early 1940s

  1. hesham

    Boeing School of Aeronautics

    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...
  2. blackkite

    Arsenal VG-30 variants

    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...
  3. blackkite

    Miles M23

    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...
  4. GTX

    Bristol 159

    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”...
  5. C

    Caproni CDR-10

    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...
  6. Johnbr

    Bell YFM-1 Airacuda

    http://axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?13408 Great site on the plane.
  7. Tzoli

    IJN Settsu Modernisation Proposals

    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...
  8. K

    US 1940 Liner - Carriers

    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...
  9. Apophenia

    Tatra Aircraft Designations

    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...
  10. hesham

    Junkers Ju 288 Projects & Prototypes

    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
  11. Jemiba

    Henschel Hs 293 developments and projects

    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...
  12. hesham

    Messerschmitt Bf 110/161 Projects & Prototypes

    Hi, here is a comparison between BF.161-V2 and BF.162-V2.
  13. Stargazer

    Antonov's OKA-38 "Aist" - Soviet copy of the Fieseler Storch

    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...
  14. Jemiba

    Daimler Benz Aircraft Engines 1935 - 1945

    From "Der Flieger", August 1962, maybe interesting for one or two, as one-offs and projects are mentioned, too.
  15. hesham

    Benes-Mraz Prototypes and Projects

    Hi, has anyone a more info or drawing about Benes-Mraz Be.352 light aircraft project of 1939 ?. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bene%C5%A1-Mr%C3%A1z
  16. hesham

    Max Holste H-20 P.1 twin boom glider

    Hi, here is the Max Holste H-20 P.1 twin boom shoulder high wing glider, I think one was built. http://www.retroplane.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=54470
  17. J

    Yokosuka (Kugisho) MXY6 motor glider (proof-of-concept for Kyushu Shinden)

    Hi! :)
  18. Stargazer

    Christopher AG-1 and Timm AG-2 assault gliders

    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...
  19. Michel Van

    F. Hills and Son Bi-mono

    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...
  20. hesham

    Avro Pre-1945 Projects

    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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