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Civil Aviation Pioneers

The Record-Setting Flight of a Cessna 172

May 22, 2023May 22, 2023 Nathan Cluett 0 Comments 172, aircraft, Cessna 172, Longest ever flight, Skyhawk, USA

Since the first flight in 1903, there have been numerous remarkable feats that inspire awe and admiration. The ceaseless endeavour

Kalinin bomber taxiing.

Experimental Pioneers

The Kalinin K-7 was a Monster Made of Soviet Steel

April 11, 2023April 11, 2023 Guy Davey 1930s, airliner, am-34, ant-20, biggest, bomber, engines, k-7, kalinin, kalinin k-7, largest, maxim gorky, mikulin, record, Russia, soviet, soviet union, soviets, tupolev, USSR, war, wings, world war two, ww2, wwii

The Kalinin K-7 was an experimental bomber aircraft designed in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. It was designed

The Scaled Composites Pond Race.

Scaled Composites Pond Racer – A Need for Speed

March 31, 2023March 31, 2023 Jake Leigh-Howarth 0 Comments Air race, aircraft, experimental, Pond Racer, Reno, USA

The Scaled Composites Pond Racer was a competitive aircraft conceived in the late 1980s which aimed to replace the wartime

The Dornier Do 19.

Dornier Do 19 – The Bomber Designed to Win the War

March 29, 2023March 29, 2023 Jake Leigh-Howarth 0 Comments aircraft, bomber, Do 19, Dornier, Germany

The Dornier Do 19 was a long-range strategic heavy bomber that faced off against the Junkers Ju 89 as part

Major Richard Bong in his P-38 Lightning.

Richard Bong – Ace of Aces & Low Flying Crocodile Hunter

March 24, 2023March 30, 2023 Guy Davey 0 Comments Ace, aircraft, Bong, fighter, Lightning, P-38, Richard Bong, USA

Major Richard Bong established himself as perhaps one of the most skilled flying aces during the Second World War. Born

The Boeing Super Guppy.

Civil Aviation Latest Pioneers

The Guppy – Ugliest Aircraft Ever?

February 22, 2023March 28, 2023 Jake Leigh-Howarth 0 Comments aircraft, Boeing, experimental, Guppy, prototype, Super Guppy, transport, USA

The Pregnant Guppy and the Super Guppy were cargo planes designed to carry oversized objects for NASA’s Apollo Saturn program

The de Havilland DH 106 Comet.

Civil Aviation Latest Pioneers

De Havilland Comet – Fantastic but Flawed

February 21, 2023March 29, 2023 Jake Leigh-Howarth aircraft, airliner, Britain, british, Comet, de Havilland, DH 106, First, passenger

On May 2nd, 1952, the world’s first scheduled passenger flight featuring a jet airliner took off from London Airport bound

Tthe Messerschmitt P.1101.

Messerschmitt P.1101- German Forefather of the Swing Wing

February 4, 2023February 21, 2023 Jake Leigh-Howarth aircraft, experimental, fighter, german, P.1101, prototype, Swing Wing, wwii

The Messerschmitt P.1101 was the experimental fighter jet constructed as a response to a desperate Luftwaffe decree that ordered aeronautical

The Horten Ho 229.

Horten Flying Wing – Germany’s Jet Powered UFO

February 3, 2023February 21, 2023 Steve MacGregor aircraft, bomber, experimental, fighter, german, Go 229, Ho 229, Horten, prototype, wwii

More than any other contemporary air service, the German Luftwaffe during World War Two explored the outer limits of aircraft

The Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane.v

Latest Pioneers

Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane – First Ever Cruise Missile

January 26, 2023February 21, 2023 Jake Leigh-Howarth aircraft, cruise missile, experimental, Missile, prototype, USA

A month before the last flight of the Hewitt-Sperry automatic aeroplane its creator, the brilliant Elmer Sperry, would boldly and

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