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...
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...
My grandfather, Charles Francis Hamel, passed away earlier this year at the age of 93. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy after Pearl Harbor and eventually became an officer and a pilot, flying a U.S. Coast Guard PBY Catalina on North Atlantic patrols in 1945. He got his start in aviation, however...
Alfred Renard built a number of aircraft, mostly before the start of World War II.
Alfred started on the ACAZ T-2 but his early substantial design input was at Société Anonyme Belge de Constructions Aéronautiques (S.A.B.C.A.) before joining forces with Stampe and Vertongen. His main work for...
With the recent correspondence on BV designs http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,6272.15.html I though I would add my notes on the various types.
Taken from various sources over years, most recently some old Air Enthusiast magazines and Manfred Griehl's Blohm und Voss...
daimler-benz ag
early 1940s
late 1930s
luftwaffe
nazi germany
pre-worldwarii
reich ministry of armaments and war production
reichsluftfahrtministerium
third reich
world warii
...so as not to hijack the British thread!
Let's start with a subject to which I hope to be able to make a meager contribution to: design constraints and philosophy behind design decisions.
Hermione Giffard's PhD thesis and hopefully soon-to-be book "The Development and Production of Turbojet...
Anyone have a three view drawing of the Blackburn B.29 torpedo bomber?
prior posting: http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,4519.msg35771/topicseen.html#msg35771
Does anybody know enything about the competition that led to the USN. I realized that I have nothing but the Boeing Model 374 rival design.
Name and details of the request for proposals, contenders?
Anything will be welcomed
Antonio
As a slide rule addict (and, by way of disclosure, an ordinary member of the Oughtred Society), I'm well aware of the slide rule's proud history in aerospace design and research. Now we know that it almost certainly wasn't all done with slide rules - log and trig tables, mechanical calculators...
Hi,
the engineering Stefan Malinowski was a Polish designer,he interested to modify airplane
wings,began with Caudron G-3,as I think Type-I,followed by some modifications we can
called it Type-II,the Stemal-III (Type-III) was an experimental airplane based on a fuselage
of Nieuport 83 with a...
1920s
1930s
government of the republic of poland in exile
great britain
interwar period
polish armed forces in the west
pre-worldwarii
royal air force
second polish republic
world warii
The same as for the "EFo" series, again all pictures (in low res only) are from Wolfgang Wagners
book "Hugo Junkers. Pionier der Luftfahrt - seine Flugzeuge"
EF 50 maybe racer or record aircraft
EF 53 4-engined long range passenger aircraft
EF 55 used to measure the effects of...
empire of japan
imperial japanese navy
imperial japanese navy air service
interwar period
kaigun kokusho
pre-worldwarii
world warii
yokosuka naval air technical arsenal
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