Kitset Models

In 1928, the American automobile corporation Ford began its expansion into the European market, and one of their most promising partners was German...

In the early 1930s, a small aircraft manufacturer, the Stearman Aircraft Corporation, proposed its own design for a competition announced by the US...

In the early 1930s, a small aircraft manufacturer, the Stearman Aircraft Corporation, proposed its own design for a competition announced by the US...

Aircraft in WWI often became obsolete, though having barely taken to the air. The fast pace of invention in aircraft design often led to nothing, a...

Aircraft in WWI often became obsolete, though having barely taken to the air. The fast pace of invention in aircraft design often led to nothing, a...

In the mid-1930s, Germany began a program of rapid rearmament with the latest types of military equipment. This was especially true in aviation, as...

Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke, the German aircraft manufacturing company, began the development of a single seat biplane fighter on their own initiat...

The practice of converting airplanes with standard wheeled undercarriage into floatplanes, to permit them to touch down on the surfaces of lakes an...

Owards the end of the 1920's American aviation enthusiast Walter Beech created his own aircraft engineering company, the Beech Aircraft Corporation...

After the end of World War I, large numbers of aircraft were removed from armed service and scrapped, as the concept of a new world 'without wars a...

With the onset of large-scale hostilities in early 1915, the leadership of the British Army understood very well that the transportation of heavy w...

Although the famous British Rolls-Royce Armoured Car was built during WW I, it was destined to have a long life and service career.At the beginning...

A history of this armored car would require a great many pages, devoted to its lengthy and varied service in the British armed services; and it is ...

From its start in the summer of 1914, the demands of the First World War provided the impetus for the development of the latest developments and te...

A history of this armored car would require a great many pages, devoted to its lengthy and varied service in the British armed services; and it is ...

In 1940 the German automobile builder Vomag, which made trucks and staff buses for the needs of the Wehrmacht, received an order from the military ...

In early 1943 a ten-tube multiple rocket firing system, the Nebelwerfer 41, designed by Rudolf Nebel, was mounted on the chassis of the well-known ...

The first few months of fighting in 1914 gave rise to the picture we have now, that the war, only recently begun, would not just be long and exhaus...

The First World War is remembered as a new type of war, in which such technological developments as the tank and the aircraft were used for the fir...

On the night of July 14th, 1941 less than a month after the beginning of the Eastern Campaign near the Soviet city of Orsha, German troops felt the...

In 1938 the Germany Ministry of Armament issued a technical order to Krupp and Rheinmetall for the production of a 75mm anti-tank gun. As a result ...

The heavy eight wheeled armored car, the Sd.Kfz.234/2 «Puma», was one of the finest technical developments of World War II. Apart from the basic mo...

The development of armored cars in Germany began in the late 1920s. In the mid-1930s, when Adolf Hitler brought the Nazis to power, the German army...

In 1916, the French SPAD aircraft company produced one of the most successful fighters of the First World War, SPAD VIIc1, which established for it...