interwar period

  1. Schneiderman

    British Super-/Turbocharger Development

    There is no question that the UK had the necessary metallurgy to construct turbines, Whittle, Hooker and their peers would confirm that. Rolls-Royce and Bristol, along with BTH and research at RAE etc. had been developing superchargers progressively since the mid 1920s and had acheived a high...
  2. 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”...
  3. C

    Japanese 'dream project' battleships and never built battleships

    Hello people! I'm looking for information about the following projects, some pure paper projects, other more serious proposals never come to fruition: -Kaneda battleship: an alleged 1914 study by Commander Kaneda about an half million ton battleship armed with 100 41cm guns in 50 double turrets...
  4. Hood

    Airminded Airpower and British Society 1908-41

    I stumbled across this interesting blog by an Australian academic Dr Brett Holman who has researched the cultural impacts of the fear of bombing on British society during the early 20th century. There are a lot of other interesting British and Australian related aviation entries too...
  5. hesham

    Parnall Heavy Bomber Project of 1938 ?

    Hi, in 1938,Parnall designed a twin boom heavy bomber Project,with no supporting tailplane or structure between the booms,how we can find a drawing or a more Info about it ?.
  6. S

    Saro/Blackburn Segrave

    A handful of examples of the Saro/Blackburn Segrave twin-engined light touring monoplane were built in the early 1930s, mainly by Blackburn at Brough. Some were license-built by Piaggio as the P.12, but I don't know how many (Wikipedia suggests just two). The last Blackburn-built Segrave was...
  7. P

    Italian Submarines 1895-Present

    What can the dozens of experts tell me about Italian designed and built submarines?
  8. cluttonfred

    USAAS (1918-1926) monoplanes?

    I am trying to identify which monoplane aircraft were flown by the U.S. Army Air Service during its brief 1918-1926 existence in a largely biplane era. So far, I have come up with two: --Fokker T-2 transport/ambulance --Verville-Sperry R-3 racer Can anyone think of any more? Cheers...
  9. jzichek

    Streamlined Dreams: Ten Amazing Unbuilt Automobile Designs, 1916-1939

    New book available which may be of tangential interest to SPF members. Automotive history is filled with concepts which never left the drawing board, with early streamlined projects being among the more fascinating. This book presents ten of the most striking and unusual aerodynamic automobile...
  10. Sherman Tank

    1930s Italian carrier aircraft projects

    Enrico Cernuschi and Vincent O'Hara's article on Italian aircraft carrier design ("Search for a Flattop: The Italian Navy and the Aircraft Carrier 1907-2007") in Warship 2007 has a passing mention of two mid-1930s proposals for carrier-based aircraft: the Caproni Ca.165 biplane fighter and a...
  11. Apophenia

    Udet-Flugzeugbau GmbH

    Udet-Flugzeugbau GmbH, München-Ramersdorf Famous WWI fighter ace and stunt pilot Ernst Udet lent his name to this company but the aircraft were designed by Ing. Hans Henry Herrmann. Udet left the firm in the spring 1925. In 1926 financially-strapped Udet-Flugzeugbau was converted into a into a...
  12. hesham

    Old Flying Barrel Airplanes

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

    other less known japanese aircraft projects

    On wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_military_aircraft_designation_systems we have Nakajima Ki-13 ( attacker airplane) , Mitsubishi Ki-14 (recon. coop.) , Kawasaki Ki-22 , Tachikawa Ki-29 , Mitsubishi Ki-42 ( Heavy Bomber ) , Nakajima Ki-37 ( fighter) , Mitsubishi...
  14. hesham

    Alfredo Varni Gyroplane Project

    Hi, here is a strange gyroplane Project,designed by Alfredo Varni. http://www.avia-it.com/act/biblioteca/periodici/PDF%20Riviste/Ala%20d'Italia/L'ALA%20D'ITALIA%201930%2005.pdf http://www.avia-it.com/act/biblioteca/periodici/PDF%20Riviste/Ala%20d'Italia/L'ALA%20D'ITALIA%201930%2006.pdf
  15. airman

    Japanese Focke Wulf fw 200

    The history about it i can see it : http://www.go2war2.nl/artikel/4504/Focke-Wulf-Fw-200-Condor.htm?page=2 Anyone have more about it ?
  16. Schneiderman

    Armstrong Whitworth civil aircraft projects 1934

    Prior to finalising the design of the AW27 Ensign Armstrong Whitworth worked on a number of alternative airliner types
  17. hesham

    Blackburn Triplanes

    Hi, here is a Blackburn unknown Triplane Fighter Project of 1917,featured with a propeller mounted at the mid-fuselage,and powered by one 110 hp engine,what was this ?. http://www.avia-it.com/act/biblioteca/periodici/PDF%20Riviste/Aeronautica/L'Aeronautica%201930%2002.pdf
  18. blackkite

    Breda aircraft

    Hi! Breda Ba.27 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breda_Ba.27 "The Ba.27 was a low-wing braced monoplane with fixed tailwheel undercarriage. As originally designed, the Ba.27 had a fuselage of steel tube construction, skinned with light corrugated alloy metal, and wooden wings and tailplane...
  19. Stargazer

    Argentine F.M.A./DINFIA/FAdeA designations

    We have topics on several of the aircraft in this list, and attempts at identifying missing numbers in places, but no complete list in one single topic, so I thought this could be a good idea. Since it's the "Designations" section here, I'm only giving the basic info for identification purposes...
  20. Stargazer

    Joaquin Abreu's AE-5 safety plane

    Joaquin Silveira Abreu was a San Francisco engineer who designed in 1926 a unique safety biplane design in which the engine and lower fuselage could be dropped by the pilot in case of trouble to glide to safety. The following year he designed an airship using aircraft as propelling units, which...
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