world war i

Hello, I don't have many references - but I've always been fascinated by these. Ultimately they didn't work. In part these designs overlooked the impacts of increasingly power autocannons, in part they forgot the inherent difficulty hitting small and manoeuvrable targets from an airborne...

Hello people IM looking for info about experimental and never build projects from the German Albatross and Siemens company Ill hope some one could provide me with some info /pics thanks in advance T-50

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fleet-Air-Arm-Carrier-War/dp/1844159035/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252920230&sr=8-1 http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/?product_id=2050 I have no specific info on this book but Kev Darling has written some good books before.

hello guys at the end of WW1 Was there a aircraft designer the later famous Claudius Dornier. He had designed an entirely metal biplane like his big rival Hugo Junkers did before him. It was Named the Dornier D1 Falke,did someone having info about this very advanced aircraft? A set of good...

hello I hope that someone can help me on info about never build German WW1 fighters,I m a great fan of unbuild aircraft projects. So I'm very curious what the Germans had store for us if WW1 continued after 1918 thanks in advance T-50

I finally got the microfilm in the mail of all four volumes of this study; and had them scanned by a local company. First up, the magnificient maidien known as the Valkyrie: Reading further; North American was very dead set against Active Defense in any form for the B-70; which isn't that...

Not long ago I learned about the Fliegerfaust or Luftfaust WWII German anti-aircraft multi-barreled rocket launchers, which piqued my curiosity. Does anyone know of any other prototypes or projects for unguided anti-aircraft weapons, not tradional anti-aircraft guns but other novel attempts...

With the recent Supermarine list I tried to get a Vickers list from the inromaftion in limited my library. The list is far from complete and is offered here as a start. I will load it up in groups. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Refer EFB-1 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27...

Once upon a time I gave an information to aerofiles.com that project of Seversky's naval fighter NF-1 had to be developed under designation XFN-1 by NAF. There are still doubts about the question ... Never mind. Doubts spread : We all know of PN famous reco series, then P2N, then P4N ; what...

Following a link posted from Jemiba (thanks a lot for it) I found a what looks like a super british battleship but I can't identify it. Any idea? Thanks in advance

Many, many years ago a discussion forum for never-were ship designs was created called Warship Projects which is currently in version 3 here. I thought I'd post some of the more interesting projects here. This topic covers various designs by Ansaldo in Italy for Russia, Greece and Spain and the...

junkers homepage : http://hugojunkers.pytalhost.com/juf_home.htm#contents old site but still up , dedicated to Hugo Junkers, Anyone know if there are others , dedicated to Heinkel, Messerschmitt etc, etc ??

Thank you dears Richard and Apophenia, and here is an aircraft look like the Dornier RS IV,and the RS IV was first flown in 12/10/1918,and in Flightglobal in 1919 as a project. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1919/1919%20-%201256.html

Hi guys :), I wonder if any of you knows more about those freelance engineers who presented their own designs to the competent authorities. The one depicted here, sent to me by Lark ( thanks again ;), Paul ) is from Wilhelm Hillmann, an engineer at Bremen. From "Die deutschen Flugboote...

Hi, http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1935/1935%20-%200156.pdf

you know Luft '46 http://www.luft46.com/ over proposed aircraft project during WW2 but is there a similar webpage over proposed project during WW1 ? thanks in advance...

Hi everbody I have found some ! Austro-Hungarian "(Hovercraft)" from 1915 It should be a torpedo boat or demolition boat with 1200kg warhead! Here are a few good Websites that describe the system...

Hi, FockeWulf261, I have found some more data concerning the German bombers R series from the book "Prof. Junkers nannte es "Die Flieger"" by Hermann Pohlmann: 1- Junkers R1 power-plant installation (4 x 250hp) 2- Siemens R-1 (Span: 30m, Weight: 5500kg, 3 x 150hp) 3- Zeppelin-Staaken R-VI ((4 x...

Hi, The Arado SO-Geret a piloted version of E.377 flying bomb project. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_aircraft_of_Germany_by_manufacturer

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