late 19th century

  1. Grey Havoc

    Corpo della Regia Guardia di Finanza

    An article on the RINA website regarding an recent addition to the fleet of the present day Guardia di Finanza, got me to wondering, just what designs had been proposed over the years for the naval element of its previous incarnation as the Regia Guardia di Finanza (1881-1946)?
  2. Grey Havoc

    Destroyer development (late 19th - early 20th Century)

    • Grey Havoc
    • Thread
    • admiral john fisher destructor drachinifel early 20th century jeune école late 19th century naval history torpedo boat torpedo boat destroyer torpedo gunboat
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    • Forum: Found on the Internet
  3. W

    Brearey Oscillating / Undulating Wing - Skate-Style Flight?

    Hi folks, As aye, hope this isn’t old news. Saw this one as a model-drawing in a book I owned thirty-odd years ago and never found out the name until yesterday but here is an odd thing from 1879-1885 - an aircraft that isn't quite an ornithopter but not a fixed wing design or rotorcraft either...
  4. Grey Havoc

    Balloonatics

    http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28674654
    • Grey Havoc
    • Thread
    • balloons great britain late 19th century lighter than air lta victorian era
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  5. S

    Crystal Palace

    Around the previous turn of the century, there was an Engineering School based in the Crystal Palace, Paxton's famous glass exhibition building which had by then been re-erected at Sydenham in London. Several pioneer aviators passed through the area at one time or another, but I know of no...
    • steelpillow
    • Thread
    • aeronautical society of great britain early 20th century edwardian era great britain late 19th century royal aeronautical society royal society of arts victorian era
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  6. Cy-27

    Levasseur Aircraft Designations (France)

    Pierre Levasseur was a French aircraft designer born in 1871. His company was called Sociéte Pierre Levasseur Aéronautique and thay produced aircraft mainly for the French Navy in the inter-war period. As a subsidiary, Levasseur also ran a successful flying school. The chief pilot of his...
    • Cy-27
    • Thread
    • early 20th century french third republic interwar period late 19th century world war ii
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Designation Systems
  7. blackkite

    Japanese aircraft pioneer Chuhachi Ninomiya

    Hi! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%ABhachi_Ninomiya http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WsPnusghwc
  8. Michel Van

    Jules Verne "Albatros" a more realistic look

    Jules Verne was a Genius with books like "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" and submarine "Nautilus" in "Robur the Conqueror" published in 1886 feature the "Albatross" a Airship equip with 37 vertical propellers. the Albatross can be see as precursor to Helicopter but how look and work a...
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