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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...

One of Germany's biggest companies, Siemens Schuckert Werke was already world renowned at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, first of all in i...

At the beginning of 1916 the British aircraft manufacturer Sopwith produced a very successful single-seat fighter, enshrined in the history of avia...

The appearance of the Albatros D.I and D.I? fighters in 1916 was a very important technical breakthrough in the history of the development of Germa...

The history of the most successful British fighter of the First World War began in 1916, when the Royal Aircraft Factory's talented engineers, H.P....

Albatros D.III The Albatros D.I and Albatros D.II, introduced in 1916, were two of the best planes of their time. They had very good flying charact...

The story of the most famous plane of the First World War, the Fokker Dr.1, outstanding creation of the famous and talented Dutch designer Antony F...

The aircraft builder SPAD was founded in 1911 by Armand Deperdussin. On the eve of WWI it was bankrupted; however, the manufacturer was purchased b...

During the middle of 1917 the principal German fighters, the Albatros D.III and D.V, lost their superiority in the skies of the Western Front, and ...

One of the most successful British fighters of WWI, the S.E.5a was built in 1917 under the direction of the Royal Aircraft Factory's leading design...

In the middle of 1917 the tide of battle in the skies over the Western Front turned again, and not in Germany's favor. Albatros and Pfalz fighters ...

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...

Beechcraft D17S StaggerwingAfter establishing his own aircraft-building company in 1932 Walter Beech decided to create a small commercial plane, wh...

At the end of the 1920's, when the United States was ailing from the Great Depression, the numerous air shows were a rare pastime for many people w...

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...

The rapid development of aviation during the First World War was mainly aimed at improving the principal characteristics of aircraft speed, maneuve...

At the beginning of WWI two-seater airplanes were built in accordance with the "orthodox" layout, in which the pilot had a position in the rear sea...

In the mid-30s of the twentieth century, after Adolf Hitler came to power, began a significant withdrawal from the principles of the Versailles Agr...

In 1914, immediately after the beginning of World War I, it became obvious that the British Army needed to develop an aviation component. Aircraft ...

The R.A.F. BE2c was the principal two-seat reconnaissance plane of the Royal Flying Corps, and its specifications seemed sufficient for the militar...

Just after a gain of "Fighter Competition"in February 1918 by Fokker V11 prototype, Inspectorate of Aviations Troops (Idflieg) immediately ordered ...