To start this thread off, a 2020 Top Gear story on the development of the Royal Enfield Model RE airborne forces motorcycle, better known as the Flying Flea:
https://www.topgear.com/car-news/british/small-motorbike-helped-win-ww2
(You will notice a few, mostly minor errors in the article.)
airborne forces
birmingham small arms company
british army
cold war
enfield of india
great britain
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the enfield cycle company limited
world war i
world war ii
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british broadcasting corporation
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british empire
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I've seen a few references to a Supermarine early World War II project called the Type 312. From what I've read, it was a derivative of the Spitfire but with standard cannon armament and a ventral radiator instead of the Spitfire's underwing radiators. Does any photos or plans or other details...
STEALTH WARPLANES OF THE LUFTWAFFE
Prototypes and projects 1936-1946
War Secrets-Volume Four
Contents
The race for invisibility
Transparent wings
Zebra effect
Vorticist School
Lozenge-Tarnung
Akinetopsia
Yehudi
Infra-red
Turbinlite
Spanner Anlage I
Spanner Anlage II
Spanner...
http://www3.plala.or.jp/takihome/14-27.html
I can't find other sources referencing this, if it's not real what's the picture of?
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%9D%E5%85%AD%E5%BC%8F%E9%87%8D%E8%BF%AB%E6%92%83%E7%A0%B2
https://www.nevingtonwarmuseum.com/united-kingdom---morris-commercial-roadless-half-track-experimental-tractor.html
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/yafh9h/early_mechanisation_of_the_royal_artillery_an/
According to the Imperial War Museum, via Wikimedia Commons, the image...
French Night Fighters
Between February 1918 and July 1922 the French Aéronautique Militaire used the Caudron R.XI heavy escort fighters from the Escadrille C 46, in joint operations with the Breguet XIV night bombers of the 3ême regiment de bombardement.
In 1924 a night fighter unit was...
This thread was created to discuss the projects, plans, facilities, operations, and historical implications of the German interwar flight test center and military pilot training school that was developed in secrecy between the Germans and the Russians. This airfield played an important role in...
Hi,
I'm looking for any volume of the "Der Flug" magazine published in Vienna in 1920 by Österreichische Flugtechnische Verein (Austrian Aeronautical Association) - per WorldCat this magazine doesn't exist, but I have found an article from it (Das Problem der Weltraumfahrt from Dezember 1920...
This is the last of the post-Washington Treaty designed carriers covered in the 1st volume of USN 'Springstyle' design books. It's a small 10,000 ton Aircraft Carrier that looks like a 'regularized' version of the USS Langley (CV-1) conversion. Of note is that the armament is purely anti-surface...
As we all may know, the French were developing land-based heavy AA guns in the 1920s and 30s to counter the next-generation bombers of that time. They designed and tinkered a lot with 75 mm guns, then decided to up-gun it to 90 mm caliber. The 90 mm gun, or known as the Canon de 90 mm Modèle...
The history of the bullpup in France began long before the famous FAMAS which certainly marked its time but it was born under the constraint of the international conflicts. as assault rifle France had its misadventure during years from 1945 to 1970 with various programs and much expenditure...
Howdy folks! I recently came across these two designs/blueprints of the D-class panzerschiffe (more like battlecruisers at this point), which were originally named Ersatz Elsass and Ersatz Hessen that eventually became battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau from my understanding of their...
I didn't see any topics featuring or referencing this interesting airship (including the compelling figures involved in its development and construction), but I came across a some newsreel footage of it worthy of posting and created this topic for reference and as a potentially clearinghouse for...
Or, in other words, lets give to the FAA some attractive hardware that gets the job done and then some. Whether something later to be made earlier, or something that never flew, or a substantial mod to an existing design. Limitations of availability of engines, armament and electronics remain -...
Since the end of the First World War, bold attempts were made in the Soviet Union in the field of rockets and various types of weapons, although timid, but existing and somewhat significant for the hard period that the Union was going through at that time, sometimes typically handcrafted and...
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