Model Aircraft

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 ...

In the early thirties of XX century the majority of RAF fighter squadrons were equipped with obsolete Bristol Bulldog and Gloster Gauntlet types. A...

At the end of World War II, wanting to equip their aircraft carrier strike forces with the new superpower weapon, the atomic bomb, the US Navy form...

In 1914, at the beginning of the First World War, German aircraft companies were already working on the creation and use of an ambitious new type o...

The introduction of the new Sopwith Camel fighter in 1917 was a famous event in the history of the Royal Flying Corps - it fast became the R.F.C.'s...

The concept of ground support aircraft was born in 1917 by which time it was evident that the infantry could not win the great trench warfare battl...

Sopwith F.1/3 Comic (Camel Interceptor)When the raids of the German Zeppelins and strategic bombers against the British Isles began, this new milit...

At the end of 1916 the prototype of the Sopwith F1 Camel fighter successfully passed its flight tests and was ordered in quantity for RFC and RNAS ...

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...

Hundreds of types of aeroplane took part in the battles over the fronts of World War One but only two deserved to be called the 'best of the best'....

In the spring of 1940, a group of designers directed by S.Lavochkin, V.Gorbunov and M.Gudkov proposed a new experimental fighter to be built for te...