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The Canadair CT-133 is the result of a 1951 contract to build T-33 Shooting Star Trainers for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). The powerplant would be a Rolls-Royce Nene 10 turbojet instead of the Allison J33 used by Lockheed in the production of the original T-33. A project designation of CL-30 was given by Canadair and the name was changed to Silver Star. The appearance of the CT-133 is very distinctive due to the large fuel tanks usually carried on each wingtip.
A total of 656 CT-133 aircraft were built by Canadair.
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The Canadair CL-84 "Dynavert", designated by the Canadian Forces as the CX-131, was a V/STOL turbine tiltwing monoplane designed and manufactured by Canadairbetween 1964 and 1972. Only four of these experimental aircraft were built with three entering flight testing. Two of the CL-84s crashed due to mechanical failures, but no loss of life occurred as a result of these accidents. Despite the fact that the CL-84 was very successful in the experimental and operational trials carried out between 1972 and 1974, no production contracts resulted.
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The SEPECAT Jaguar is an Anglo-French jet ground attack aircraft, originally used by the British Royal Air Force and the French Armée de l'Air in the close air support and nuclear strike role, and still in service with several export customers, notably the Indian Air Force and the Royal Air Force of Oman.
Originally conceived in the 1960s as jet trainer with a light ground attack capability, the requirement for the aircraft soon changed to include supersonic performance, reconnaissance and tactical nuclear strike roles. A carrier-based variant was also planned for French service, but this was cancelled in favour of the cheaper Dassault Super Étendard. The airframes were manufactured by SEPECAT (Société Européenne de Production de l'avion Ecole de Combat et d'Appui Tactique), a joint venture between Breguet and the British Aircraft Corporation, one of the first major joint-Anglo-French military aircraft programs.
The Jaguar was successfully exported to India, Oman, Ecuador and Nigeria. With various airforces, the Jaguar was used in numerous conflicts and military operations in Mauritania, Chad, Iraq, Bosnia, and Pakistan, as well as providing a ready nuclear delivery platform for Britain, France, and India throughout the latter half of the Cold War and beyond. In the Gulf War, the Jaguar was praised for its reliability and was a valuable coalition resource. The aircraft served with the Armée de l'Air as the main strike/attack aircraft until 1 July 2005, and with the Royal Air Force until the end of April 2007.
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Heinkel was established at Warnemünde in 1922, after the restrictions on German aviation imposed by the Treaty of Versailles were relaxed. The company's first great success was the design of the Heinkel He 70 Blitz high-speed mail plane and airliner for Deutsche Luft Hansa in 1932, which broke a number of air speed records for its class. It was followed by the two-engine Heinkel He 111 Doppel-Blitz, which became a mainstay of the Luftwaffe during World War II as a bomber. Heinkel's most important designers at this point were the twin Günter brothers, Siegfried and Walter, and Heinrich Hertel. The firm's headquarters was in Rostock, with an additional "Heinkel-Sud" facility in Schwechat, Austria, after the Anschluss in 1938.
The Heinkel company is most closely associated with aircraft used by the Luftwaffe during World War II. This began with the adaptation of the He 70 and, in particular, the He 111, to be used as bombers. Heinkel also provided the Luftwaffe's only operational heavy bomber, the Heinkel He 177, although this was never deployed in significant numbers. The German Luftwaffe equipped both of these bombers with the Z-Gerät, Y-Gerät, and Knickebein, developed by Johannes Plendl, and thus they were among the first aircraft to feature advanced night navigation devices, common in all commercial airplanes today.
Heinkel was less successful in selling fighter designs — before the war, the Heinkel He 112 had been rejected in favour of the Messerschmitt Bf 109, and Heinkel's attempt to top Messerschmitt's design with the Heinkel He 100 failed due to political interference within the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM — Reich Aviation Ministry). The company also provided the Luftwaffe with an outstanding night fighter, the Heinkel He 219, which also suffered from politics and was produced only in limited numbers.
From 1941 until the end of the war, the company was merged with engine manufacturer Hirth to form Heinkel-Hirth, giving the company the capability of manufacturing its own powerplants.
The Heinkel name was also behind pioneering work in jet engine and rocket development. In 1939, flown by Erich Warsitz, the Heinkel He 176 and Heinkel He 178 became the first aircraft to fly under liquid-fuel rocket and turbojet power respectively, and Heinkel was the first to develop a jet fighter to prototype stage, the Heinkel He 280. This latter aircraft never reached production however, since the RLM wanted Heinkel to concentrate on bomber production and instead promoted the development of the rival Messerschmitt Me 262. Very late in the war, a Heinkel jet fighter finally took to the air as the Heinkel He 162, but it had barely entered service at the time of Germany's surrender.
Following the war, Heinkel was prohibited from manufacturing aircraft and instead built bicycles, motor scooters (see below), and the Heinkel microcar. The company eventually returned to aircraft in the mid 1950s, licence building F-104 Starfighters for the West German Luftwaffe. In 1965, the company was absorbed by Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke (VFW), which was in turn absorbed by Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm in 1980.
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The Heinkel He 177 Greif (Griffin) was the only operational long-range bomber to be operated by the Luftwaffe. Starting its existence as Germany's first purpose-built heavy bomber just before the war, and built in large numbers during World War II, it was also mistakenly tasked, right from its beginnings, to perform a milder version of the precision dive bombing the Junkers Ju 87 had pioneered during the Spanish Civil War. This requirement for a dive-bombing capability in such a large aircraft resulted in a design possessing considerably lower drag than any other "four-engined" heavy bomber of its time, in order to be able to perform the task in any measure, resulting in many major deficiencies being exposed in its general design, and hindering its widespread adoption for strategic bombing. Luftwaffe aircrew nicknamed it the Luftwaffenfeuerzeug (Luftwaffe's lighter) or the "Flaming Coffin" due to the serious engine problems on initial versions of the aircraft. When these problems were later rectified, the type was successful, but it could not be deployed in large numbers due to Germany's deteriorating situation in the war.
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At the height of the Great Depression, aircraft executive Walter H. Beech and airplane designer T. A. "Ted" Wells joined forces to collaborate on a project many considered foolhardy — a large, powerful, and fast biplane built specifically for the business executive. The Beechcraft Model 17, popularly known as the "Staggerwing" was first flown on November 4, 1932, setting the standard for private passenger airplanes for many years to come
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The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engine heavy bomber aircraft developed in the 1930s for the then United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). Competing against Douglas and Martin for a contract to build 200 bombers, the Boeing entry outperformed both competitors and more than met the Air Corps' expectations. Although Boeing lost the contract because the prototype crashed, the Air Corps was so impressed with Boeing's design that they ordered 13 more B-17s for further evaluation. From its introduction in 1938, the B-17 Flying Fortress evolved through numerous design advances.
The B-17 was primarily employed by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in the daylight precision strategic bombing campaign of World War II against German industrial and military targets. The United States Eighth Air Force based at many airfields in southern England, such as Thorpe Abbotts airfield and the Fifteenth Air Force based in Italy - with many units stationed at the existing bases surrounding Foggia - complemented the RAF Bomber Command's nighttime area bombing in Operation Pointblank to help secure air superiority over the cities, factories and battlefields of Western Europe in preparation for Operation Overlord. The B-17 also participated to a lesser extent in the War in the Pacific where it conducted raids against Japanese shipping and airfields.
From its pre-war inception, the USAAC (later USAAF) touted the aircraft as a strategic weapon; it was a potent, high-flying, long-range bomber that was able to defend itself, and to return home despite extensive battle damage. It quickly took on mythic proportions, and widely circulated stories and photos of B-17s surviving battle damage increased its iconic status. With a service ceiling greater than any of its Allied contemporaries, the B-17 established itself as an effective weapons system, dropping more bombs than any other U.S. aircraft in World War II. Of the 1.5 million metric tons of bombs dropped on Germany and its occupied territories by U.S. aircraft, 640,000 tons were dropped from B-17s
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The B-29 Superfortress is a four-engine propeller-driven heavy bomber designed by Boeing that was flown primarily by the United States in late-World War II and through the Korean War. The B-29 was one of the largest aircraft to see service during World War II. A very advanced bomber for this time period, it included features such as a pressurized cabin, an electronic fire-control system, and remote-controlled machine-gun turrets. The name "Superfortress" was derived from that of its well-known predecessor, the B-17 Flying Fortress. Though the B-29 was designed as a high-altitude daytime bomber, in practice it actually flew more low-altitude nighttime incendiary bombing missions. It was the primary aircraft in the American firebombing campaign against the Empire of Japan in the final months of World War II, and carried out the atomic bombings that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Unlike many other World War II-era bombers, the B-29 remained in service long after the war ended, with a few even being employed as flying television transmitters for the Stratovision company.
The B-29 served in various roles throughout the 1950s. The Royal Air Force flew the B-29 and used the name Washington for the type, replacing them in 1953 with the Canberra jet bomber, and the Soviet Union produced an unlicensed reverse-engineered copy as the Tupolev Tu-4. The B-29 was the progenitor of a series of Boeing-built bombers, transports, tankers, reconnaissance aircraft and trainers including the B-50 Superfortress (the first aircraft to fly around the world non-stop) which was essentially a re-engined B-29. The type was finally retired in the early 1960s, with 3,970 aircraft in all built. While dozens of B-29s have survived through today as static displays, only one remains on active flying status.
A transport derived from the B-29 was the C-97, first flown in 1944, followed by its commercial airliner variant, the Boeing Model 377 Stratocruiser in 1947. This bomber-to-airliner derivation was similar to the B-17/Model 307 evolution. The tanker variant of the B-29 was introduced in 1948 as the KB-29, followed by the Model 377-derivative KC-97 introduced in 1950. Later jet-powered models from Boeing carried on the lineage, including the B-47 Stratojet and B-52 Stratofortress bombers, as well as the "Dash 80", from which today's modern airliners are evolved. A heavily modified line of outsized-cargo variants of the B-29-derived Stratocruiser is the Guppy/Mini Guppy/Super Guppy which remain in service today with operators such as NASA.
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The Martin B-26 Marauder was a World War II twin-engine medium bomber built by the Glenn L. Martin Company. First used in the Pacific Theater in early 1942, it was also used in the Mediterranean Theater and in Western Europe.
After entering service with the U.S. Army, the aircraft received the reputation of a "Widowmaker" due to the early models' high rate of accidents during takeoff and landings. The Marauder had to be flown by exact airspeeds, particularly on final approach and when one engine was out. The 150 mph (241 km/h) speed on short final was intimidating to pilots who were used to much slower speeds, and whenever they slowed down below what the manual stated, the aircraft would stall and crash.
The B-26 became a safer aircraft once crews were re-trained and after aerodynamics modifications (increase of wing span and incidence, to give better take off performance, and a larger fin and rudder). After aerodynamic and design changes, the aircraft distinguished itself as "the chief bombardment weapon on the Western Front" according to a United States Army Air Forces dispatch from 1946.
The Marauder ended World War II with the lowest loss rate of any USAAF bomber.
A total of 5,288 were produced between February 1941 and March 1945; 522 of these were flown by the Royal Air Force and the South African Air Force. By the time the United States Air Force was created as an independent service separate from the Army in 1947, all Martin B-26s had been retired from US service.
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A-36 Apache Article Count: 3
A-5 Vigilante Article Count: 10
AJ-1 Savage Article Count: 8
B-25 Mitchell Article Count: 21
B-45 Tornado Article Count: 10
F-100 Super Sabre Article Count: 21
F-108 Rapier Article Count: 9
F-82 Twin Mustang Article Count: 1
F-86 Sabre Article Count: 27
For the Canadair Sabre see: http://www.avialogs.com/index.php/itemlist/category/1338-sabre.html
FJ Fury Article Count: 14
P-51 Mustang - Maintenance TO Article Count: 126
T-2 Buckeye Article Count: 6
T-28 Trojan Article Count: 10
T-6 and SNJ Article Count: 35
X-15 Article Count: 3
XB-70 Article Count: 22
YF-93 Article Count: 2
T-39 Sabreliner Article Count: 8
P-51A Mustang Article Count: 5
P-51B & C Mustang Article Count: 4
P-51D & K Mustang Article Count: 12
P-51H Mustang Article Count: 10
P-51 Mustang (other variants) Article Count: 1
Northrop Article Count: 0
F-20 Tigershark Article Count: 1
F-5 Tiger II Article Count: 7
F-89 Scorpion Article Count: 19
P-61 Black Widow Article Count: 2
T-38 Talon Article Count: 7
X-4 Article Count: 1
XB-35 Article Count: 3
YB-49 and YB-35 Article Count: 10
YF-23 Article Count: 1
Piasecki Article Count: 0
H-16 Article Count: 1
H-21 Shawnee Article Count: 8
H-25 Retriever Article Count: 7
HRP Rescuer Article Count: 1
Piper Article Count: 0
J-3 Cub Article Count: 7
J-5 Cub Cruiser Article Count: 2
Pa-14 Family Cruiser Article Count: 1
Pa-18, L-18 & L-21 Super Cub Article Count: 12
Pa-22 Tripacer Article Count: 1
Pa-23 Aztec Article Count: 2
Pa-25 Pawnee Article Count: 1
Pa-28 Article Count: 10
Pa-32 Saratoga Article Count: 2
Pa-34 Seneca Article Count: 3
Pa-44 Seminole Article Count: 1
Pa-46 Malibu Article Count: 2
Rans Article Count: 0
S-12 Airaile Article Count: 1
Republic Article Count: 0
F-105 Thunderchief Article Count: 28
F-84 Thunderjet, Thunderflash & Thunderstreak Article Count: 17
P-43 Lancer Article Count: 1
P-47 Thunderbolt Article Count: 11
RC-3 Article Count: 7
XF-103 Article Count: 7
Rockwell Article Count: 0
Ryan Article Count: 0
FR Fireball Article Count: 1
Navion Article Count: 3
Sikorsky Article Count: 0
CH-53 Article Count: 2
H-19 Article Count: 1
S-48 Article Count: 1
S-56 Mojave Article Count: 1
S-58 Article Count: 7
S-61 Sea King Article Count: 8
UH-60 Black Hawk Article Count: 6
XH-39 Article Count: 1
HH-52 Seaguard Article Count: 2
R-5, H-5 & HO2S Article Count: 1
S-38 Article Count: 1
Spartan Article Count: 1
Stinson Article Count: 0
The Stinson Aircraft Company was founded in Dayton, Ohio, in 1920 by aviator Edward “Eddie” Stinson, brother to Katherine Stinson. After five years of business ventures, Stinson made Detroit, Michigan the focus for his future flying endeavors. Stinson found Detroit's business community receptive to his plans. A group of local businessmen — the Detroit Board of Commerce's Aviation Committee — supported Stinson's plans to establish the Stinson Aircraft Syndicate in 1925 at a site southwest of Detroit, where today's Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport is located, and provided $25,000 to develop a new monoplane; the SM-1 Detroiter made its first flight on January 25, 1926, and became an overnight success that enabled Stinson to quickly assemble $150,000 in public capital to incorporate the Stinson Aircraft Corporation on May 4, 1926. Always an aviator at heart, Eddie Stinson was still flying as a stunt pilot, earning $100,000 a year for his efforts — a huge sum in those days. Stinson Aircraft Corporation sold 10 SM-1 Detroiters in 1926. Business was steadily increasing, and Stinson delivered 121 aircraft in 1929.
Automobile mogul Errett Lobban (E.L.) Cord acquired 60 percent of Stinson's stock in September 1929, and his Cord Corporation provided additional investment capital to permit Stinson to sell its aircraft at a competitive price while still pursuing new designs. At the height of the Depression in 1930, Stinson offered six aircraft models, ranging from the four-seat Junior to the Stinson 6000 trimotor airliner.
Eddie Stinson did not live to enjoy the success of his company. He died in an air crash in Chicago, Illinois on January 26, 1932, while on a sales trip. At the time of his death at age 38, Stinson had acquired more than 16,000 hours of flight time — more than any other pilot at the time.
The Stinson name did not last much past the end of World War II. Eddie Stinson's death accelerated the assimilation of Stinson Aircraft Corporation into larger corporate entities: first by Cord Corporation, then by Aviation Corporation (AVCO), and later by Consolidated Vultee.[1] By 1950 the Stinson company was sold to the Piper Aircraft Corporation, which continued to produce 108s for a limited time. Piper transformed an original Stinson design (the "Twin Stinson") into the successful Piper Apache, the world's first general aviation all-metal twin engine modern aircraft.
L-13 Article Count: 2
L-5 Sentinel Article Count: 2
Model 108 Article Count: 2
Reliant Article Count: 4
The Reliant is a three-place high-wing fixed tailwheel land monoplane powered with a variety of radial engines.
1,327 Reliants of all types were made from 1933 to 1941, in different models, from SR-1 to SR-10. The final commercial model, the Stinson Reliant SR-10, was introduced in 1938. A militarized version was first flown in February 1942 and remained in production through several additional versions (all externally identical) until late 1943 for the US and British armed forces.[citation needed]
Reliant production can be broken into two distinct types - the straight wing Reliants (all models up to SR-6) and the gull wing Reliants (all models from SR-7 and after including the militarized V-77/AT-19) with there being little in common between the two groups of types. The straight wing Reliant had a wing of constant chord and thickness which was supported by two struts each side with additional bracing struts. In contrast the taper wing Reliant had the broadest chord and thickness of the wing at mid span, with the outer wing trailing edge heavily angled forward and a rounded cutout on the leading edge root, all supported by a single strut. The taper wing had a significant step up between the fuselage and the wing, and the changes in wing thickness gave it a distinct gull appearance from the front
Vought Article Count: 0
F4U Corsair Article Count: 16
F7U Cutlass Article Count: 7
F-8 Crusader Article Count: 28
SB2U Vindicator Article Count: 1
A-7 Corsair II Article Count: 21
OS2U Kingfisher Article Count: 1
Vultee Article Count: 0
A-35 Vengeance Article Count: 1
BT-13 Valiant Article Count: 9
Zivko Aeronautics Article Count: 0
Edge 540 Article Count: 1
Stearman Aircraft Article Count: 1
Curtiss-Wright Article Count: 0
CW-12 Sport Trainer Article Count: 1
Pitcairn Article Count: 0
Cabin Autogiro Article Count: 1
Naval Aircraft Factory Article Count: 0
N3N Canary Article Count: 3
Taylorcraft Article Count: 0
L-2 Grasshopper Article Count: 4
Waco Article Count: 0
CG-4A glider - Hadrian Article Count: 4
Porterfield Article Count: 1
Great Lakes Article Count: 1
Globe Aircraft Corporation Article Count: 0
Swift Article Count: 2
Culver aircraft Article Count: 0
Cadet and PQ-8 Article Count: 2
Buhl Aircraft Company Article Count: 1
Mohawk Aircraft Article Count: 2
Star aircraft Article Count: 1
Poland Article Count: 0
PZL Article Count: 0
M-28 Article Count: 1
P-35 Wilga Article Count: 3
P-37 Los Article Count: 1
W-3 Article Count: 1
TS-11 Iskra Article Count: 1
PZL Bielsko Article Count: 0
SZD 48 Jantar Article Count: 1
SZD 50-3 Article Count: 1
SZD 51-1 Junior Article Count: 1
SZD 55-1 Article Count: 1
PZL Krosno Article Count: 0
KR-03 Puchatek Article Count: 1
PZL Swidnik Article Count: 0
PW-5 Smyk Article Count: 1
Margański & Mysłowski Article Count: 0
MDM-1 Fox Article Count: 1
South Africa Article Count: 0
Slick Aircraft Article Count: 0
Flying Machine Article Count: 0
FM-250 Vampire Article Count: 1
Ukraine Article Count: 0
Antonov (Ukraine) Article Count: 0
UK Article Count: 0
Auster Article Count: 1
Model 6 Article Count: 1
Aiglet Article Count: 1
AOP9 Article Count: 1
J/1 Autocrat Article Count: 1
Avro Article Count: 0
Beagle Aircraft Article Count: 0
A 61 Article Count: 1
Blackburn Aircraft Article Count: 0
Bristol Aeroplane Company Article Count: 0
Beaufighter Article Count: 4
Blenheim Article Count: 2
Type 170 Article Count: 1
Bulldog Article Count: 1
Britannia Article Count: 2
Buckingham Article Count: 1
Brigand Article Count: 1
de Havilland Article Count: 0
Vampire Article Count: 4
DH-103 Sea Hornet Article Count: 1
DH-60 Moth Article Count: 3
DH-82 Tiger Moth Article Count: 13
DH-89 Dragon Six Article Count: 5
DH-90 Dragonfly Article Count: 2
DH-98 Mosquito Article Count: 10
Sea Venom Article Count: 1
Sea Vixen Article Count: 1
D.H. 114 Heron Article Count: 4
DH 112 Venom Article Count: 1
D.H.86 Express Article Count: 1
DH.87 Hornet Moth Article Count: 1
English Electric Article Count: 0
Canberra Article Count: 3
Lightning Article Count: 9
Fairey Article Count: 1
Handley Page Article Count: 0
Hawker Article Count: 0
Hunting Percival Article Count: 0
Supermarine Article Count: 0
Vickers Article Count: 0
Valiant Article Count: 1
Vildebeest Article Count: 1
Warwick Article Count: 1
Wellington Article Count: 1
Westland Article Count: 0
Scottish Aircraft and Engineering Company Ltd Article Count: 0
British Burnelli Article Count: 1
General Aircraft Article Count: 0
GAL.49 Hamilcar Article Count: 1
G.A.L. 48 Hotspur Article Count: 1
Slingsby Article Count: 0
Comper Aircraft Article Count: 0
Comper Swift Article Count: 1
Boulton Paul Aircraft Article Count: 0
Defiant Article Count: 1
Saunders-Roe Article Count: 0
A.36 Lerwick Article Count: 1
USSR Article Count: 0
Antonov Article Count: 0
An-10 Article Count: 1
An-12 Article Count: 104
An-124 Article Count: 33
An-2 Article Count: 39
An-24 Article Count: 83
An-26 Article Count: 92
An-28 Article Count: 2
An-30 Article Count: 76
An-32 Article Count: 5
An-38 Article Count: 19
An-3T Article Count: 20
An-74 Article Count: 10
An-14 Пчелка Article Count: 1
Iliyushin Article Count: 0
Lavochkin Article Count: 0
Mikoyan Gurevitch Article Count: 0
Mil Article Count: 0
Polikarpov Article Count: 0
Tupolev Article Count: 0
Russia Article Count: 0
Hydroplane Article Count: 0
Che 22 Article Count: 1
Kamov (Russia) Article Count: 0
Ka-226 Article Count: 1
Myasishchev Article Count: 0
M-101 Article Count: 2
Tupolev (Russia) Article Count: 0
Yakovlev (Russia) Article Count: 0
Yak-54 Article Count: 1
Netherlands Article Count: 0
Switzerland Article Count: 0
Sweden Article Count: 0
Saab Article Count: 0
J-35 Draken Article Count: 5
Model 2000 Article Count: 1
Model 340 Article Count: 1
JA37 Viggen Article Count: 1
Yugoslavia Article Count: 0
Soko Article Count: 0
IJ-22 Orao Article Count: 1
N-60 Galeb Article Count: 1
J-21 Jastreb Article Count: 1
J-20 Kraguj Article Count: 1
North Pole Article Count: 0
Santa Claus Article Count: 1
Engines Article Count: 1
Czechoslovakia Article Count: 0
France Article Count: 0
Gnome Article Count: 0
Rectimo Aviation Article Count: 0
4 AR1200 Article Count: 2
Hispano-Suiza Article Count: 0
Model 6H Article Count: 1
Hispano Suiza 12Y Article Count: 2
Hispano Suiza 12X Article Count: 3
Model 12G (W12) Article Count: 1
Renault Article Count: 4
Société des Moteurs Le Rhône Article Count: 1
Gnome et Rhône Article Count: 2
Clerget Article Count: 1
Lorraine-Dietrich Article Count: 0
Lorraine 12 Eb Article Count: 1
Russia and USSR Article Count: 0
Aviadvigatel Article Count: 0
PS-90 Article Count: 6
Glushenkov Article Count: 2
Ivchenko Article Count: 0
Klimov Article Count: 0
United Kingdom Article Count: 0
de Havilland Article Count: 0
Rolls Royce Article Count: 1
Rolls Royce - Snecma Olympus 593 Article Count: 7
Armstrong Siddeley Article Count: 0
Mongoose Article Count: 1
Bristol Siddeley Article Count: 0
Orpheus Article Count: 1
Royal Aircraft Factory Article Count: 2
Siddeley Article Count: 1
William Beardmore and Company Article Count: 1
Cirrus Aero-Engines Article Count: 1
USA Article Count: 0
Continental Article Count: 0
General Electric Article Count: 1
Jacobs Article Count: 0
L-4 / R-755 Article Count: 10
Lycoming Article Count: 0
Pratt & Whitney Article Count: 1
R-985 Wasp Junior Article Count: 5
R-1340 Wasp Article Count: 4
R-1535 Twin Wasp Junior Article Count: 2
R-1830 Twin Wasp Article Count: 7
R-2000 Twin Wasp Article Count: 1
R-2800 Double Wasp Article Count: 5
TF-30 Article Count: 2
PT-6 Article Count: 3
Ranger Article Count: 0
Westinghouse Article Count: 0
XJ-40 Article Count: 2
Williams Article Count: 0
Wright Article Count: 0
R-2600 - Cyclone 14 Article Count: 1
R-790 Whirlwind Article Count: 5
R-760 Whirlwind 7 - J-6 Article Count: 1
R-975 Whirlwind 9 - J6 Article Count: 3
R-1820 - Cyclone 9 Article Count: 8
R-3350 Duplex Cyclone Article Count: 9
XRJ47 Article Count: 3
XRJ51 Article Count: 1
XRJ55 Article Count: 1
YJ-67 Article Count: 1
YT-47 Article Count: 1
YT-49 Article Count: 1
Wright R-1300 Cyclone 7 Article Count: 1
Liberty Article Count: 1
Newspaper Article Count: 135
USA Article Count: 0
United States Army Aviation Digest Article Count: 172
Wings Article Count: 2
Army Talks Article Count: 7
Aeronautics Article Count: 8
Air Force News Article Count: 44
Covering 1918 to 1944
Canada Article Count: 0
Crash comment Article Count: 48
Germany Article Count: 0
Der Adler Article Count: 94
Newspaper created by the Luftwaffe and Goering during the second wolrd war.
Netherlands Article Count: 0
Vliegwereld Article Count: 5
Vintage Aero Advertising Article Count: 0
You will here aviation related advertising from the beginning of the XXth century to 1980. They are classified in several categories:
Manufacturers: Aircraft or parts manufacturers
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Other: All companies using aviation as a way to sell their products.