Millennium History

Ancient history

  • Douglas A3D-2 Skywarrior

    The Skywarrior was the first major strategic bomber with nuclear capabilities to enter service with the US Navy. The 280 units built in total began to equip the detachments in the spring of 1956 and remained in line throughout the sixties. Supplemented in their primary role by about seventy machines

  • grumman

    The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, which then took the name of Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was during the 20th century one of the companies producing the most military and civilian aircraft. Founded in 1929 by Leroy Grumman, it merged at the end of the 20th century with Northrop to for

  • Glenn Curtiss

    Glenn Curtiss Glenn Hammond Curtiss (Hammondsport (New York, USA), May 21, 1878 - Buffalo (New York, USA), July 23, 1930) was an aviation pioneer. In 1903, Glen Curtiss, racing cyclist and bicycle salesman, switched to motorcycling and became a manufacturer. In 1906, after meeting the Wright brot

  • Mikhail Gurevich

    Mikhail Iossifovitch Gourevitch born December 31, 1892 (Julian calendar or January 12, 1893 Gregorian calendar), in Rubanchtchina, near Kursk, died November 25, 1976 in Moscow, was a Soviet aeronautical engineer, who remains famous for his cooperation with Artem Mikoyan, in the Mikoyan-Gourevitch de

  • Ivan Mikoyan

    Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (August 5, 1905 in Sanahin, Armenia - December 9, 1970) was a Soviet aircraft designer, in partnership with Mikhail Gourevich, MiG. After having been a lathe worker in Rostov-on-the-Don he was conscripted. After his military service he entered the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy

  • Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev

    Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev 19 March/1 April 1906 in Moscow; died August 22, 1989 in Moscow) was a Soviet aeronautical engineer Already during his studies (completed in 1931) at the Moscow Military Aeronautical Academy, he participated in the construction of training and competition aircraft. He

  • Kamov Ka-25 “Hormone”

    Ka-25 (several versions, designations unknown) (NATO code Hormone) Constructor :design office Nikolai I. Kamov. Soviet Union. Type :on-board ASW, search/rescue and utility helicopter. Engines :two 900 hp Glouchenkov GTD-3 free turbines. Dimensions: main rotor diameter (both) 15.75 m;fuselage leng

  • Polikarpov Po-2.

    Aircraft:Polikarpov Po-2.Manufacturer:State Industries.Type:instruction.Year:1928.Engine:M.11 5-cylinder radial, air-cooled110 hp.Wingspan:11.40 m. Length:8.15m.Height:3.02 m.Take-off weight:981 kg.Maximum speed:146 km/h.Maximum operating altitude:4,000 m.Range:430 km.Armament:1 machine gun, 250 kg

  • Sopwith Triplane

    Fighter Aircraft Role MotorizationEngine Clerget 9 engine B130hp (97 KW) Dimensions Wingspan 8.09 m Length 5.96m Wing area 25.40 m² Masses With armament 643 kg Performance Maximum speed 186 km/h(Mach 0.15) Ceiling 6,080 m Climbing speed 300 m/min ArmamentInternal One Vicker machine gun

  • Sopwith Camel

    Sopwith Camel Fighter Aircraft Role Crew 1 pilot EngineGnome 9 engine 151 hp rotary engine Dimensions Wingspan 8.5 m Length 5.72m Height 2.59m Wing area 21.45 m² Masses Empty 421 kg With armament 659 kg PerformanceMaximum speed 185 km/h(Mach 0.15) Design The Sopwith Camel was a British

  • Mitsubishi G4M Betty

    The best and most famous assault bomber used by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force during World War II was the Mitsubishi G4M operating from land bases in the Eastern theaters of operations. Although the load carried was reduced and the protection of the crew and the tanks dramatically insufficien

  • Marcel Dassault

    Marcel Dassault (born Marcel Bloch on January 22, 1892 in Paris - April 17, 1986 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was an entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder and CEO of the Dassault Group.After high school at the Lycée Condorcet, he entered the Bréguet School of Electricity (ESIEE), then joined the Hi

  • Leon Levavasseur

    Léon Levavasseur (Cherbourg, 1863 - Paris, 1922) was a French aviation pioneer. He filed a patent for an 8-cylinder engine in 1902 and created the Antoinette company in 1904. In 1905, he received an order from Captain Ferdinand Ferber for a 24hp engine. Very quickly all the manufacturers of the tim

  • SPAD S.XIII

    SWORD S.XIII Role Fighter Aircraft SPAD constructor Date of first volume 4 April 1917 Date of commissioning end of May 1917 Built name 8472 Crew 1 EngineHispano-Suiza 8B-V8-online motor engine Name 1 Type nc Unit power output 220 hp (164 kW) Dimensions Width 8.10 m Length 6.30 m Height

  • Nieuport 17

    Nieuport 17 Fighter Aircraft Role Date of withdrawal nc Crew 1 Motorization Engine engine Le Rhône110 hp (82 kW) Wingspan 8.20 m Length 5.80m Height 2.40m Wing area 14.80 m² WeightsUnladen 375 kg With armament 560 kg PerformanceMaximum speed 164 km/h(Mach 0.13) Ceiling 5300m Climbing s

  • Nieuport 11 "Baby"

    Role Fighter Aircraft Crew1Engine80 hp Le Rhône engine Dimensions Wingspan 7.52 mLength 5.64 mHeight 2.40 mWing area 13.3 m²WeightsUnladen 320 kg With armament 480 kg PerformanceTop speed 176 km /h ArmamentInternal machine gun he Nieuport 11 is undoubtedly one of the biplanes that marked the av

  • Loire and Nieuport 40

    The Loire-Nieuport LN 401 single-seat dive bomber type was the French stuka but suffered very heavy losses during the Second World War. Having the mission of bombing, it most often operated against a powerful anti-aircraft defense. History Making its first flight in June 1938, the first prototype o

  • FMA IA 58A Pucarà

    Type :anti-guerrilla plane. Engines :two 762 kW (1022 hp) Turboméca Astazou XVIG turboprop engines.Performance :maximum speed at 3,500 m altitude, 500 km/h range in clean configuration with maximum fuel load at 5,000 m altitude, 3,050 km.Weight :empty, 4,037 kg; maximum take-off, 6,800 kg.Dimensions

  • Willy Messerschmitt

    Willy Messerschmitt was born in 1898 in Frankfurt am Main. Passionate about aviation, he worked from 1913 with a glider specialist, Friedrich Harth. During the First World War, Messerschmitt worked alone on the S5 glider, an aircraft that Harth had not had time to finish following his incorporation

  • Hugo Junkers

    Hugo Junkers was a German engineer, pioneer in aeronautical construction, born on February 3, 1859 in Rheydt in the Rhineland and died on February 3, 1935 in Gauting, near Munich). After his studies at the universities of Berlin, Karlsruhe and Aix-la-Chapelle, he founded with Wilhelm von Oechelhaus

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