. A. Dring of Poulner, Hampshire
at the age 78,constructed and flight in 1934.
http://xplanes.tumblr.com/post/283601952/an-insect-plane-which-is-really-a-flying
Hi! Aichi AB-1(Aichi Biplane-1)civil transport and her competitor Mitsubishi MC-1, Nakajima N-36.
The Ministry of Communications Civil Aviation Bureau invited the prize design of the pure domestic transport plane which will convey cargo with a passenger in 1925.
This was a transport plane...
http://youtu.be/-idcnKx3PQo
http://youtu.be/MGQ-7TtM4Kg
The Shanghai Y-10, the Chinese attempt to copy the Boeing 707.
Source:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/23269353@N00/5288276795/in/photostream/
1970s
awacs
civilaviationcivilaviation agency of china
cold war
dachang air base
early 1980s
general administration of civilaviation (prc)
ministry of transport (prc)
people's liberation army air force
people's republic of china
shanghai aircraft manufacturing factory
shanghai aircraft research institute
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