1930s

Has anyone seen what the early Saro S.36 with gull wings looked like and what was Saro's reason for changing to the design they finally did? What did the Supermarine 314 look like?

Hi, in the Spec. P27/32E for day bomber aircraft, Hawker submitted a proposal for low cantilever wing two seat aircraft project,and maybe a retractable landing gear.

Tatra Aircraft Designations - Závody Ringhoffer-Tatra as* The Ringhoffer-Tatra Works of Prague (Praha-Smíchov) produced a range of aircraft and aero-engine designs in the late 1930s. Both aircraft and engines had 'T' prefixed type designations. Tatra applied a separate 'T' series designations...

The navy type 93 attack-bomber (Mitsubishi 7-shi twin engine carrier base attack bomber) The aircraft carrier "Akagi" went into commission, and the IJN which could make the room the fuselage size which can be used from the carrier directed development of large carrier attack bomber to Mitsubishi...

Hi, here is a group of suggested future light aircraft in Popular Science,featured with low-cost and some of them had new ideas...

In 1932, the Imperial Japanese Navy issued a specification for its 7-Shi Land-based Attack. The only known contender (and winner) of that competition was the Hiro G2H1, or Type 95 Land-based Medium Attack, Twin Engine, also commonly known as the "Dai-ko" or "Big Attack." It was a remarkably...

Hi Aichi F1A. Competitor of Mitsubishi F1M. There was a sea plane version and a land base plane version of F1A.

Hi! Kawanishi E13K. http://www.airwar.ru/enc/sww2/e13k.html Auto translation. In 1937, the Imperial Japanese Navy decided to change the old Scout Kawanishi E7K seaplanes (Navy Type 94 Reconnaissance Seaplane) to more advanced aircraft. For this purpose, contracts were signed with companies...

Hi! Aichi E16A1 Zuiun.

The next edition of The Aviation Historian, published on 15th Oct, will include the first of a 3-part article about Folland's monoplane designs for Gloster in the early 1930s. It includes description and details on three flying boats, including this one. http://www.theaviationhistorian.com/

I was so sure I'd shared a photo of what was then a mysterious aircraft, but couldn't trace the topic despite my efforts. Our friend Tophe probably could have identified right away, since he mentions it in his Forked Ghosts and Catamarans du Ciel works, but he no longer visits this forum...

The Capelis XC12 prototype transport [X12762], built after a patent issued to Greek immigrant Socrates H. Capelis, of El Cerrito, in 1930. It was the sole product of the Capelis Safety Airplane Corp., based at Oakland Airport and El Cerrito, Calif. The aircraft was funded by local Greek...

At the same time as the Design 1047 battlecruiser project was being worked on, the Dutch need for dedicated naval tankers, especially to support operations around the Netherlands East Indies could no longer be ignored, so what was intended to be a eventual two-ship class was (belatedly)...

Greek Large Cruiser proposal from DNC https://www.deviantart.com/tzoli/art/Greek-Large-Cruiser-Design-259030560 This warship is based on the Dido but on an enlarged hull. The DNC or Director of Naval Construction was assigned to create studies for a warship of the Hellenic Navy in 1939. Her...

The Vickers 279 Venom has always seemed like a missed opportunity to me, a solid little eight-gun fighter almost as fast as a Hurricane on only 625 hp. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_Venom http://www.1000aircraftphotos.com/APS/1960.htm (source of images below) I have never understood why...

Hi, here is a comparison between BF.161-V2 and BF.162-V2.

From A Critical Re-Examination of the Franklin Institute Rotating Wing Aircraft Meeting: Much more on Herrick can be found in the source document: http://vtol.org/8248F800-5DFF-11E2-AB4E0050568D0042 Also see the Herrick Finding Aid: http://ebookbrowse.com/herrick-finding-aid-pdf-d6306568...

Hi everyone! Attached, a little work about an unbuilt italian all-wing of the '30s. Comments welcome. Cheers, Marco

Aircraft builder and inventor Antoine Odier co-founded in 1930 with engineer Gustave Bessière (also a respected mathematician and inventor of famous grenade) the Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Aéronautiques (E.S.T.A.) — along with engineer general Louis Jauch. The following year, the two men devised...

I've found three photographs of this interesting French single seat monoplane of 1935, together with some technical data, but little else. The first two images show the Trébucien Sport in its original form (with an open cockpit and a 30 hp Poinsard engine) - These appeared in an issue of...