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	Aviation Central - World's largest selection of Aircraft Models
		And (4), of course the world's most famous modern airplanes - Air Force One - The planes of the President of the United States.
		Start with the biplanes of the early years, discover the daring innovations of the 1920s and 1930s, enjoy the prop-driven planes of the 1940's and 1950's and all the modern jet airliners.
		Plus special section for NASA aircraft, including experimental planes now under development..
	www.aviation-central.com (364 words)

	Japanese Navy Ships--Hosho (Aircraft Carrier, 1922-1947)
		She was originally completed with an "island" on her starboard side, but this was removed in 1923.
		By the beginning of the Pacific War, Hosho had been relegated to training duties, but was used in a combat role during the Battle of Midway in June 1942.
		On the morning of 5 June, one of Hosho's planes photographed the crippled aircraft carrier Hiryu shortly before that ship sank.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/japan/japsh-h/hosho2.htm (559 words)

	Do 217
		These aircraft, probably of KG 2, appear to be camouflaged in 70/71 Green uppers, with Black distemper lower surfaces.
		This time, the subject is one of the Luftwaffe's less glamorous aircraft which nevertheless served in a variety of roles from nightfighter to night bomber, to anti-maritime aircraft.
		This sleek aircraft was designed at a time when it was believed that fast, light bombers could operate without escort - relying solely on their own high speed as defence.
	www.clubhyper.com /reference/do217bg_1.htm (558 words)

	EH.Net Encyclopedia: History of the Aerospace Industry
		Aircraft remained experimental apparatus for five years after the Wright brother's famous first flight in December 1903.
		Aircraft firms also struggled to modify their airframes for the greater speeds and altitudes possible with jet engines.
		Aircraft grew more expensive, so the fewer produced were expected to have longer lives with more frequent remanufacturing.
	www.eh.net /encyclopedia/article/bugos.aerospace.industry.history (3757 words)

	New York City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The height of European immigration brought social upheaval, and the anticapitalist labor union IWW was fiercely repressed.
		Later, in the 1920s, the city saw the influx of African-Americans as part of the Great Migration from the American South.
		Langston Hughes was part of the Harlem Renaissance that flourished in the 1920s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_York_City (6016 words)

	ch3-2
		Second, the PRT demonstrated that multiengined aircraft perform best when the engines and their nacelles are in line with the wing- chord plane.
		Most startling of all was the discovery that the protruding cylinders typical of the air-cooled engines of the 1920s contributed almost one-third the drag of the entire fuselage.
		Aircraft designers had let the cylinders and their cooling fins stick out in the airstream for maximum cooling, but now it was apparent that the drag penalty was too high.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/SP-440/ch3-2.htm (688 words)

	MPM 1/48 Vacuform Do-217
		These aircraft were fitted with either the Fug 202 Lichtenstein radar or the Fug 101 radar and the bomb bays were covered on all examples.
		The overall aircraft dimensions were; wingspan 62 feet 4 inches, length 59 feet, height 16 feet 4 inches with a wing area of 613.56 square feet.
		One odd feature of the aircraft (for the period) was a braking parachute attached to the rear of the fuselage.
	swannysmodels.com /DO217preview.html (1546 words)

	MPM 1/48 Vacuform Do-217
		These aircraft were fitted with either the Fug 202 Lichtenstein radar or the Fug 101 radar and the bomb bays were covered on all examples.
		The overall aircraft dimensions were; wingspan 62 feet 4 inches, length 59 feet, height 16 feet 4 inches with a wing area of 613.56 square feet.
		One odd feature of the aircraft (for the period) was a braking parachute attached to the rear of the fuselage.
	www.swannysmodels.com /DO217preview.html (1546 words)

	First World War.com - The War in the Air - From Triplane to Camel, the War's Best Fighters
		The nimble triplane must have held incredible appeal for a virtuoso pilot such as Richthofen, and with his forces suddenly facing a superior aircraft it is not surprising that he pressed the Idflieg to provide a similar aircraft.
		Whether he was shot down by ground fire or by another aircraft remains unclear, but he fell behind Allied lines and was buried by the British with full military honours.
		Anton Fokker was to produce one more aircraft during the war, and this was to be, in the eyes of many, the best fighter plane built during the conflict.
	www.firstworldwar.com /airwar/bestaircraft.htm (1004 words)

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		The first aircraft that was produced after the standardization efforts was the Model NA-77 designed as an aerial gunnery trainer with the seat in the rear cockpit facing aft and provision for two 30-caliber (7.62 mm) machine guns, a flexible gun in the rear cockpit and another in the engine cowling.
		This aircraft was the first in the series to be equipped with the standardized 600 hp (447 kW) Pratt and Whitney R-1340-AN-1 radial engine used in all later models, a Hamilton Standard two-bladed constant-speed propeller, removable fuel tanks in the wing center section, a triangular shaped vertical fin and rudder, and blunt wingtips.
		Each aircraft was equipped with a raised instructor's seat, a new standardized cockpit layout in both front and rear, increased fuel tankage, square tipped propellers, and F-51 Mustang-type landing gear and tail wheel.
	www.microworks.net /PACIFIC/aviation/snj.htm (2137 words)

	Dark Matter: Free aircraft to download for the X-Plane flight simulator
		My aircraft are primarily designed to be flown, but I also want them to look right as far as possible.
		Nord NC.701 Martinet - As an aerial photographic aircraft with the Swedish mapping agency.
		CVM S.25 - Swedish reconnaissance aircraft from the 1920s.
	www.canit.se /~griffon/xplane (398 words)

	Radial Engines \| America's Leading Radial Engine Headquarters
		Gene Frank of Caldwell, Idaho was for many years a collector and restorer of antique aircraft.
		Included in this collection are WWI Jenny trainers, many aircraft from the 1920s and 30s, and several WWII trainers (N3Ns, a PT 23 and a PT 19), twenty seven aircraft in all.
		Since the aircraft are in Idaho and we are in Oklahoma, it will be necessary to schedule appointments for those interested in viewing the aircraft.
	www.radialengines.com /aircraft_projects/index.htm (234 words)

	Unreal Aircraft - Links
		It was designed as a multipurpose civil and military aircraft, it could carry 128 passengers up to 5,000km.
		Adrian is a very accomplished artist in several media, and the site displays a wide range of his works; but he has dedicated a large part of it to his own images of "fl aircraft", accompanied by informative and interesting text, and reports from other sources.
		Avro Canada was, of course, responsible for aircraft from the Avro Arrow jet fighter and a number of orthodox and well known designs, to some a little less conventional.
	www.unrealaircraft.com /links.php (1275 words)

	'American Barnstormers' Tour Roars into EAA AirVenture 2006 with the Best of Early Aviation
		The American Barnstormers Tour brings together as many as 20 aircraft from the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s in a unique collection of airplanes and aviators.
		The meticulously restored and maintained aircraft will be featured in a special display in AirVenture’s Vintage Aircraft area and flown in showcase flights during their stay in Oshkosh.
		The magic of those times and aircraft continues to be a draw today at places such as EAA AirVenture or other aviation gatherings.
	www.airventure.org /2006/news/060301_barnstormers.html (466 words)

	Microsoft Flight Simulator (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The designs were conventional, using the metal skin as a covering, not as a load-bearing structure, but their aluminum alloy construction anticipated all-metal aircraft of the 1920s and 1930s.
		With aircraft designers combining new materials, construction techniques, engines, and aerodynamic developments in ever-more-imaginative packages, records were routinely set and surpassed in every area of aircraft performance.
		A major breakthrough in the design of these Boeing and Douglas aircraft was their integration of the engines and their cowlings into the wings, a breakthrough in aerodynamic efficiency that set the standard for future aircraft.
	www.fsinsider.com /Community/News-Articles/100-Years-of-Aviation.htm (3999 words)

	Denis James Burrell
		The cruising speed of a biplane - or even a single winged aircraft in the 1920s or 1930s - was modest.
		An aviator who ran into insuperable difficulties with his aircraft had time to climb on the seat, jump out, pull the ripcord of the parachute he was wearing, and descend safely to earth.
		These days, an ejector seat will not only separate a pilot safely from an aircraft, but also take care of the parachute descent, inflate if the landing should be on water, and flash a signal via a beacon to assist rescue.
	www.brunel.ac.uk /about/hongrads/2000/burrell (868 words)

	USS Lexington -- Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
		Chambers worked closely with Glenn Curtiss, aircraft manufacturer Eugene Fly (an associate of Curtiss) and Lieutenant T.G. Ellyson, the first naval aviator (trained in aviation by Curtiss at no cost to the government) to demonstrate the advantages of aviation to the Navy.
		By employing a combination of scouting, fighter or bomber aircraft to control the enemy's air power, groups of carriers, screened by surface ships, could open the way for island invasions, cover and support amphibious operations, and help to hold the conquered areas.
		USS Lexington (CV-16) was launched in 1942 as a welded, steel hull, Essex-class aircraft carrier with an overall length of 872 feet and a length along the waterline of 820 feet.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/aviation/lex.htm (712 words)

	WW2 Warbirds: the Petlyakov Pe-2 Peshka - Frans Bonné
		The first five aircraft were produced in such a hurry that they were built with the armament in mock-up form, and were used to test and improve the concept of the Pe-2.
		The Pe-2 was inadequately defended in the rear quarter of the aircraft.
		The aircraft was 37 to 40 Mph (60 to 65 km/h) faster at medium altitudes, but since the rocket engine had only a brief endurance and was unreliable the aircraft was never produced in series.
	www.xs4all.nl /~fbonne/warbirds/ww2htmls/petlpe2.html (5026 words)

	Hawker Tomtit Information
		This required Sidney Camm, who was chief designer at Hawkers, to provide a design of an all-metal structured aircraft, the Tomtit.
		This had a Cirrus engine fitted, although later one aircraft was converted to having a Wolseley A.R.7.
		It is probable that more Tomtits could have been sold, as it was very well received by their pilots, but Hawkers were heavily involved in the production of the Hawker Hart.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Hawker_Tomtit (317 words)

	Douglas Aircraft
		After a visit to the Smithsonian Institution with his father and seeing the aircraft engine that Charles Manley had built for Samuel Langley, Douglas began reading all he could about aviation and building model planes.
		He first tried to get a job in the aircraft industry but was unsuccessful and enrolled as an aeronautical engineering student instead at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), graduating in just two years.
		The DT-2 also was the first Douglas aircraft constructed under license by a foreign manufacturer—by the Norwegian government and later by Peru's navy.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Aerospace/Douglas-early/Aero26.htm (1191 words)

	Alexander Eaglerock Biplane (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Eaglerock biplane, made famous by barnstormers during the 1920s, was manufactured in what is now downtown Englewood, Colorado, and later in Colorado Springs, by the Alexander Aircraft Company.
		However, no one, not even the government, was buying that many aircraft in the 1920s, so the existing aircraft manufacturers would not take Mr.
		In the 1928 - 1929 time frame the Alexander Aircraft Company was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world, with the capacity of manufacturing eight airplanes a day.
	www.swaviator.com /html/issueam00/eaglerockAM00.html (701 words)

	Aircraft Model (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Aircraft were used at sea in WW1 and rose to prominence in WW2.
		Both naval and land aircraft were of importance to naval history.
		Most of the important aircraft of WW2 have been entered.
	navalhistory.flixco.info /H/bx55798/c8330/a0.htm (51 words)

	Bugatti Aircraft Association; Bugatti Airplane History
		In the 1920s, Bugatti moved from Italy to France and remained a French citizen for the rest of his life, he died in 1946, and during two seasons of that decade his dark blue race cars swept past all competition, scoring one thousand victories and making the name Bugatti synonymous with the ultimate in performance.
		As soon as the new design was finalized, construction of the aircraft was begun on the second floor of a high quality furniture factory in Paris.
		As most of the parts were in the boxes that came with the job, the solution was to select a piece that might fit until the system operated.
	www.bugattiaircraft.com /kalempa.htm (1736 words)

	Airport Journals
		The meticulously restored and maintained aircraft were featured in a special display in AirVenture's Vintage Aircraft area and flown in showcase flights during their stay at Oshkosh.
		On Thursday, Joe Walker, president of Adam Aircraft, and Rick Adam, founder and CEO, updated the media on the changes and challenges the company is facing as it prepares its forthcoming A700 jet to join the gaggle of very light jets soon to fly the skies.
		Other computer-controlled aircraft are moving on the ground and in the air, and the user can hear the chatter of the air traffic controller as part of the drama.
	www.airportjournals.com /Display.cfm?varID=0609004 (6009 words)

	Advanced Topics in Aerodynamics, Foreword
		In the 1920s an aircraft could be designed, assembled and flown in a few months (The Spirit of S.
		In the 1930s some aircraft consisted already of several hundreds of thousands of parts, and the design of the Boeing 737 in the 1960s required 140,000 technical drawings.
		Development of a new fighter aircraft or a new transport aircraft now require several years, major investments, and international cooperation (with a very few exceptions).
	www.aerodyn.org /foreword.html (613 words)

	Advanced Topics in Aerodynamics, Foreword
		In the 1920s an aircraft could be designed, assembled and flown in a few months (The Spirit of S.
		In the 1930s some aircraft consisted already of several hundreds of thousands of parts, and the design of the Boeing 737 in the 1960s required 140,000 technical drawings.
		New airplanes are more likely to be evolutions of older versions than brand new designs (the Boeing 747 of the late 1990s is not the same aircraft of 1972).
	aerodyn.org /foreword.html (613 words)

	1920s
		"Education in the 1920s: Overview." DISCovering U.S. History.
		"Aircraft Industry in the 1920s." DISCovering U.S. History.
		"Farms and Farmers in the 1920s." DISCovering U.S. History.
	cms.westport.k12.ct.us /cmslmc/Grade7/decades/1920s.htm (367 words)

	Surviving the Peace. Lessons Learned from the Aircraft Industry in the 1920s and 1930s - Storming Media
		This paper examines the American aircraft industry during the peace from 1920 to 1939.
		Although commercial markets existed, aircraft manufacturers failed to achieve independence from government contracts.
		This failure was due to government procurement practices, poor business management by aviation pioneers, the high cost of technology development, and the small size of commercial markets.
	www.stormingmedia.us /48/4828/A482882.html (320 words)

	FS98 Vintage Page 15
		Finished in the colors of Walter Nowotny's aircraft.
		Spacious and fast it was just the aircraft for cross country exploring.
		FS98 Hughes HK-1 Hercules, 'Sproose Goose', Howard Hughes' aircraft.
	www.simviation.com /fs98vintage15.htm (337 words)

	Austin Academy of Aviation
		Cessna and those who followed him in the 1920s and early 1930s faced a number of difficulties as they tried repeatedly to build the type of aircraft that would allow for the realization of the dreams of the winged gospel.
		They also sold a number of aircraft to the Army that were used in the Aerial-Observation-Post program in which Army pilots flew small aircraft in order to spot targets for Army artillery.
		Given that most of the technology included in these aircraft (their airframe and engines) had not advanced much since the 1950s and 1960s, the new, much higher prices proved particularly difficult to justify to potential buyers.
	flyaus.com /history_GA.htm (2231 words)

	JS Online: Flying through time: Rare WWII bomber to appear at EAA AirVenture
		The restored aircraft will be featured, along with flight crews in period clothing, in a display near the vintage-aircraft area.
		Since it was introduced in the mid-1950s, the familiar high-wing aircraft has been flown by thousands of budding pilots who learned the basics of flight at its controls.
		Among the aircraft invited to this year's show is the first Cessna 172, which is still flown regularly by an EAA member who lives in Texas.
	www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=475497&format=print (581 words)

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