light aviation

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...

Ever since 1911, Glenn H. Curtiss constantly dreamed of an airplane which would become a "family car of the air". His last efforts in this direction was a "flying wing" biplane with a pusher propeller, the configuration of which was very much like that of the Dunne D.8 of 1911. The similarity...

Source: http://www.eaa.org/news/2013/2013-06-20_paris-air-show.asp http://www.flaris.pl/mobile/general.html http://twinn.pl/?idd=6&rok=2013&page=0&id=755&poz=ml0

Here is an article from LA FANA magazine issue 371,about the Lanier company,I know it had eight experimental aircraft designs,but it is the first time to know PL-9 and PL-10.

No other country has seen as many aircraft designs as the United States. Apart from those emanating from the big industrial companies, many of these have largely fallen into oblivion... Sometimes they appear in a corner of an old magazine and we think "Wow! Never heard about THAT ONE!", and...

Designed to meet the transportation needs of family and business air travel, the four-place Aeronca Model 10 Eaglewas to be roomier than any other plane in its price class. Peter Altman, Detroit University aeronautical engineer and consultant to Aeronca, designed the Eagle. It was to have...

The original offices of the Aeronautical Corp. of America (Aeronca) were in the old Federal Reserve Bank Building on Fourth Street in Cincinnati. The Cincinnati group was quietly casting about for a suitable airplane to manufacture. This information came to the attention of Conrad Dietz, a...

Found this British aircraft of the 1930s and have no idea if it was actually produced, or if the Navarro company did anything else. Here are excerpts from the 1931 brochure... Has anyone heard of Navarro before? Other pics would be greatly appreciated! THE NAVARRO "CHIEF" THREE SEATER SALOON...

This sounds like a fascinating series of competitions (with more than fifty registrants and twenty flying prototypes in some years). I'm quite curious to no more about it. I've found references (and photos) of a few individual contenders - but trying to figure out what the designers were...

Hi, here is the Max Holste H-20 P.1 twin boom shoulder high wing glider, I think one was built. http://www.retroplane.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=54470

After the experimental Models G and H, Bendix Helicopters, Inc. had a go at finding their place on the market of small-size helicopters with the Models J and K, which both received the name Whirlaway. Unfortunately Hiller had already invested the segment of coaxial rotorcraft, and there seemed...

Georges Sablier (and Aviación Vizcaína SA) Type Designations Designation Style: some current sources display Sablier designations as S-xx. Contemporary documents, including Sablier plan pamphlets always display designations as Sablier type xx. At some point in the mid-1930s, Georges Sablier...

Dear Boys and Girls, here is an article in French about the Lesher Teal experimental light aircraft and its design predecessor, the Lesher Nomad. They remind me a little of the Learfan 2100 in layout...... The article comes from the 15th March 1966 issue of Aviation Magazine International...

Hi all, anybody know more about this czech aircraft? Thanks Maveric

Hi, we know only for this Russian company; Rafaelyants or simply RAF,that RAF-1 was ultra-light low-wing monoplane of 1925, RAF-2 was two-seat cantilever low-wing monoplane of 1926 and the RAF-11 was twin-engined low-wing small tarnsport aircraft of 1935,nobody knows the RAF-3 to RAF-10 ,and if...

Hi all, I have some projects by the good known latvian designer Karlis Irbitis. Let´s start in the chronolgical order... ...the I.1 to I.9 are build aircraft. The first projects was I.10 "Kaija II".

Latvian Aircraft Production -- 1921-1940 Latvian organization abbreviations AD = Aviācijas divizions (Aviation Division) [1] - 1921-1926 JAD = Jūras Aviācijas divizions (Naval Aviation) [2] - 1922-1926 AP = Aviācijas pulks (Aviation regiment)* - 1926-1940 -- * Regular Latvian Air Force, and...

Hi all, can you give a short history of the british aircraft builder Heston? I need also informations about the aircraft(projects?) J.?.2/ J.?.4/ J.?.7 and J.?.8... ...was J.C.9 the last project by Heston? Thanks Servus Maveric

Hi all, found this pics from japanese gliders of the WW2. Can you give a identification?

Hi, The Japanese company NAMC YS-12 was developed from YS-11 but powered by two Rolls Royce dart RDa 10s ,YS-31 was with two RDa 7s and the YS-12-4 was with four RDa 10 engines. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1959/1959 - 3097.html?search=ys-12