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Mil-8/17 Helicopter

Aircraft Soviet 5 Min Read

In May 1960, Mil conceived a machine to replace the piston-engined Mi-4 Hound. On June 9, 1961, the first Mi-8 Hip prototype, with a single AI-24V turboshaft and four-bladed main rotor system, lifted off for its maiden flight. On September 17, 1962, the Hip B, modified with two TV2-117 1,482-horsepower turboshafts mounted atop the fuselage, and a five-bladed main rotor…

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The Forgotten Air Service I

Parseval-Sigsfeld “Drachenballon” The Kite Balloon    … from the book Balloons and Airships by Lennart Ege “Almost to the end of the nineteenth century the spherical style of free balloon was the one used for military captive balloons. Their drawback was their unsteadiness in the air, for even if only a…

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The Forgotten Air Service II

CaquotType M Observation Balloon Developed in 1916 by Albert Caquot, this design had major advantages over the Parseval-Sigsfeld “Drachenballon” then in use with most of the warring nations and by 1918 it had replaced virtually all of them. The U.S. alone for example, produced over a thousand and the same basic…

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Messerschmitt Bf 110G-4 Nachtjäger

Messerschmitt Bf 110G-4 Nachtjäger by Vincenzo Auletta  https://www.eduard.co/ The following is a letter written in July 1981 to an author of popular aviation publications,  by a former member of the German ‘Nachtjagd’, Oblt. (Dr. Ing.) Rudolf E. Thun, who ended the war as Staffelkapitän of 9./NJG 6, with 7 confirmed…

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Warsaw Airlift I

American Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft leaving Warsaw and heading East after air drops on September 18.(Wisła river visible as well as Wilanów Palace gardens in upper left part of image). Air routes used for the airlift.Black: Allied flights from Italy.Black broken line: Later egress routes used back to Italy.Blue:…

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Warsaw Airlift II

‘Warsaw Return’ David Stiling (AGAvA) Commission of a Halifax of 1586 Squadron based in Brindisi, Italy in August 1944. No. 1586 (Polish Special Duties) Flight was first formed at RAF Derna, in Libya on 4 November 1943, equipped with a mix of Consolidated Liberator lll and Handley Page Halifax II/S…

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MiG-17 in Vietnam

The MiGs encountered in Vietnam came in three varieties: models -17, -19, and -21. The MiG-17 has served in at least twenty fellow-traveling air forces around the world since its operational debut in 1953. It was probably the most numerous aircraft in the NVN inventory, for over half of all…

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Focke Wulf Fw 190D-9 Dora

Arguably, the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 evolved into wartime Germany’s most effective fighter, offering the Luftwaffe…

American Medium Bombers of WWII Part I

Douglas A-20 Havoc Douglas Aircraft developed the Model 7B twin-engine light attack bomber in the…

Spitfire XIVs versus Bf 109Ks

Final Encounter (Spitfire v Messerchmitt) by Michael Turner. Wing Commander J E Johnnie Johnson, Spitfire…

Post-war Spitfire XIV

The final Spitfire variant, the Mk 24, was similar to the Mk 22 except that…