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67The 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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61Why 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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72World One War: Sopwith 'Pup'
Pup in flight, photographed in 1917 The Shuttleworth Collection's Pup in flight A replica Sopwith 1 Strutter which was the forerunner to the Sopwith 'Pup'. The strutter made the first flat-top Aircraft Carrier Landing in World War One Sopwith Pup...
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67World One War: Germany's MG 08
Maxim MG08 Left-side view German MG08 Machine Gun Right-side view German Stormtrooper using a MG08 in the trenches MG08-15 which was extensively used by German infantry from 1917-1918 Turkish soldiers with some of them armed with MG08s. Notice the...
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61World One War: The First Naval Air Raid
The Japanese seaplane carrier Wakamiya, photographed 15th November 1924. The Wakamiya was the first ship to launch a Naval Air Raid German Map of Tsingtao, 1912 German Marines in Front Line Trenches during the Siege of Tsingtao, 1914 Japanese...
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53Flying a De Haviland Tiger Moth
I recently had the opportunity to fly an old De Haviland Tiger Moth, the old WWI biplane. Not quite at the pace of the computer, but it’s interesting to see how the aircraft has developed so quickly...
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50World 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 the principle that if it was...
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62World War 2 Giant Bombers
Although the fighters were best-known to the public, and made the greatest advances in perfor- mance, there were other types of aircraft operating over the front that proved the real workhorses of the war. Whereas the early years from 1914 had...
0 comments63World 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 the time, combining a high-set...
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65history of the aeroplane - beginnings of public interest
The year 1910 witnessed a burgeoning of public interest in aviation, fostered by organised races, meetings and competitive flying. Successful copies of the leading designs were produced in every continent and flown on all manner of...
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