world war i

  1. hesham

    L. Janoir Aircraft & Projects

    Hi, Mr. L. Janoir was a French pilot,and in 1911 he designed his first monoplane,maybe called J-1,he worked for Deperdussin in 1912,and he went to Germany,but return and help the same designer again,and in 1914 left to Russia,he employed for Vladimir Lebedev,maybe created the J-2 in there. He...
  2. A

    British WW1 concrete build sailing merchant ships

    Dear Readers, I am well aware this ship isn't naval.. anyway I hope you don't mind me posting it here. Doing research and checking around some stuff over at the internet I accidentally across this vessel in some PDF file. Does anyone know more about this vessel or this project in general...
  3. snark

    R.I.P. James F. Lansdale

    Posted in J-Aircraft.com yesterday: Dear Members of J-Aircraft.com, Once again, I am afraid it is my sad duty to inform you of the saddest news of all in this dark year of devastating loss for the aviation history fraternity. After a 22 year battle with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, our dear friend...
  4. Apophenia

    Fokker Alpha-Numeric Aircraft Designations

    Fokker Designation Style First World War Fokker Aircraft Designations While in Germany, Anthony Fokker's various corporate entities applied internal designations to aircraft designs. This early designation series began with 'M' for 'Militär' followed by an individual type number in Arabic...
  5. Grey Havoc

    'Deborah'

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/19/hail-deborah-british-tank-smashed-german-defences-100-years/
  6. C

    Japanese 'dream project' battleships and never built battleships

    Hello people! I'm looking for information about the following projects, some pure paper projects, other more serious proposals never come to fruition: -Kaneda battleship: an alleged 1914 study by Commander Kaneda about an half million ton battleship armed with 100 41cm guns in 50 double turrets...
  7. Hood

    Airminded Airpower and British Society 1908-41

    I stumbled across this interesting blog by an Australian academic Dr Brett Holman who has researched the cultural impacts of the fear of bombing on British society during the early 20th century. There are a lot of other interesting British and Australian related aviation entries too...
  8. cluttonfred

    Yacht designers gone to war in WWI or WWII?

    I came across this apparently unbuilt 1943 light patrol boat design by American yacht designer William Atkin. William began designing boats back in the 1900s and was joined and eventually succeeded by son John. The Atkins are basically legends as 20th century designers of pleasure and utility...
  9. P

    Italian Submarines 1895-Present

    What can the dozens of experts tell me about Italian designed and built submarines?
  10. cluttonfred

    USAAS (1918-1926) monoplanes?

    I am trying to identify which monoplane aircraft were flown by the U.S. Army Air Service during its brief 1918-1926 existence in a largely biplane era. So far, I have come up with two: --Fokker T-2 transport/ambulance --Verville-Sperry R-3 racer Can anyone think of any more? Cheers...
  11. jzichek

    Streamlined Dreams: Ten Amazing Unbuilt Automobile Designs, 1916-1939

    New book available which may be of tangential interest to SPF members. Automotive history is filled with concepts which never left the drawing board, with early streamlined projects being among the more fascinating. This book presents ten of the most striking and unusual aerodynamic automobile...
  12. Grey Havoc

    Armistice Day 2016

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/11/armistice-day-two-minute-silence-to-be-observed-to-remember-the2/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37938047
  13. hesham

    Blackburn Triplanes

    Hi, here is a Blackburn unknown Triplane Fighter Project of 1917,featured with a propeller mounted at the mid-fuselage,and powered by one 110 hp engine,what was this ?. http://www.avia-it.com/act/biblioteca/periodici/PDF%20Riviste/Aeronautica/L'Aeronautica%201930%2002.pdf
  14. Stargazer

    Yokosuka (Yokosho/Yosho, Kugisho/Kusho) related topics on this forum

    Following a heavy reorganization of all Japanese aircraft topics, here is the breakdown of all Yokosuka-related threads this far: Yokosho (Yokosuka) Navy Type 10 Reconnaissance Seaplane Kusho (Yokosuka) Type 96 Carrier Attack (B4Y1) Yokosuka 9-Shi Medium-Sized Flying Boat (H5Y) Yokosuka 12-Shi...
  15. hesham

    Södertelge Verkstäder (Sweden) Aircraft

    Hi, as my dear Apophenia corrected my mistake about SW.20,I prefer to open a new topic for it,because it had many unknown aircraft; the Södertelge Verkstäder aircraft list; SW.10 was a licence built Farman HF.22 recce airplane SW.11 was a licence built Farman HF.23 recce airplane SW.12...
  16. hesham

    FVM (Sweden) Aircraft

    Hi, the Flygkompaniets Verkstäder at Malmen was formed in 1917/18,and as my dear Apophenia spoke about some of its airplanes http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,26120.msg266733.html#msg266733 All I know about it; Dronten was a two-seat recce and light bomber biplane S.18...
  17. hesham

    Gallinari Seaplanes ?

    Hi, does anyone know the Gallinari seaplanes of WWI ?,he was Italian designer .
  18. hesham

    Etrich Aircraft

    Hi, Austrian Igo Etrich (1879-1967) was experimented in aeronautics from 1899. After working with engineer Franz Wels he made a tailless glider with backswept wings in 1907. 1909 Etrich "Nurflügel" (Only Wings) tractor monoplane 1909 Etrich Taube (Dove) tractor monoplane 1909 Etrich-Wels...
  19. hesham

    Polish Lesser Known Designers,Civil/Military Prototypes & Projects

    Hi, the designer Feliksa Brodowskiego (Brodowski) made a two-seat biplane fighter Project in 1925,the design was modeled on Breguet XIV aircraft,and called Jupiter, powered by one 400 hp Jupiter engine. http://www.samolotypolskie.pl/samoloty/1432/126/Brodowski-Jupiter
  20. P

    SS Kanguroo Heavy Lift Dock ship 1912

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Kanguroo From reading the description of the ship, the SS Kanguroo (1912) was a dock type heavy lift ship, built initially to transport submarines, but with access to the dock being done by dismantling the bows and rebuilding them after loading. According to the...
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