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...
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Articles from history of 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...
Sikorsky XR-4
Sikorsky R-4 Hoverfly was the first series produced US helicopter. It was result of contract with US Army and XR-4...
