pre-world war i

Hello folks, Hope this is not old news or wrongly placed – if so, many apologies: for all that the illustration below is an artist's impression, I decided to try this in 'Early Aircraft' (as opposed to ‘Theoretical and Speculative’) because there were at least scale-model versions of this idea...

In April 1914 the American magazine Aircraft reported that the Hamilton Aero Mfg. Co. of Seattle, Washington, were putting the finishing touches on an flying or aero boat with a completely closed cabin. It had a streamlined hull with the bow coming to a point while stern was tapered. The...

These texts were from Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906-1921 and 1922-1946 Late 19th century: The 1899 Naval Expansion Programme: My notes: The 4 built river monitors were ships of the Ion C. Bratianu class The 8 river torpedo-boats are the ships of the Capitan Nicolae Lascar...

Hi, here is a three little known light aircraft from Italy,the first called Bottini M.B.2,the second aircraft from Mr. Crisanti and the third was Fongri - De Grignani,does anyone one know more,but must be a little known ...

Hi, here is Guidoni early aircraft concepts,and his his activities in aviation about developed a floats to anther airplanes,in early period. http://www.alieuomini.it/pagine/dettaglio/uomini,5/ricordi_di_idroaviazione,21.html

Anyone know something about japanese airships until 1945 ? I have found this article on j-aircraft : http://www.j-aircraft.com/research/jas_jottings/japanese_airships.htm

Thank you Tuizentfloot, and please can you tell us about the projects in it?.

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...

Hi, we can also here,speak about AEG projects,and we talk about AEG R-Project and R.II in this topic; http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,15020.0.html But,does anyone hear about AEG G.VI bomber project ?.

Gabardini/CANSA Aircraft Designations After designing a radical catamaran flying boat in France in 1910, Giuseppe Gabardini returned to Italy in 1912 and set up Aeroplani Gabardini at Taliedo. In Dec 1913, Gabardini took over the Cameri facilities of AVIS (Ateliers Voisin Italie Septentrionale)...

Hi, the Germany company AGO has a branch in Austria,that branch developed a sesquiplane pursuit flying boat aircraft during WW1,powered by one 218 hp Warschalowski pusher engine.

Leopold Bauer worked for the Jacob Lohner & Co aircraft firm until the end of World War One. The firm was one of the first aircraft companies in Austria-Hungary, which began with the production of aircraft propellers. Starting in 1912 a propeller construction division was created, which...

Hi, we spoke before about many Fiat projects,but I open this topic to continue talking about more Fiat Projects. the G.4 was a two seat light aircraft project,powered by one 760 hp Fiat A.6 R engine,I hope we get a more unknown Fiat G series projects...

Hi! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%ABhachi_Ninomiya http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WsPnusghwc

Here are some summary notes on the Scottish Company Beardmore who's aircraft manufacturing activities began in 1913 and ended in the 1920's. Beardmore-D.F.W. Round Britain Racer In 1913 William Beardmore and Company took over the building rights in Britain for the German Deutsche Flugzeug Werke...

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...

After WW I Schütte-Lanz, led by Prof. Schütte tried to get into the civil airship business by designing Trans-Atlantic airships. SL 101 "Atlantic" would have had a volume of 95,000 cbm, whereas SL 102 "Panamerica" would have been considerble bigger with 205,000 cbm. Apart from the wartime...

I found this rather interesting PDF on what could have been Denmark's first submarine. It's in Danish, so here's the Google translate translation. "Description of Captain V. Hovgaard Project for a submarine. 1900 " Or what could have been Navy's first submarine ... By Søren Nørby, cand. mag...

Aeromarine (nd) Boland's first, unsuccessful plane (1909, 1 built) B two-place pusher motor; canard stabilizers with twin rudders between the wingtips (1910, 1 built) (nd) Aeromarine's first official type, Boland's single-seat canard pusher flying boat (1914, 1 built) (nd) military...

Hi, V.14 Binz was float plane of 1922. V.15 Sellin was flying boat with enclosed cabin for passengers. V.16 was an airliner biplane. V.17 was float plane and powered by Benz engine. V.23 Anklam was a low-wing monoplane powered by one Siemens Sh 4 engine,a high wing also planned. V.25...