In 1920, the British Air Ministry issued Specification 5/20 which called for a twin-engine troop-carrier biplane. Two manufacturers responded: Armstrong Whitworth with the Awana and Vickers with the Victoria. Both designs were to be powered […]
The origins of Austro-Hungarian naval aviation can be traced back to 1910, when the naval department of k.u.k. Kriegsministerium (the Imperial and Royal Ministry of War) began to consider the military potential of aircraft. By […]
On 20th June 1914, two Austro-Hungarian aircraft, M.III Körting airship and Farman F.20 biplane, collided in mid-air near Fischamend, Lower Austria. As a result of the accident, both aircraft were destroyed and none of their […]
On 6th June 1917, the first wheeled torpedo-carrying aircraft in the world, Sopwith Cuckoo biplane, was officially approved for test flight. Shortly after, the aeroplane performed its maiden flight, although the exact date is unknown. […]
LWF model V (c/n – , ´4´ of the Czechoslovak Legion), exhibited in the National Technical Museum, Prague, April 2025. In December of 1915, Edward Lowe Jr., Charles F. Willard, and Robert G. Fowler founded […]
Jet Pitts (c/n LAA 009C-15409, G-JPIT), flying display at the 44th Sanicole International Airshow, Hechtel-Eksel, September 2024. The story of jet-powered Pitts biplane starts with Richard Goodwin, one of the best known and recognized British […]
Christen Eagle II (c/n PFA 138-14627, OK-IGL), flying display at Memorial Air Show 2019, Roudnice nad Labem airfield, June 2019. In the 1960s, Frank L. Christensen, an American student of the senior year at Stanford […]
Charles Alexandre Maurice Joseph Marie Jules Stanislas Jacques, Count de Lambert, was one of the first French aviation pioneers. He was born in 1865 in Funchal, the largest city of Madeira, but spent his childhood […]
On 27th September 1909, the Short Biplane No.2 experimental aircraft performed its first flight at Shellbeach, the Isle of Sheppey. At the dawn of aviation, the British daily newspaper Daily Mail supported the pioneer aviators […]
On 15th June 1919, John Alcock and Arthur Brown successfully landed their Vickers Vimy aircraft in County Galway in Ireland, completing the first non-stop transatlantic flight in aviation history. In April of 1913, the Daily […]
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