Sea Hawk, the aftermath
The story of the Hawker P.1052 and P.1081 Introduction: The P.1052 VX272 during the initial flight phase in bare metal...
Nico
Born: 21.05.1946
Nationality: Dutch
Flying experience: gliders only; more than 1100 starts or 215 hours since 1991 on the following types:
two-seaters: Schleicher ASK-13, Schleicher ASK-21, Grob Twin Astir Single seaters: Schleicher K-8c, PZL-Bielsko SZD-51-1 Junior, Rolladen-Schneider LS-4b, Pilatus B4-PC-11, Schleicher ASK-23 Interest: aircraft built as prototype or in small numbers only Photos: more than 10,000 world-wide covering the period 1930 up to now Archive: technical info and 3-view drawings on most types; more than 850 books on aviation.
Seahawk – the first Hawker jet fighter
Hawker Sea Hawk Mk.100 Kriegsmarine Introduction: As early as 1944 Hawker's design bureau, headed by Sidney Camm, started with a...
Ryan FR-1/FR-4 Fireball
A rare colour shot of the XFR-1 Fireball prototype with its original small tail Introduction With the arrival of the...
Nakajima J9Y-1 Kikka
The first Kikka prototype before its first flight Introduction: The first Japanese jet plane was a design from the Nakajima...
The lost Battle!
Battle prototype K4303 in flight fitted with a propeller spinner. The spinner was soon removed and all next Battles flew...
British Strange Apparatus
Introduction: As we have seen in yhe articles on Russian and French aviation designers sometimes created contraptions that were quite...
French Strange Apparatus
Introduction: French aircraft designers have by some people been regarded as 'the second best in the World'. Except for aircraft...
German Strange Apparatus
Germany always was a leading nation in the development of aircraft types and in aerodynamic sciences. They had some very...
Russian jet plane landed in the Netherlands…….not quite!
Russian jet plane landed in the Netherlands.......not quite! At the end of March 1966 Lt. Westerveld of the Passengers and...
