world war i

  1. hesham

    Early Daimler Prototypes & Projects

    German Aircraft of Minor Manufacturers in WWI Vol.1, here is an early Damiler designs from G & R series,also L-12 Transport version Project ,also L-12 Bomber to Chile,and primary G bomber Project, called FL-3 ?.
  2. hesham

    Kondor Little Known Prototypes & Projects

    From, German Aircraft of Minor Manufacturers in WWI Vol.1, here is some little known Prototypes,also the Kondor D.III,D.IV & D.V were a Projects,but no more details.
  3. World B4

    Improved 18 inch gun mount on the HMS Prince Eugene

    In this video at 7:20, it is stated that the HMS Prince Eugene was to receive an 18 inch gun from the Furious, and it would have been mounted differently in an improved manner compared to the previously modified Lord Clive class monitors. Any illustrations of this, technical or otherwise, would...
  4. ptdockyard

    Modernization of US Flush Deck destroyers

    I believe this drawing is from one of HT Lenton's books on US Destroyers published in the early 1970's. I made a 1/1200 model of this but heve never been able to find any corroborating data on the proposed design. Can anyone shed any light on this one? Dave G The PT Dockyard
  5. blackkite

    The IJA Kai-shiki, Mo-shiki, Sei-shiki and Ko-shiki aircraft

    Hi! I will post these aircraft.
  6. Airborne2001

    Diplane Yordanov-1

    Meet the first Bulgarian designed aircraft! This plane was designed by the successful Assen Jordanoff, following the necessity for a domestic aircraft is Bulgaria. The need had its roots in the Second Balkan war, which caused the fledgling Bulgarian air industry to begin to fall flat after only...
  7. Dynoman

    World War I Foreign Aircraft Exploitation Programs(?)

    I was looking into the possibility of the existence of WWI foreign aircraft exploitation programs after looking at a number of German aircraft in the hands of Allied troops during the war. I found that the US Signal Corps maintained a Foreign Data Section of its intelligence branch within the...
  8. Grey Havoc

    WWI era French M15 Adrian helmet superior in some respects to modern U.S. Army Advanced Combat Helmet

    https://gizmodo.com/helmets-from-wwi-just-as-protective-against-overhead-bl-1841700511 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0228802
  9. Grey Havoc

    First Australian Imperial Force

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Australian_Imperial_Force https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Monash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hamel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Amiens_(1918)
  10. World B4

    WW1 Aircraft Weapons (General)

    From Germany: The Fokker Liemberger, a precursor to the modern minigun https://guns.fandom.com/wiki/Fokker-Leimberger The Gast Gun, cylindrical drum mag is the 8mm mauser version, curved box mag is the 13.2mm TuF version https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=202027...
  11. Tzoli

    Argentinian Never-Were Warship Designs and Proposals

    Do you guys know any other never-weres or proposed warships for the Argentinian Navy? I know only these so far: TR-1400 class Submarines from the 1980's San Luis class Destroyers of 1910 (British built, finished as Aetos class for Greece) Mendoza class Destroyers of 1910 (Finished as...
  12. Michel Van

    Aircraft development in the world were Germany won WW1.

    I working on Timeline were Germany win WW1 How would affect this Aircraft development ? Some Background Information on what is Different in this Timeline USA remain neutral in WW1 except they went almost armed conflict with Great Britain do Sea Blockade USSR establish in 1917 with June...
  13. Grey Havoc

    Incredible WW1 Military Vehicle Convoy Steam Through Dorset 11/8/18

  14. hesham

    Praga Early Projects

    Hi, we can speak here about CKD-Praga early Projects,and that was a drawing to early Praga E-112 Project drawing from 1938,as a light and trainer low-wing monoplane,after WWII,the aircraft built in a different shape. L+K 8/1975
  15. hesham

    L. Janoir Aircraft & Projects

    Hi, Mr. L. Janoir was a French pilot,and in 1911 he designed his first monoplane,maybe called J-1,he worked for Deperdussin in 1912,and he went to Germany,but return and help the same designer again,and in 1914 left to Russia,he employed for Vladimir Lebedev,maybe created the J-2 in there. He...
  16. A

    British WW1 concrete build sailing merchant ships

    Dear Readers, I am well aware this ship isn't naval.. anyway I hope you don't mind me posting it here. Doing research and checking around some stuff over at the internet I accidentally across this vessel in some PDF file. Does anyone know more about this vessel or this project in general...
  17. snark

    R.I.P. James F. Lansdale

    Posted in J-Aircraft.com yesterday: Dear Members of J-Aircraft.com, Once again, I am afraid it is my sad duty to inform you of the saddest news of all in this dark year of devastating loss for the aviation history fraternity. After a 22 year battle with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, our dear friend...
  18. Apophenia

    Fokker Alpha-Numeric Aircraft Designations

    Fokker Designation Style First World War Fokker Aircraft Designations While in Germany, Anthony Fokker's various corporate entities applied internal designations to aircraft designs. This early designation series began with 'M' for 'Militär' followed by an individual type number in Arabic...
  19. Grey Havoc

    'Deborah'

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/19/hail-deborah-british-tank-smashed-german-defences-100-years/
  20. C

    Japanese 'dream project' battleships and never built battleships

    Hello people! I'm looking for information about the following projects, some pure paper projects, other more serious proposals never come to fruition: -Kaneda battleship: an alleged 1914 study by Commander Kaneda about an half million ton battleship armed with 100 41cm guns in 50 double turrets...
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