Does anyone know about this?
This was in a Japanese magazine as a "US Navy Aviation Battleship".
According to the magazine, this was studied by the US Navy in October 1924 and was inspired by a proposal for a British "Hybrid battleship" published in Brassey's Naval Annual in 1923.
General...
Hey everyone, came across these pictures on an old German newspaper about WW1. Lets use this thread to aggregate all information about early armoured cars.
- Coutin
PS: Does anyone recognize the American models?
Re: Australia and the WNT - please see link below;
https://www.navy.gov.au/history/feature-histories/loss-more-symbolic-material
According to the Author, the government of Australia (if it chose) could likely have won excemption and retained HMAS Australia as an “Armoured Cruiser”. As others...
1920s
british commonwealth
british empire
commonwealth of australia
interwar period
royal australian navy
royal navy
united kingdom
washington naval treaty
Does anyone know anything more about this?
https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/568598.html
Description
Scale 1:192. A plan showing the outboard profile and arrangement of rig of a proposed aircraft carrier/liner hybrid by Eustace H. T. D'Eyncourt [Director of Naval...
Not long ago I've finished drawing the various Amagi/Akagi carrier designs I've found in the Hiraga archive.
So I post them here now:
Amagi Aircraft Carrier Preliminary Design 1
https://www.deviantart.com/tzoli/art/Amagi-Aircraft-Carrier-Preliminary-Design-1-827366018
This is something...
1920s
eight-eight fleet program
empire of japan
imperial japanese navy
imperial japanese navy air service
imperial japanese navy technical department
interwar period
washington naval treaty
Indeed, despite the Admiralty’s efforts to ridicule Trenchard’s claims, they were very worried about what the torpedo-bomber might mean for the future of their capital ships. During the 1920s they would go to great lengths to improve air defence, including, with the Hornet programme, an attempt...
New book available which may be of tangential interest to SPF members. Automotive history is filled with concepts which never left the drawing board, with early streamlined projects being among the more fascinating. This book presents ten of the most striking and unusual aerodynamic automobile...
Hi,
the Swedish company Svenska Aero Aktiebolaget was formed in 1921 to build some
Heinkel aircraft and its own designs,in 1931 liquidated and taken over by the Svenska
Järnvägsverkstäderna,AB,and in 1939 the company merged with Svensak Aeroplan AB
to create SAAB.
Heinkel HE 1...
Hi,
here is a US transatlantic flying boat project,it had a tandem three wing,it appeared
in Aero Digest,maybe in 1926,but it was familiar to me,do we make a discussing about
it before ...
I've recently found this pretty interesting Japanese Project at the Hiraga Archive.
It looks like a hybrid cruiser-carrier warship from 1920's era. There seems to be a few variants mostly by how large the hanger should be and where to locate the conning tower and AA guns.
Apart from the unique...
I've found calculations for a 10.000ton cruiser in the Hiraga archives. What is unique about this vessel that it would carry 4 triple 20cm heavily armoured gun turrets, though calculations shows quad turrets were considered as well, but it is unknown if it would carry the same number of such...
Hi,
during 1924,Randolph F. Hall designed a three different monoplane aircraft patents for the Thomas-Morse company.
http://scripophily.net/airdesbyranh.html
Hi,
the Lithuanian designer Dobkeviciaus designed Type I as a single seat touring aircraft,
and developed it into Type III,as a single seat fighter;
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6556089d/f2.image
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,6943.msg59364.html#msg59364
From the page 80 of the book: Cockatoo Island: Sydney's Historic Dockyard:
http://books.google.hu/books?id=1ulc79wlY54C&printsec=frontcover&hl=hu#v=onepage&q=cruiser&f=false
These cruisers are designed by Cockatoo Island naval Dockyards in 1924 and Vickers in 1929.
They resemble a...
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...
Hi,
the engineering Stefan Malinowski was a Polish designer,he interested to modify airplane
wings,began with Caudron G-3,as I think Type-I,followed by some modifications we can
called it Type-II,the Stemal-III (Type-III) was an experimental airplane based on a fuselage
of Nieuport 83 with a...
1920s
1930s
government of the republic of poland in exile
great britain
interwar period
polish armed forces in the west
pre-world war ii
royal air force
second polish republic
world war ii
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