I've recently found this pretty interesting Japanese Project at the Hiraga Archive.
It looks like a hybrid cruiser-carrier warship from 1920's era. There seems to be a few variants mostly by how large the hanger should be and where to locate the conning tower and AA guns.
Apart from the unique...
1920s
aircraft carrier
cruiser
empire of japan
imperial japanese navy
imperial japanese navy air service
imperial japanese navy technical department
interwarperiod
I've found calculations for a 10.000ton cruiser in the Hiraga archives. What is unique about this vessel that it would carry 4 triple 20cm heavily armoured gun turrets, though calculations shows quad turrets were considered as well, but it is unknown if it would carry the same number of such...
Anyone have any more information about dimensions and speed of this 1937 Italian sub hunter of 1300 tons with anti-submarine float plane? Love to know more about the floatplane. 3x1 120mm; 4x1 20mm; 2x2 torpedo tubes; 4 depth charge throwers, and sonar...
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here is Guidoni early aircraft concepts,and his his activities in aviation about developed
a floats to anther airplanes,in early period.
http://www.alieuomini.it/pagine/dettaglio/uomini,5/ricordi_di_idroaviazione,21.html
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...
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during 1924,Randolph F. Hall designed a three different monoplane aircraft patents for the Thomas-Morse company.
http://scripophily.net/airdesbyranh.html
Anyone know something about japanese airships until 1945 ?
I have found this article on j-aircraft :
http://www.j-aircraft.com/research/jas_jottings/japanese_airships.htm
The Siddeley-Deasy Sinaia, also known as the Armstrong Whitworth Sinaia and Siddeley Deasy Type 103 was a twin-engine biplane day bomber with gunners in rearwards extensions of the engine nacelles.
Four examples were initially ordered by the Air Ministry in 1917 but only one (serial J6858)...
DB 608
Work on this engine were launched in 1938. DB-608 is a further development of the engine DB-601. When the working volume of 36.6 liters the engine developed takeoff power 1210 kW (1650 hp.) At 2800 rev / min. The estimated altitude is equal to 5200 meters. Dry weight was 745 pounds...
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in the Spec. P27/32E for day bomber aircraft,hawker submitted a proposal for low cantilever
wing two seat aircraft project,and maybe a retractable landing gear.
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
early 1940s
first czechoslovak republic
interwarperiod
protectorate of bohemia and moravia
reichsgau sudetenland
second czechoslovak republic
slovak state
third reich
world war ii
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...
allies
alternate history
anti-tank
armeé de l'air
battle of france
british expeditionary force
close air support
dive bomber
fighter bomber
fleet air arm
french third republic
interwarperiod
l'aéronautique navale
light bomber
marine nationale
operation david
royal air force
royal navy
united kingdom
world war ii
The navy type 93 attack-bomber (Mitsubishi 7-shi twin engine carrier base attack bomber)
The aircraft carrier "Akagi" went into commission, and the IJN which could make the room the fuselage size which can be used from the carrier directed development of large carrier attack bomber to Mitsubishi...
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...
In 1932, the Imperial Japanese Navy issued a specification for its 7-Shi Land-based Attack. The only known contender (and winner) of that competition was the Hiro G2H1, or Type 95 Land-based Medium Attack, Twin Engine, also commonly known as the "Dai-ko" or "Big Attack." It was a remarkably...
Hi! Kawanishi E13K.
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/sww2/e13k.html
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In 1937, the Imperial Japanese Navy decided to change the old Scout Kawanishi E7K seaplanes (Navy Type 94 Reconnaissance Seaplane) to more advanced aircraft. For this purpose, contracts were signed with companies...
The next edition of The Aviation Historian, published on 15th Oct, will include the first of a 3-part article about Folland's monoplane designs for Gloster in the early 1930s. It includes description and details on three flying boats, including this one.
http://www.theaviationhistorian.com/
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