early 20th century
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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...- Avimimus
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- civil aviation early 1910s early 20th century french third republic light aviation pre-world war i
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- Forum: Secret Early Aircraft Projects
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Nikola Tesla's aeroplane dreams
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and futurist. He was an important contributor to the use of commercial electricity, and is best known for developing the modern alternating current (AC) electrical supply...- Stargazer
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- early 20th century late 19th century
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- Forum: Secret Early Aircraft Projects
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Russian and Soviet Aircraft Carriers
The Soviets had a number of stilborn aircraft carrier projects from the 1930's all the way through to the 1990's. One of the most studied was Project-72 dating back to WW-II (1943) I think. Other projects include Project-69A, Project-85 and Project 1123 (Moskova concepts) before getting to the...- JAZZ
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- aircraft carrier cold war cold war ii commonwealth of independent states early 20th century imperial russian navy naval aviation nuclear powered vessels post-cold war red fleet russian empire russian federation russian navy soviet navy soviet union ussr v/stol vstol carriers
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- Forum: Secret Naval Projects