1930s

Société Dyle et Bacalan - 1924-1929 In 1924, shipbuilders Société de Travaux Dyle et Bacalan of Bordeaux established an aeronautical division to design and build aircraft of all-metal construction. This shipbuilding firm went bankrupt in 1928 and was bought by the Ateliers et Chantiers...

This book is written by the german Winkler-Researcher Reinhard Sagner. He focuses on the technical asprects of Winkler´s work in and for the Junkers Company in Dessau in the time between 1929 and 1939, when Winkler left Junkers for the Luftfahrtforschungsanstalt Braunschweig. The author has used...

This is an alternative history of Goddard's historical liquid rocket launch of 1926 and the succeeding development of a fictional experimental rocket airplane based on Goddard's designs. The advent of the design and its governmental support ultimately leads to a change in the course of the US...

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220919-the-sunken-steamboats-of-maines-moosehead-lake

Hi all! In one work dedicated to the Spanish Civil War (Euzkadiko Gudontzidia. La Marina de Guerra Auxiliar de Euzkadi (1936-39), Juan Pardo San Gil), information was found regarding the plans of the Basque government to strengthen its armed forces, including the navy. Two interesting projects...

Video might be of interest. Can't speak to its accuracy, but at least it doesn't seem too insane. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfio0VHXUmw

I've just read this in the Battleships Axis and Neutral Battleships in World War II book by William H. Garzke and Robert O. Dulin about a proposed modernization of the 2x Espana class battleships. Does anybody know anything more about this project? also

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...

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

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

A website devoted to tracking as many of the various iterations of the M4 Sherman as can be determined from surviving documentation. http://the.shadock.free.fr/sherman_minutia/index.html

Actually an early example of a signals intelligence mission: View: https://youtu.be/tfTkgT_XvCc

Yes, that Norman Bel Geddes. The yacht mentioned in the reddit post is the Wenner-Gren Yacht design of 1934, with a both a naval yacht and a naval patrol vessel derived from it proposed for the United States Navy in 1939 at the outset of WWII (see JaySea article). View...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxaJgxXavc Note that this video was made before the current Covid-19 related model making renaissance had really gotten underway.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5G7GbaLkyo I'm not sure if I agree with his conclusions here, especially given that the A13 Covenanter was such a huge disaster.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb5F5s2F3mA

Hi, "Superhansa" Project SA-15 (S8), an interesting swedish development, from http://flygplanshistorik.se/index.htm?s=s2345/s2345_flyget.htm

who can help me with sources who give more information/details of the CC-2000 and CC-3000. concerning these two I found only the information that is has to do with the total power of the engines. please real sources and not he told that he told!!!!! Thanks

So, Austrians had Italian fighters Fiat CR.32 but why they didn't decide to develop their own fighters? Here's the pic of an Austrian CR. 32

Is there a list of all the factories who planned to get to this competition? I can only find some details of the aeroplanes who has been there. Are there any details/materials etc. Concerning the aeroplane projects who not were completed/buil for this competition?