interwar period

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...

I've caught papacavy's "What If" disease, but this is purely for interest rather than literary purposes. As we all know, the Fairey Battle was an airplane which, once tested in combat, did not imbue its crews with any confidence that they would come home from attacking defended targets. Let's...

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...

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! 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/

Following the sad passing of the author Manfred Griehl last November, I doubt his pending volume on Fieseler (Fieseler: Flugzeuge seit 1933 - Typenkompass) will ever see publication. This is a great shame as Gerhard Fieseler was a World War I fighter ace who was also a stunt, aerobatic and test...

In a Italian magazine of 1939,"Panorama",i have read an article about Americans flying boats. Was said that a method at the study for land takeoff of flying boats ( in runways near sea aerodromes) was put the flying boat piggy-back on a sort of not flying launch vehicle for reach speed for...

From Jet & Prop 04-05-06/2001, we can talk here about Germany early canard aircraft and projects,the Aachener Segelflugzeugbau GmhH company with its designer Prof. Klemperer created many aircraft,one of them was a flying boat canard project,followed by FVA-3 single seat canard light aircraft...

After Robert Gross bought out the ailing Lockheed Aircraft Company, there was no place found for Allan and Malcolm Lockheed in the new organisation. In 1930 Lockheed Brothers Aircraft Corporation (later the Allan Lockheed Corporation - became Alcor in 1937) was established. Malcolm helped...

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

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...

The US Navy - BuAer Specification SD 112.14 ,soliciting bids for a twin engined VF -Naval Fighter- in 1938. This spec. produced the Grumman Model G-34 (XF5F-1) Brewster ,Seversky and Lockheed were also contending. Bids were asked from 13 companies. Is there any of the Naval Aviation specialist...

Excerpt from an official U. S. Army Air Corps Engineering Division document entitled Army Appropriation Bill, 1922, as reproduced in Aviation and Aircraft Journal Vol. 10, 1921 (bold type and color added): The functions of the Engineering Division, Air Service, can be outlined as follows: To...

Born in 1893 in Absberg / Germany, Reinhold Tiling had begun to work on rockets during 1924. For a safe landing of his rockets, he developed the two techniques: The "Kreiselflugzeug" (Gyroplane), where the tailplane switched to a kind of rotor after burn-out of the rocket engine, decelerating...

Project G - 'Submergible motorboat', originally intended for coastal defence (a 'fighter' concept, armed with two 450 mm torpedoes), prototypes later modified for special operations with the 10th Light Flotilla [Decima Flottiglia MAS]. First batch (prototypes) CA 1 - Scuttled at La Spezia...

Going o/t but on a tangent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=E5dB_9dW2SQ

Aermacchi was an Italian aircraft manufacturer. Established originally in 1912 as the Nieuport-Macchi S.A. by Giulio Macchi at Varese in north-western Lombardy. It was later known as Aeronautica Macchi S.p.A. During the firms formative years Macchi worked closely with engine designer Vittorio...