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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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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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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of the article   Contents: Editor’s Foreword: By the mid-1930s, chaos reigned in the world of British civil aviation: outdated ...

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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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The Tachikawa Ki-94 II (航空機 キ94 II), a Japanese superfighter that arrived too late for the war
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  Unlike the Eastern Front, where most air battles took place at medium or low altitudes (sometimes even just above the ground), air battles in ...

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A Perspective from the United States in May 1945 on the Tactics of the Red Army Air Force
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A vintage article from *Flying* magazine (May 1945 issue), published in honor of the 81st anniversary of the Great Victory, which I think will be of ...

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The Forgotten Giants of the Sky: Fairey’s Passenger Airliner Designs from the Late 1930s to the Late 1940s. Part 2
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All parts of the article   A postwar opportunity? As the end of the war in Europe drew near, Fairey once again began to take an interest in ...

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The History of External Tail Structures: From World War II Research to SpaceShip III. Part 4
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All sections of the article Zoom Out A separate line of innovation began in 1998 when Patrick Peebles adopted a cross-flow fan as part of the wing ...

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The Caudron CR.714 Fighter: A Light French Cyclone
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An article from the "Historical Armored Vehicle" channel on Yandex Zen, dated May 24, 2023.   The aircraft, which became the most striking ...

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