french third republic

Hello! I'm currently searching the data about this little guy: This is BHT-38 (Bombe Hurel-Turck) radio-controlled glide bomb, designed for French military shortly before World War 2. It was supposed to have a weight about 160 kg. Some examples were tested in 1940, but Fall of the France...

If you read French and you like weird tank projects, the latest issue of GBM Magazine (number 124) has a feature on the various French projects before WWII with multiple sets of tracks. Typically these would be two front tracks and two rear tracks, moving indepedently. The more spectacular are...

Although I was pretty sure this had been discussed on the forum before, I've searched many topics over the past couple of hours but found nothing... So I'm posting it here, hoping it doesn't duplicate anything (and if it does, by all means please show me where it was so the two can be merged)...

Hi! Latécoère 550. You can see some vertical tail stabilizer shape. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lat%C3%A9co%C3%A8re_550 "The Latécoère 550 was a four-engined French seaplane, designed in the early 1930s as a bomber/torpedo bomber. Though initial handling problems were partly resolved, the...

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, here is some old flying barrel airplanes. http://allenfrostlibrary.blogspot.com.eg/2011/04/flying-barrel.html

Spotted while looking for something else entirely - http://airminded.org/2008/01/15/the-colour-out-of-aerospace/ - so ugly it deserves a topic of its own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Kanguroo From reading the description of the ship, the SS Kanguroo (1912) was a dock type heavy lift ship, built initially to transport submarines, but with access to the dock being done by dismantling the bows and rebuilding them after loading. According to the...

I've caught papacavy's "What If" disease, but this is purely for interest rather than literary purposes. As we all know, the Fairey Battle was an airplane which, once tested in combat, did not imbue its crews with any confidence that they would come home from attacking defended targets. Let's...

Hi, As I promised before,we can take here about French Aircraft Specifications,and we start year by year,that 's meaning;we will speak about one year at first to complete its Specifications and contenders,we will leave two to three days to each year...

Hi, the French designer,G. R. Hamel was aviator and pilot,and he designed some heavy civil flying boat projects,his activities started from 1935 up to 1945,he created a 100,300,400 & 500 ton Projects. Here is his 100 ton proposal,it was powered by eight engines,in twin fuselage...

Pierre Levasseur was a French aircraft designer born in 1871. His company was called Sociéte Pierre Levasseur Aéronautique and thay produced aircraft mainly for the French Navy in the inter-war period. As a subsidiary, Levasseur also ran a successful flying school. The chief pilot of his...

Aircraft builder and inventor Antoine Odier co-founded in 1930 with engineer Gustave Bessière (also a respected mathematician and inventor of famous grenade) the Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Aéronautiques (E.S.T.A.) — along with engineer general Louis Jauch. The following year, the two men devised...

SNCAO was a short-lived company originating from the nationalization of Loire-Nieuport and Breguet factories. It had design studies in Issy-les-Moulineaux (former Nieuport), using even numbers (200, 400...), and in Saint-Nazaire (former Loire), using odd numbers. - CAO.200 fighter, 1 built -...

I've found three photographs of this interesting French single seat monoplane of 1935, together with some technical data, but little else. The first two images show the Trébucien Sport in its original form (with an open cockpit and a 30 hp Poinsard engine) - These appeared in an issue of...

IMAGE CREDIT: Tales of Future Past/Future War http://davidszondy.com/future/war/Mile%20Tower.htm Just trying to build the thing would have been a nightmare....

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...

Hi, my dear Tophe answer me about that mystery aircraft,which I spoke about it before in this topic; http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,5933.150.html and it was a real aircraft,designed by Cyril Mecier,and called Helican,and as my dear Tophe said; it was not an...

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

Found this photo on Ebay several months ago.