post-world war ii

I guess the search engine really is my friend. So say we all. http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/aviation/howard-hughes-d-2-a-9232.html Moonbat

Hi, I know that my dear Orionblamblam displayed a drawing to it before, but here is Boeing Model-448 in wind tunnel. Source: Charles D Bright The Jet Makers: The Aerospace Industry from 1945 to 1972 http://www.generalatomic.com/jetmakers/chapter4.html

I am looking for a picture of the Douglas CG-19 glider project that was initiated in 1946. Anybody can help? Jso Heyman

XA-44, later became XB-53 From http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil

Hi all, you know Yvan Makhonine? This french inventor build the Mak.10 (1931) and the Mak.123 (1947) with variable wing geometry. Anybody knows other projects of this man? I need also a short history, but not in french... Servus Maveric

Hi, the General Aircraft Ltd developed the GAL-56 tailless glider,and here is a variant from it. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1948/1948%20-%200018.html?search=tailless+glider

...thanks again Stingray, great work... Do you have a complete designation list from the Charkov Institute, I believe the ChAI.35 was the last? If you can please post a pic or drawing from the ChAI.18 ;D Thanks a lot Servus Maveric

Hi, here is an artist picture for Cunliffe-Owen O.A.2,which could carry 18-passengers and had an estimated speed of 225 mph. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1940/1940%20-%200100.html

From The Royal Air Force Review October 1951 Vol 7 No 1.

I've always liked this story, which has a few design details in it about the (fictitious) two-stage rocket A20. I've always imagined it as being rather like an R.A.Smith-style "son of V2" with a retractable wing upper stage. Fired up by "The Spaceship Handbook", I'd like to try drawing this...

Hi, in Flightglobal,they said that the Nord N.2500 was research aircraft, I am confuse and I don't know this aircraft,any explaination please. http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1949/1949%20-%200868.html

Convair XP-92 first configuration

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

Hi, the Piaggio P.140 was four engined transport aircraft project and powered by four Hercules 761 engines,a retractable loading ramp was built in to the lower rear portion of the deep fuselage. http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1949/1949%20-%200797.html?search=PIAGGIO%20P.140

Hi, the Canadair CL-45 was ASW helicopter project,CL-52 was Boeing B-47B and CL-61 snow mobile project, what were the Canadair CL-65 (old design) and CL-212 ?.

The projects drawn by Filippo Zappata, famous Italian designer known for the CANT Z 10XX and 5XX series, while working at Breda (circa 1942-1950) are one of the major problems of Italian aviation history. Breda archives were utterly destroyed when the aviation branch of the company went...

The Bristol 191 was intended as the Royal Navy ASW version of the Belvedere (Type-192) and was developed from the Type-173 with uprated engines and modified under carriage etc etc. According to 'Vanguard to Trident' (Eric J Grove) 68 had been ordered to fulfill half of the RN's ASW aircraft...

Hi, this is an unusual method for cargo aircraft,from Curtiss-Wright. http://www.google.com/patents?id=izx-AAAAEBAJ&pg=PP1&dq=curtiss+wright+airplane#PPP1,M1

I've always been fascinated by the late WWII - very early Post WWII Attack a/c prototypes. While most seem to have fairly good info about, the Convair XA-41 being somewhat elusive, I can't find much of anything in print or online about the XBTC-2 (not the XBT2C, sort of a Helldiver II). Heck...

Messrs Buttler and Gibson have put out a blinder with Hypersonics and Missiles, and effectively completed the trilogy on the UK's teeth weapons in the air. Matched with Brown and Moore's Rebuilding the Royal Navy for sea stuff their works pretty much cover the UK waterfront. However, judging by...