Aircraft
Wellington Bomber in Service
On 15 August 1936, however, the Air Ministry had placed an order for 180 Wellington Mk Is to Specification B. 29/36. These were required to have a redesigned and slightly more angular fuselage, a revised tail unit, and hydraulically operated Vickers nose, ventral and tail turrets. The first production Wellington Mk I was flown on 23 December 1937, powered by…
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MiG-23: A Ferrari leaving Fords behind
The Soviet-designed fighters were agile, too. In an engagement, the enemy’s first turn would be eye-watering—unless, that is, the model in question was a MiG-23. Then, there typically was no turn at all. The MiG-23 would simply tear away so fast that it seemed like a Ferrari leaving Fords behind.…
Puma Helicopter
Puma In 1962, the French Army issued a requirement for a French-produced tactical helicopter that could transport twenty soldiers and perform a variety of cargo-carrying duties. The SA 330 Puma, a completely new design, resulted. In 1963, with French government funding, the design process began; the first prototype flew in…
Euler-Werke, Frankfurt-am-Main
August Euler & His Airplanes 1908 – 1920 Volume 1: A Centennial Perspective on Great War Airplanes (Great War Aviation Centennial Series) Paperback – October 23, 2018 by Michael DĂĽsing (Author), Dr. Hannes Täger (Translator) The first German manufacturer of aircraft appeared in 1908 in a field near Darmstadt. The…
Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke GmbHÂ (DFW)
DFW C.V (LVG) Serial: W Western Front, 1917. Note: colours are probable, they can be for example green. DFW R-I Unit: RFA 500 Serial: R11/15 Baltic area, April-September 1917. Only single aircraft was built. In the beginning of Summer 1917 in went to Easter Front to Alt-Auz airfield. On 13…
Mirage IIICJ No. [7]68
MIRAGE IIICJ, No.768, Avraham Salmon, 119th Tayeset, Tel Nof Air Base, Six Day War, 1968 On this aircraft, pilots of 119th Tayeset gained a total of eleven kills between 1967 and 1970. Among them was Abraham Salmon, Israel’s second most successful fighter ace with 14.5 kills to his credit, four…
Japanese Eagles against American Cobras
P-39/P-400 Airacobra – Opponents over New Guinea. Martin Ferkl With the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, the Pacific war began. In conjunction with that attack, Japanese invasion forces also turned their attention to the shores of the Philippines and Indochina. The American and British forces were caught…