civil aviation

  1. Apophenia

    Udet-Flugzeugbau GmbH

    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...
  2. Schneiderman

    Armstrong Whitworth civil aircraft projects 1934

    Prior to finalising the design of the AW27 Ensign Armstrong Whitworth worked on a number of alternative airliner types
  3. Mike Pryce

    Joe Sutter - Father of 747 - RIP

    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.
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    • aerospace industry aviation boeing civil aviation cold war jet age space age united states
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  4. Stargazer

    Joaquin Abreu's AE-5 safety plane

    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...
  5. hesham

    Dring Insect-Plane Prototype of 1934

    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
  6. hesham

    FAA Feederliner of 1944

    Hi, http://archive.aviationweek.com/issue/19441009#!&pid=1 http://archive.aviationweek.com/issue/19441009#!&pid=48
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    • airliner all american aviation civil aviation feeder airlines association united states world war ii
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    • Forum: Secret Early Aircraft Projects
  7. hesham

    Low-Cost Future Light Aircraft of 1930s,1940s & 1950s

    Hi, here is a group of suggested future light aircraft in Popular Science,featured with low-cost and some of them had new ideas...
  8. blackkite

    Japanese Ministry of Communication Civil Transport Aircraft Competition 1925

    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...
  9. Triton

    Shanghai Y-10

    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/
    • Triton
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    • 1970s awacs civil aviation civil aviation agency of china cold war dachang air base early 1980s general administration of civil aviation (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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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  10. hesham

    Early Drawing to De Havilland Canada DHC-2

    Hi, here is the early drawing to De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver with Gipsy Queen engine. Jet & Prop 5/1995
    • hesham
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    • bush aviation canada civil aviation cold war de havilland canada great britain light aviation post-world war ii united states
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  11. Kiltonge

    Aircraft Designs Sheriff 1983

    Originally designed by John Britten as long ago as 1977, construction of one prototype commenced but was abandoned at some stage in late 1982 or early 1983. The comment in Flight in 1980 about labour costs being projected as the major component of the planned £35,000 price explains the...
    • Kiltonge
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    • civil aviation cold war early 1980s great britain late 1970s light aviation socialist republic of romania united kingdom
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  12. hesham

    Columbia Aircraft Corporation 'Uncle Sam' Transoceanic Aircraft Project

    Hi, The Columbia Aircraft Corporation and the designers,Edmund Changiard and Alexander Kartveli created the Uncle Sam,it was a transoceanic transport all metal aircraft,with cantilever wing looks like a blended wing,and powered by three engines,all details are in Les Ailes journal and in...
    • hesham
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    • airliner civil aviation columbia aircraft corporation interwar period late 1920s transport aircraft united states
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    • Forum: Secret Early Aircraft Projects
  13. Stargazer

    The Smith B-2 "Arrowhead" Safety plane: Glenn Curtiss's last project

    Ever since 1911, Glenn H. Curtiss constantly dreamed of an airplane which would become a "family car of the air". His last efforts in this direction was a "flying wing" biplane with a pusher propeller, the configuration of which was very much like that of the Dunne D.8 of 1911. The similarity...
  14. archipeppe

    North American M-3000 (B-70 Civil version)

    Just to complete the B-70 excursus. Ciao Giuseppe
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    • alternate history civil aviation cold war north american aviation supersonic transport united states
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  15. Triton

    Metal Master FLARIS LAR-01

    Source: http://www.eaa.org/news/2013/2013-06-20_paris-air-show.asp http://www.flaris.pl/mobile/general.html http://twinn.pl/?idd=6&rok=2013&page=0&id=755&poz=ml0
    • Triton
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    • 2010s 2020s business jet civil aviation cold war ii light aviation post-cold war republic of poland unmanned aerial vehicle very light jet
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  16. hesham

    Edward Lanier's « Paraplane »... and other unnecessary designs

    Here is an article from LA FANA magazine issue 371,about the Lanier company,I know it had eight experimental aircraft designs,but it is the first time to know PL-9 and PL-10.
    • hesham
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    • civil aviation cold war interwar period lanier aircraft lanier aircraft co. light aviation post-world war ii united states
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  17. Triton

    National Airlines 747 crashed in Afghanistan on Monday; seven dead

    Published on Apr 30, 2013 A civilian cargo aircraft crashed at Bagram Air Field near the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, killing all seven people aboard. The plane came down shortly after take-off and crashed within the boundaries of the US-run airbase, a NATO spokesperson at the base said. The...
    • Triton
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    • 2013 civil aviation crash disaster islamic republic of afghanistan national airlines
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  18. Stargazer

    Navarro Safety Aircraft « Chief » 3-seater saloon monoplane (1931)

    Found this British aircraft of the 1930s and have no idea if it was actually produced, or if the Navarro company did anything else. Here are excerpts from the 1931 brochure... Has anyone heard of Navarro before? Other pics would be greatly appreciated! THE NAVARRO "CHIEF" THREE SEATER SALOON...
  19. Avimimus

    Concours de la Securite en Aeroplanes (pre-WWI 'safe' aircraft competitions)

    This sounds like a fascinating series of competitions (with more than fifty registrants and twenty flying prototypes in some years). I'm quite curious to no more about it. I've found references (and photos) of a few individual contenders - but trying to figure out what the designers were...
  20. Grey Havoc

    CIVIL AVIATION OF USSR (ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF FORMATION) [1973]

    Came across this old NTIS translation of a Soviet pamphlet written by an A. F. Aksenov: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/783051.pdf
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