interwar period

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/

Following the sad passing of the author Manfred Griehl last November, I doubt his pending volume on Fieseler (Fieseler: Flugzeuge seit 1933 - Typenkompass) will ever see publication. This is a great shame as Gerhard Fieseler was a World War I fighter ace who was also a stunt, aerobatic and test...

In a Italian magazine of 1939,"Panorama",i have read an article about Americans flying boats. Was said that a method at the study for land takeoff of flying boats ( in runways near sea aerodromes) was put the flying boat piggy-back on a sort of not flying launch vehicle for reach speed for...

hello, I'm searching Northrop BETA 3 plans and pictures to scratch an 1/48 scale model...

From Jet & Prop 04-05-06/2001, we can talk here about Germany early canard aircraft and projects,the Aachener Segelflugzeugbau GmhH company with its designer Prof. Klemperer created many aircraft,one of them was a flying boat canard project,followed by FVA-3 single seat canard light aircraft...

After Robert Gross bought out the ailing Lockheed Aircraft Company, there was no place found for Allan and Malcolm Lockheed in the new organisation. In 1930 Lockheed Brothers Aircraft Corporation (later the Allan Lockheed Corporation - became Alcor in 1937) was established. Malcolm helped...

Hi, the Lithuanian designer Dobkeviciaus designed Type I as a single seat touring aircraft, and developed it into Type III,as a single seat fighter; http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6556089d/f2.image http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,6943.msg59364.html#msg59364

I was so sure I'd shared a photo of what was then a mysterious aircraft, but couldn't trace the topic despite my efforts. Our friend Tophe probably could have identified right away, since he mentions it in his Forked Ghosts and Catamarans du Ciel works, but he no longer visits this forum...

Ever since 1911, Glenn H. Curtiss constantly dreamed of an airplane which would become a "family car of the air". His last efforts in this direction was a "flying wing" biplane with a pusher propeller, the configuration of which was very much like that of the Dunne D.8 of 1911. The similarity...

The Capelis XC12 prototype transport [X12762], built after a patent issued to Greek immigrant Socrates H. Capelis, of El Cerrito, in 1930. It was the sole product of the Capelis Safety Airplane Corp., based at Oakland Airport and El Cerrito, Calif. The aircraft was funded by local Greek...

The US Navy - BuAer Specification SD 112.14 ,soliciting bids for a twin engined VF -Naval Fighter- in 1938. This spec. produced the Grumman Model G-34 (XF5F-1) Brewster ,Seversky and Lockheed were also contending. Bids were asked from 13 companies. Is there any of the Naval Aviation specialist...

Excerpt from an official U. S. Army Air Corps Engineering Division document entitled Army Appropriation Bill, 1922, as reproduced in Aviation and Aircraft Journal Vol. 10, 1921 (bold type and color added): The functions of the Engineering Division, Air Service, can be outlined as follows: To...

Born in 1893 in Absberg / Germany, Reinhold Tiling had begun to work on rockets during 1924. For a safe landing of his rockets, he developed the two techniques: The "Kreiselflugzeug" (Gyroplane), where the tailplane switched to a kind of rotor after burn-out of the rocket engine, decelerating...

Project G - 'Submergible motorboat', originally intended for coastal defence (a 'fighter' concept, armed with two 450 mm torpedoes), prototypes later modified for special operations with the 10th Light Flotilla [Decima Flottiglia MAS]. First batch (prototypes) CA 1 - Scuttled at La Spezia...

Going o/t but on a tangent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=E5dB_9dW2SQ

Aermacchi was an Italian aircraft manufacturer. Established originally in 1912 as the Nieuport-Macchi S.A. by Giulio Macchi at Varese in north-western Lombardy. It was later known as Aeronautica Macchi S.p.A. During the firms formative years Macchi worked closely with engine designer Vittorio...

Here is the Wilford Heli-Gyro, described as "a streamlined version of the Focke Helicopter" (Fw 61)... to which Wilford answered that “[w]e are not trying to copy Mr. Focke’s word in any way, but I am just interested in seeing that rigid feathering blades are used in the helicopter field as well...

From A Critical Re-Examination of the Franklin Institute Rotating Wing Aircraft Meeting: Much more on Herrick can be found in the source document: http://vtol.org/8248F800-5DFF-11E2-AB4E0050568D0042 Also see the Herrick Finding Aid: http://ebookbrowse.com/herrick-finding-aid-pdf-d6306568...

From the page 80 of the book: Cockatoo Island: Sydney's Historic Dockyard: http://books.google.hu/books?id=1ulc79wlY54C&printsec=frontcover&hl=hu#v=onepage&q=cruiser&f=false These cruisers are designed by Cockatoo Island naval Dockyards in 1924 and Vickers in 1929. They resemble a...

Hi everyone! Attached, a little work about an unbuilt italian all-wing of the '30s. Comments welcome. Cheers, Marco