interwar period

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    The Tradewind magazine, February 1930 - Wright Aircraft Engines

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/334429752518?hash=item4ddd910cc6:g:7AoAAOSwPxNiYxmt
  2. Dynoman

    Projects of the German Secret Flight Test Center at Lipetsk, USSR 1924-1933

    This thread was created to discuss the projects, plans, facilities, operations, and historical implications of the German interwar flight test center and military pilot training school that was developed in secrecy between the Germans and the Russians. This airfield played an important role in...
  3. B

    WW1 period (~1900-1920s) experimental and small-known artillery (field, siege, AA)

    Germany: - 3,7cm TAK gun: https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww1/germany/3-7cm-tankabwehrkanone-rheinmetall?amp - 28cm Krupp haubitze L/14 i.R., 1912-1913 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_cm_Haubitze_L/14_i.R. - 28cm Erhardt haubitze L/12, 1912-1913 - 9cm Rheinmetall kanonenhaubitze L/31, 1917-1918...
  4. Jareel

    Looking for Der Flug magazine from 1920

    Hi, I'm looking for any volume of the "Der Flug" magazine published in Vienna in 1920 by Österreichische Flugtechnische Verein (Austrian Aeronautical Association) - per WorldCat this magazine doesn't exist, but I have found an article from it (Das Problem der Weltraumfahrt from Dezember 1920...
  5. Graham1973

    United States Navy - 10,000 Ton Aircraft Carrier (1925)

    This is the last of the post-Washington Treaty designed carriers covered in the 1st volume of USN 'Springstyle' design books. It's a small 10,000 ton Aircraft Carrier that looks like a 'regularized' version of the USS Langley (CV-1) conversion. Of note is that the armament is purely anti-surface...
  6. klem

    French Bullpup Rifles before FAMAS .

    The history of the bullpup in France began long before the famous FAMAS which certainly marked its time but it was born under the constraint of the international conflicts. as assault rifle France had its misadventure during years from 1945 to 1970 with various programs and much expenditure...
  7. Admiral_Austin_Mars

    Entwurf D6 and D7a (D-class Panzerschiffe variations) (Ersatz Elsass)

    Howdy folks! I recently came across these two designs/blueprints of the D-class panzerschiffe (more like battlecruisers at this point), which were originally named Ersatz Elsass and Ersatz Hessen that eventually became battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau from my understanding of their...
  8. Boxman

    Detroit ZMC-2 Metal-Skinned Airship (1929-1941)

    I didn't see any topics featuring or referencing this interesting airship (including the compelling figures involved in its development and construction), but I came across a some newsreel footage of it worthy of posting and created this topic for reference and as a potentially clearinghouse for...
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    FAA flying hardware, 1937-45?

    Or, in other words, lets give to the FAA some attractive hardware that gets the job done and then some. Whether something later to be made earlier, or something that never flew, or a substantial mod to an existing design. Limitations of availability of engines, armament and electronics remain -...
  10. Grey Havoc

    Air India: The iconic maharajah returns home (BBC)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-58778273 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-58778274
  11. klem

    Soviet experiments of various guided and unguided devices before 1945

    Since the end of the First World War, bold attempts were made in the Soviet Union in the field of rockets and various types of weapons, although timid, but existing and somewhat significant for the hard period that the Union was going through at that time, sometimes typically handcrafted and...
  12. klem

    A self-guided French bomb in 1939.

    In the magazine "Décollage" N°64 of 06.19.1947- p 12 .a reader Mr. Alphonse Martin informed the editorial staff of the magazine that he realized in 1939 the plans of a self-guided bomb. It is a gliding bomb launched by plane and equipped with an automatic piloting device which directs it towards...
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    Nieuport 31 Fighter

    French two prototypes buildt in 1919... is said to be one of the best looking aircraft of the WW1. The name " Sesquiplane" means 'one-and-a-half wings.'" Its sleek smooth streamlined wooden monocoque shell of tulipwood, was produced by winding thin spiral strips around a mould in a series of...
  14. Grey Havoc

    Royal Afghan Army

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKBpTThDopY
  15. Schneiderman

    Air Ministry specification R.2/33 - Short Sunderland

    I'm on the scrounge. Does anyone have a copy , or just the key text, of specification R.2/33 that they would be willing to share? Failing that does anyone know whether the text of the specification has been included in any article or book, most likely one about the Sunderland. Thanks
  16. hesham

    Drawings to Early Lavochkin Aircraft

    From, Самолеты С. А. Лавочкина.
  17. Arjen

    OSGA-25 hydroplane catamaran

    A design by Vladimir Gartvig, drawing by Vladimir Meshcherin. Images OSGA-25 1-4 from Russisches Design - Tradition und Experiment 1920-1990 by Alexander Lavrentiev and Yuri Nasarow, Ernst & Sohn 1995. Images OSGA-25 5-7 found here: https://gashetka.tumblr.com/ View...
  18. trajan

    Sir George Thurston cruiser designs Type A,B,C

    I learned about these interested drawings from another forum, and there are links to the sources given by other members below. But a companion of mine believes that these are "fake drawings" made using some Australia's cruiser plan drawings and Photoshop. I feel distressed. So are these...
  19. hesham

    Polikarpov U-2 Drawings

    From, Поликарпов У-2, here is a drawings to Polikarpov U-2 and its variants.
  20. S

    US 4.7-inch & 105 mm Anti Aircraft Gun/Mobile Gun (1920s)

    I was looking for the history of the anti-aircraft guns of the US Army since 1918 but then stumbled upon an AA gun that I never heard of before. A little effort to find some information was done, but it's surprisingly quite scarce. 4.7-inch Mobile Gun, M1920E The gun was supposed to be the...
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