Kitset Models

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...

In 1917 the French aircraft manufacturer Société Anonyme des Establissements Nieuport produced a series of new fighters the Nieuport 24, the Nieupo...

In the middle of 1916 the French aircraft manufacturer SPAD delivered its latest fighter to the Western Front, the SPAD S.VII. This airplane matche...

1915 was a very successful year for the Kaiser's aviation. The arrival of the first true fighter, Fokker's E.III Eindecker, enabled the Germans to ...

At the end of 1917 the aircraft manufacturer Pfalz Flugzeugwerke GmbH Speyer am Rhein produced the Roland D.I and D.II under license. Work on the d...

At the beginning of WWI many aircraft manufacturers experimented with the construction of 'pusher' types, in which the propeller was fitted behind ...

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 ...

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...

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...