late 1920s

Hi I don't know if anyone will be able to help me, but I live in hope. For Specification F.29/27, the Westland COW Gun Fighter and the Vickers Type 161 are well documented in both text and pictorial form. However the third entrant to the specification, the Bristol Type 112 seems to be bereft of...

This book is written by the german Winkler-Researcher Reinhard Sagner. He focuses on the technical asprects of Winkler´s work in and for the Junkers Company in Dessau in the time between 1929 and 1939, when Winkler left Junkers for the Luftfahrtforschungsanstalt Braunschweig. The author has used...

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...

I learned about these interested drawings from another forum, and there are links to the sources given by other members below. But a companion of mine believes that these are "fake drawings" made using some Australia's cruiser plan drawings and Photoshop. I feel distressed. So are these...

Hi I looked through the listings, and after an exhaustive search found I could not find any discussions about the Curtiss-Bleecker Helicopter, although it did get a mention in one or two other types discussions. Whilst looking at...

who can help me with sources who give more information/details of the CC-2000 and CC-3000. concerning these two I found only the information that is has to do with the total power of the engines. please real sources and not he told that he told!!!!! Thanks

Is there a list of all the factories who planned to get to this competition? I can only find some details of the aeroplanes who has been there. Are there any details/materials etc. Concerning the aeroplane projects who not were completed/buil for this competition?

Hai On the Wikipedia site of Pallavicino is mentioned that he worked for some time for Breda. There are two projects mentioned of which I have, until now, nothing found. The projects are the Ba 18 and Ba 35. Concerning the Ba 18 is mentioned on the Breda designations forum that it was possible a...

Hi, The Boeing School of Aeronautics was started by Boeing to compete against the Wright brothers' Wright Flying School and Curtiss Flying School in San Diego, California. Founded in 1929 at Oakland Municipal airport, the school started with a staff of 19 and 100 students. It was licensed by...

William E. Metzger, along with Henry G. McCarroll formed the Cadillac Aircraft Corporation in Northville, MI, in February 1929. The first design was the 1929 Duoplane, christened the Voyager (seen below). The second aircraft of 1930 was the MAC-1. The production facility was the former Stinson...

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...

Hi, The Columbia Aircraft Corporation and the designers,Edmund Changiard and Alexander Kartveli created the Uncle Sam,it was a transoceanic transport all metal aircraft,with cantilever wing looks like a blended wing,and powered by three engines,all details are in Les Ailes journal and in...

I still have to finish my detailed Cierva list, but here is a rough version: SPAIN BCD-1* 'El Cangrejo' two-seat biplane (* Barcala, Cierva & Diaz) BCD-2* small racing tractor monoplane (* Barcala, Cierva & Diaz) C-3 (large biplane) BRITAIN C.1 Autogiro N°1 C.2 Autogiro N°2 C.3 Autogiro N°3...

Hi, Super Transport 1928 = 25pCswB; four 410hp P&W Wasp; span: 85'0" v (est): 152/120/x range (est): 800. Ambitious design project which never made it to production, but is included because of its design magnificence for the time. The double-deck fuselage had two lounges, a buffet table, 6'3"...

Hi, as we spoke before about the Avro Heritage site,there is some projects to Avro before 1945 period. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.fildes3/Roe1%20to%20Type%20600 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.fildes3/Type%20602%20to%20862

Hi, the Blackburn Nile was three engined recce bomber flying boat,it was designed for R5/27 Spec.,but never completed. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1929/1929-1%20-%200125.html

Hi, here is a two Frank Radcliffe mail plane projects from Flightglobal, one with high wing and the other with low wing. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1930/untitled0%20-%201461.html?search=frank+radcliffe+aircraft...

Hi, the well known Cierva/Weir W series of helicopters and autogyros, the W.7 from Flightglobal and Cierva project. http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1946/1946%20-%201154.html?search=helicopter%20project%201946

I found this Norman Bel Geddes and Otto Koller behemoth from 1920's here: http://home.att.net/~dannysoar/BelGeddes.htm

VL. (Finnish) pre.1945 projects and prototypes