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The Dewoitine D.550, a record-breaking aircraft. France
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  France is rightly considered by many to be the cradle of aviation. In the late 19th century and during the early years of aviation, it was in ...

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A Bitter Tree: The Curtiss-Wright C-76 Caravan, a Proven Medium Military Transport Aircraft
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  Editor's Foreword: Built of wood to conserve aluminum—which, it was feared, would be in short supply during the war—the Curtiss C-76 Caravan ...

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Supermarine's Secret Projects: Flying Boats. Part 11: Four-Engine Military Flying Boats
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All articles in the series This is the next installment in a series of articles that are translations of chapters from a book by British aviation ...

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The History of External Tail Structures: From World War II Research to SpaceShip III. Part 3
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All parts of the article   Across the Atlantic It is claimed that, in parallel with the early work conducted in Europe described in the previous ...

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Heroes of Great Flights. Part 10: The Legendary “Question Mark”
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All articles in the series This is the next installment in a series of vintage articles from the magazine *Letectví + kosmonautika* (1984–91 issues) ...

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Consolidated's design for a 100-seat passenger flying boat. United States
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Here is a short vintage article from Consolidated's corporate magazine, *Consolidator* (July 1938 issue), which I think will be of interest to readers and ...

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The Messerschmitt in Finnish. The VL Puuska fighter, which arrived too late for the war and was intended to be a low-cost alternative to the Bf-109
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Quite some time ago—more than 10 years ago—we had an article on our website dedicated to Finland’s own fighter jet, the VL Pyörremyrsky. The aircraft described ...

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The Forgotten Giants of the Sky: Fairey’s Passenger Airliner Designs from the Late 1930s to the Late 1940s. Part 1
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All parts of the article   Contents: Editor’s Foreword: By the mid-1930s, chaos reigned in the world of British civil aviation: outdated ...

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Aviators of World War I. Rumpler C.I. Reconnaissance Aircraft, Germany
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All articles in the series   Edmund Rumpler Flugzeugwerke (Rumpler) began its operations in the aviation industry with the licensed production ...

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Nikolai Kolyadko. A Little Bit of Planning
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An article from Nikolai Kolyadko's channel in the VKontakte community. If there’s anything more interesting than reports on actual combat operations, ...

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