light aviation

  1. Grey Havoc

    Ridge Hill Airfield

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy83x20l3nzo
  2. hesham

    Dutch Light Aircraft,Sailplanes & Helicopters Prototypes & Projects

    Hi, Van den Berg Staalvogel = Hans van den Berg uit Baambrugge heeft vijf(!) maal een vliegtuig gebouwd, vanaf 1962 bouwde hij drie toestellen die echter geen van alle gevlogen hebben. Zijn vierde project (Staalvogel 4) was in 1968 klaar en kwam op 5 juli van dat jaar inderdaad van de grond...
  3. Schneiderman

    Light aircraft in Egypt 1933

    Here's one to identify, photo taken at Almaza, Cairo, in November 1933. Hesham, this is your territory, can you provide a name?
  4. persil

    Little-known Chinese helicopter projects

    Good day my friends. I am creating this thread in order to fill a little gap I am facing recently. There is a very nice thread on little-known American helicopters, where people share their findings on various designs. For roughly 10 to 15 years, maybe 20, the situation in China regarding...
  5. J

    CLW Curlew

    SPF contributor Motocar posted to his website this cutaway of the CLW Curlew. The post referenced his source, an archival version of the German magazine Flugsport for 1937. I couldn't find a thread for CLW here at SPF, so I started this one as this airplane contains some structural details...
  6. shedofdread

    RAeS/Coventry University ‘Light aircraft design Teach-ins’

    I don't know if this is of interest but just putting it here in case it is...
  7. A

    UZGA LMS-901 Baikal

    https://www.aerotime.aero/26600-bumpy-story-of-baikal-newest-russian-bush-plane?v=amp https://travelandaviation.com/baikal-completes-airframe-of-utility-aircraft-to-replace-an-2-news/amp/ This is the long awaited replacement to the legendary An-2. The previous modern biplane version was...
  8. Grey Havoc

    Blackburn Sidecar

    View: https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdWings/comments/ll3dyh/blackburn_were_not_known_for_designing_pretty/ https://www.baesystems.com/en/heritage/blackburn-sidecar
  9. hesham

    Czech Light Aircraft Prototypes & Projects

    From L+K 1/1969, here is a single seat low-wing light aircraft Project,designed by Mr. Vlada Verner from Czech (as I think) and it was called W-1,it was mentioned in JAWA 1972/1973,but I am not sure if it was a Project or not.
  10. 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...
  11. 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...
  12. hesham

    Dring Insect-Plane Prototype of 1934

    Hi, here is a radical insect looks like airplane,designed by Mr. T. A. Dring of Poulner, Hampshire at the age 78,constructed and flight in 1934. http://xplanes.tumblr.com/post/283601952/an-insect-plane-which-is-really-a-flying
  13. hesham

    Early Drawing to De Havilland Canada DHC-2

    Hi, here is the early drawing to De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver with Gipsy Queen engine. Jet & Prop 5/1995
  14. Kiltonge

    Aircraft Designs Sheriff 1983

    Originally designed by John Britten as long ago as 1977, construction of one prototype commenced but was abandoned at some stage in late 1982 or early 1983. The comment in Flight in 1980 about labour costs being projected as the major component of the planned £35,000 price explains the...
  15. Stargazer

    The Smith B-2 "Arrowhead" Safety plane: Glenn Curtiss's last project

    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...
  16. Triton

    Metal Master FLARIS LAR-01

    Source: http://www.eaa.org/news/2013/2013-06-20_paris-air-show.asp http://www.flaris.pl/mobile/general.html http://twinn.pl/?idd=6&rok=2013&page=0&id=755&poz=ml0
  17. hesham

    Edward Lanier's « Paraplane »... and other unnecessary designs

    Here is an article from LA FANA magazine issue 371,about the Lanier company,I know it had eight experimental aircraft designs,but it is the first time to know PL-9 and PL-10.
  18. Stargazer

    All those weird and wonderful postwar homebuilt U.S. one-offs...

    No other country has seen as many aircraft designs as the United States. Apart from those emanating from the big industrial companies, many of these have largely fallen into oblivion... Sometimes they appear in a corner of an old magazine and we think "Wow! Never heard about THAT ONE!", and...
  19. Stargazer

    Navarro Safety Aircraft « Chief » 3-seater saloon monoplane (1931)

    Found this British aircraft of the 1930s and have no idea if it was actually produced, or if the Navarro company did anything else. Here are excerpts from the 1931 brochure... Has anyone heard of Navarro before? Other pics would be greatly appreciated! THE NAVARRO "CHIEF" THREE SEATER SALOON...
  20. Avimimus

    Concours de la Securite en Aeroplanes (pre-WWI 'safe' aircraft competitions)

    This sounds like a fascinating series of competitions (with more than fifty registrants and twenty flying prototypes in some years). I'm quite curious to no more about it. I've found references (and photos) of a few individual contenders - but trying to figure out what the designers were...
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