Hi,
The Boeing School of Aeronautics was started by Boeing to compete against the Wright brothers' Wright Flying School and Curtiss Flying School in San Diego, California. Founded in 1929 at Oakland Municipal airport, the school started with a staff of 19 and 100 students. It was licensed by...
Hi! Arsenal VG-30 variants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal_VG-33
"The Arsenal VG-33 was one of a series of fast French light fighter aircraft under development at the start of World War II, but which matured too late to see extensive service in the French Air Force during the Battle of...
Hi! Miles M23.
http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4178.0
"M.23 Fighter Projects
In 1941 a proposal was submitted to the Ministry of Aircraft Production for a high-speed single-seat fighter powered initially by a Rolls-Royce
Merlin engine, then in full production, and later by a...
Couldn't find a thread on this so here goes:
In March 1938 the Air Staff put together a paper that described an ideal bomber, and then a few months later specification B.19/38 was produced which indicated that the bomber would have a strong defensive armament of eight 20mm “shell-firing gun”...
1930s
1938
1941
air ministry
early1940s
heavy bomber
interwar period
late 1930s
medium bomber
pre-world war ii
raf bomber command
royal air force
strategic bomber
united kingdom
world war ii
In volume 8 of “Gente dell’Aria” by Giorgio Evangelisti published in 2012, there is a description of an italian trimotor called Caproni CDR-10, equipped with three Isotta Fraschini “Delta” RC.41. CDR stands for Caproni-De Bernardi-Rossi. The latter was the engineer Lelio Rossi, former Technical...
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...
from Flight Global 31mar2015 -75 years ago:
"The US maritime Commission is calling tenders for the Construction of two luxury liners which are capable of conversion into aircraft carriers. Speed is stated to be 24 knots and they are intended for operation in the Pacific."
I guess this...
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...
1930s
czechoslovakia
early1940s
first czechoslovak republic
interwar period
protectorate of bohemia and moravia
reichsgau sudetenland
second czechoslovak republic
slovak state
third reich
world war ii
Hi,
here is the drawings of the Junkers Ju-288 with Jumo 222 and Jumo 223 engines.
http://www.flugzeug-lorenz.de/fileadmin/user_upload/PDF-Junkersbuch/Junkers_166-171.pdf
anti-ship
bomber b
early1940s
ef 074
junkers flugzeug- und motorenwerke ag
junkers flugzeugwerke a.g.
late 1930s
luftwaffe
medium bomber
nazi germany
pre-world war ii
reichsluftfahrtministerium
schnellbomber
strategic bomber
third reich
world war ii
The development of the Hs 293 is covered, too, in "Die Geschichte der Henschel-Flugzeugwerke AG 1933 - 45" by Horst Materna.
A series of enlarged versions of the Hs 293A was the Hs 293C, for which different guiding systems were proposed. The C-4
was a pre-version of the later Hs 294 glide...
1930s
bayerische flugzeugwerke
early1940s
fighter
fighter bomber
interceptor
jagdbomber
kampfzerstörer
luftwaffe
messerschmitt
messerschmitt ag
nachtjäger
nazi germany
pre-world war ii
reichsluftfahrtministerium
strategic reconnaissance
tactical reconnaissance
world war ii
zerstörer
Here is the Antonov OKA-38. Not only was it an obvious copy of the German Fieseler Fi 156 Storch, it was also Antonov's very first aircraft (until then he had only designed and built gliders and motor gliders).
On top of its OKA- designation, it was also designated as the ShS, and was developed...
daimler-benz ag
early1940s
late 1930s
luftwaffe
nazi germany
pre-world war ii
reich ministry of armaments and war production
reichsluftfahrtministerium
third reich
world war ii
beneš-mráz
czecho-slovak republic
early1940s
first czechoslovak republic
interwar period
late 1930s
pre-world war ii
protectorate of bohemia and moravia
second czechoslovak republic
third reich
world war ii
armeé de l'air
armée de l'air de l'armistice
avions max holste
early1940s
fighter
french third republic
light aviation
racing aircraft
training aircraft
training glider
vichy france
world war ii
Alongside the training and cargo gliders already in service at the outbreak of World War II, an idea that received more attention with the U.S. Army Air Force was the assault glider. Major Lewin B. Barringer, a glider specialist, on the staff of AAF, presented blueprints for such a glider in the...
in end of 1930 the British aircraft manufacturer Hillson
came up with exotic Aircraft concept
to increase take off performance of monoplane, by making them temporal biplane !
the concept was called "Bi-mono"
Noel Pemberton Billing, (inventor, pilot and politician) proposed a wing with own...
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
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