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The Coventry Ordnance Works (C.O.W.) designed and built in 1915 a small 37 mm cannon capable of firing a 1 pound, and then later 1.5 pound high-explosive shell. Vickers had acquired in the early twenties the rights for this gun and after a proposal to the Air Staff a specification was issued to develop a [...]

In the mid-fifties the British aircraft industry produced a number of operational jet fighters with trans-sonic capabilities like the Hawker Hunter, Gloster Javelin, De Havilland Sea-Vixen and the Vickers-Supermarine Scimitar. During this time, a new generation of supersonic fighters and fighter-bombers was being developed with a number of various prototypes in [...]

When Germany capitulated in May 1945 and German troops left the Netherlands, there was not much left of the national aircraft industry. The Fokker works at Amsterdam-Noord were practically destroyed and any equipment still left was looted by the retreating German forces. Also the Fokker workshop at Schiphol-Airport was practically non-existing by that time. Much [...]

The Dutchman Anthony Fokker played an important role in equipping the German air force during the First World War. His early Eindecker (monoplane) E-types with the first successful synchronized, forward firing machine guns earned such a fearful reputation on the Western Front, that the reconnaissance and bomber aircraft the allied forces were using in the [...]

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 [...]

This plane was originally conceived as “Zmajev razarac broj jedan” and in 1936 Dusan Stankov and Djordje Ducic submitted to the Air Staff general proposal for this plane. A year later prototype of Zmaj R-1 was ordered by Command of Aviation and airplane factory “Zmaj” in Belgrade built this twin engine plane. It was of [...]

Ikarus Orkan was born as a private venture of the two young designers in attempt to create twin engine sleek bomber with low power engines. By the end of 1937 was released most of the prototype documentation and the wooden model was tested in the early 1938 in the wind tunnel in Paris. General Staff [...]

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 [...]