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The idea of a convertiplane is not new. A combination of a helicopter and a fixed-wing aircraft has been tried several times. However, such a convertiplane not only combines the advantages of both separate types, but also the disadvantages like higher costs, lower speed and range and less capacity! In spite of this a British [...]

ILA stands for ‘Internationale Luftfahrt Austellung’ (International Aviation Display) and is a one-week event held every two years. It was held from 27 May until 1 June 2008.

B-25 Mitchell in Red Bull markings
The last two days were used as Public Days with an airshow programme. At earlier years the ILA was at Hanover, but after [...]

Set of walk around images of the Locheed F-104G Starfighter preserved at Lelystad. The F-104G version sold well amongst NATO air forces, where these high-speed fighter-bomber variants continued in service with most operators until the late 1980s. 1,122 aircraft of the main version produced as multi-role fighter bombers. Manufactured by Lockheed, and under license by [...]

Air show held at Lelystad 14. July 2007. Images bellow show following subjects:

Lelystad
Fairchild Argus, Fokker S-11 from ‘Fokker-Four’ display team, Fokker D-VII replica, Stearman biplane based on Lelystad but no participator of fly-in, Belgian Piper Super Cub, Super Cub from Belgium with KLu markings, Dutch civil registered Super Cub in N.E.I. colours, one of the [...]

The Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace (The Museum of Air and Space) is a French museum, located in the south-eastern edge of Le Bourget Airport, which is 10 km north of Paris. It was created in 1919 from a proposition of Albert Caquot (1881-1976). Occupying over 150,000 square meters of land and hangars, it [...]

German aircraft manufacturers have always been on the lead of new developments since the birth of aviation. They already used reliable and seaworthy seaplanes during the First World War. In their operations over the North Sea area they were in most cases superior in agility and speed when compared with their slow an sluggish seaplane [...]

Fokker designs:
Fokker W.1
The first flying boat designed under the leadership of Anthony Fokker was the W.1. It was built in Germany in 1913 before the outbreak of the First World War as a Schneider Cup contender. It only made a few hops and crashed already during the first flight tests.
The W.1 was powered by a [...]

Tweedekker fly in attract biplanes in flying condition from all of the world but as a special guest there is also some of monoplanes. This biplane fly-in was held on 15 and 16 July 2006. It is now an annual event organized by the Aviodrome Museum and as we see from the pictures the event is [...]

At first glance, this airplane can easily be mistaken for a modified version of the Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien fighter. In fact, it was no fighter a all, but a high-speed research plane to investigate laminar profile wings with a very high wing-loading. It was also the intention to break the world speed record. Initiated before [...]

Already shortly after the armistice of 1940, the French Morane Saulnier design department, housed at Tarbes-Ossun in the South-West part of non-occupied France started with the design and development of an advanced fighter trainer. Chief engineer Gaultier designed this new trainer as the MS.470. However, work progressed at a slow pace and the first flight [...]

After the capitulation of Germany in 1945, US forces captured large amounts of documents on all types of new aeronautical developments. One of these which were tested extensively by German scientists was the swept wing configuration. To test such a configuration at low speeds, Bell received from the U.S. naval air service a contract for [...]