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Copyright free aircraft plans

A clearinghouse of copyright free aircraft plans NO "pirate" plans will be found here and NO TRADING is allowed. All of the plans are: RELEASED to the public domain by the copyright holder OR the copyright has lapsed OR the copyright holder is NOT defending the copyright. REMEMBER some of these plans are old and outdated. If you want to buld an aircraft JOIN EAA and any discussion groups or forums you can find with information

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WW 1 Knights of the Sky: What Indian RAF PiIot and Flying Ace Indra Lal Roy DFC: Did In World War 1.

WW 1 Knights of the Sky: What Indian RAF Pilot and Flying Ace Indra Lal Roy DFC: Did In World War 1. A young, short life that inspired so many other pilots during WW1 and beyond. Like so many other young men of his time, lost to a senseless war....

12 comments    indian world war one world war 1
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The Boeing Stearman Bi-plane - Reliving the Past on a Summer Day

I have always been an aviation buff. My interest in the airplanes goes way back to the Apollo space program years. I was just 7 years old when we landed on the moon. I remember it well, and like all young kids of that era, I was really into anything...

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World War 1 Flying Aces: ANZAC s who tamed the skies above the trenches in ww1.

World War 1 Flying Aces: ANZACs who tamed the skies above the trenches in WW 1; by Pearldiver. The boys from DownUnder who volunteered to fight for King and Country, in far away places. To an entire generation of young men, army recruiters sold...

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Aircraft wings - Wing platforms and configurations

Wing platforms and types

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Lego Batman Strategy Guide 56: Biplane Blast

In one corner, there appears to be a water tower. Shoot it, and there will be a 1/10 registered on it. As you may of guessed, this is one of ten water towers that have to be blasted before you get a canister, but that isn’t possible here. For...

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A Day at the Carswell AFB Airshow

 On 4-24-2010, hubby and I went to the Carswell AFB Airshow. It was a warm spring day, although a bit windy, but we, as well as a few thousand other people were there.  I hadn't been to an airshow since I...

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World War 2 Scheduled Services

The DC-2 exemplified a generation of airliners which was to set design fashions for the next two decades and beyond. The first, the Ford Tn-motor of 1926, represented a great improvement over the biplanes of...

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World War 2 The First Fighters

A machine was produced that can he considered as the world’s first true fighting aeroplane. This was the Vickers F.B.5. nicknamed the Gun- bus’, which had been designed from the outset for aerial combat on...

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Why is an aeroplane called plane?

If you ask an etymologist, you will be told that the English word 'aeroplane' derives from French, which comes from Greek, meaning 'wandering in the air'. (Wikipedia) 'Aeroplane' is a British term, while 'airplane' is American one. Plane is...

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