world war i

The LVG was ordered in 1917 to develop a "Großflugzeug" (large aircraft) in tri-plane configuration, because it was hoped to increase climbing performance and maximum ceiling this way. The aircraft was finished just shortly before the armistice and the company was thinking about a civil use...

Finnish Air Force Aircraft Codes - Two-Letter System I've been trying to compile a complete list of Finnish 2-letter aircraft codes. No doubt I'm reinventing the wheel and there's a full listing out there somewhere ... but I haven't been able to find it. The 2-letter system seems to be the...

Leopold Bauer worked for the Jacob Lohner & Co aircraft firm until the end of World War One. The firm was one of the first aircraft companies in Austria-Hungary, which began with the production of aircraft propellers. Starting in 1912 a propeller construction division was created, which...

Hi, we spoke before about many Fiat projects,but I open this topic to continue talking about more Fiat Projects. the G.4 was a two seat light aircraft project,powered by one 760 hp Fiat A.6 R engine,I hope we get a more unknown Fiat G series projects...

Here are some summary notes on the Scottish Company Beardmore who's aircraft manufacturing activities began in 1913 and ended in the 1920's. Beardmore-D.F.W. Round Britain Racer In 1913 William Beardmore and Company took over the building rights in Britain for the German Deutsche Flugzeug Werke...

I'll start off the topic with this: Divers find First World War "Mystery Ship" which ambushed submarine (Daily Telegraph)

Aircraft were already launched from airships during WW I, when the British airship R.23 was used for trials with two Sopwith Camel fighters. But the first practical design, that could launch AND recover more than one aircraft, was the USN ZRS-4 Akron, later followed by the ZRS-5 Macon. In...

After WW I Schütte-Lanz, led by Prof. Schütte tried to get into the civil airship business by designing Trans-Atlantic airships. SL 101 "Atlantic" would have had a volume of 95,000 cbm, whereas SL 102 "Panamerica" would have been considerble bigger with 205,000 cbm. Apart from the wartime...

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Until the early 1920s, aircraft development was based mainly on the intuition of designers. As for aerodynamics, this science was in its infancy. Suffice it to say that the concept of inductive resistance was not known at that time, which led to the emergence of "flying monsters" with three...

Could anyone provide me data and informations about fixed torpedo tubes for shore defence?I known that they saw action during WWII.In one case the German heavy cruiser "Blucher" sunk by two 533 mm torpedoes fired from an Norwegian shore torpedo launcher during German invasion in Norway.Do they...

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...

. I don't know where this really belongs (if at all) anyway, out of interest, Air Britain have (?) released a new book on RAF unmanned aircraft / target drones / recon drones called "Sitting Ducks and Peeping Toms" - I do NOT know if any projected models are included :-...

Aeromarine (nd) Boland's first, unsuccessful plane (1909, 1 built) B two-place pusher motor; canard stabilizers with twin rudders between the wingtips (1910, 1 built) (nd) Aeromarine's first official type, Boland's single-seat canard pusher flying boat (1914, 1 built) (nd) military...

Hi all, two pics of an early german UAV: the Argus As-292.

The monoplane presented in 1914 has been built in 1918. With a propeller in the middle of the fuselage. The picture seems on the Web already but the link does not work for me.

Hi, V.14 Binz was float plane of 1922. V.15 Sellin was flying boat with enclosed cabin for passengers. V.16 was an airliner biplane. V.17 was float plane and powered by Benz engine. V.23 Anklam was a low-wing monoplane powered by one Siemens Sh 4 engine,a high wing also planned. V.25...

Yes I know once again from NHHC Photo

This weapon has a very long history and participated in and failed multiple trials through 1908 to the early 1920s. it started life as a self loading rifle and appears to have evolved into a light machine gun. However the closes it got to entering service was 1918. After numerable trials a...

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