707-120B: The first major upgrade to the design was a re-engining with JT3D-3 turbofans, which were quieter, more powerful, and more fuel efficient, producing 18,000 lbf each. The aircraft also received extra leading edge slats and the tailplane was enlarged. A totla of 72 of these ...
Maryland) started work on the C-123 Provider, the transport officially entering service in 1955. In 1956, the company acquired rights to the Fokker Friendships, producing 206 of the aircraft as the Fairchild F-27 and Fairchild Hiller FH-227. During the 1950s, Fairchild was a large subcontract...
Presently, Spanair has a fleet of 65 aircraft, comprising 19 MD-83, 10 MD-82, 3 MD-87, 5 Airbus A321, 17 Airbus A320 and 7 Boeing 717s. Spanair has signed an agreement with the European company Airbus to renew and increase the fleet, to build up to a ...
The series production of the Eurofighter Typhoon is underway, and the aircraft is being procured under three separate contracts (named "tranches"), each for aircraft with generally improved capabilities. The aircraft has entered service with the British Royal Air Force, the German Luftwaffe, the Ita...
G. Fedorov, creator of the world's first assault rifle (1916), assisted by young Soviet designers, substantiated theoretically and developed unified experimental models of light automatic machine-guns, aircraft machine-guns, an antiaircraft machine-gun, tank machine-gun and heavy machine-gun based ...
12,996 WWII German Aircraft Photographs Luftwaffe Photo Index Fighters By Unit Bombers Reconnaissance Transports Seaplanes Fighters [7,397 Photos] Blohm & Voss 155 [23 Photos] BV-155 Page 1 BV-155 Page 2 Dornier 335 Pfeil [284 Photos] ...
Hawker Siddeley Aviation, by this time, the parent of de Havilland, needed additional customers for the Trident, so entered into discussions with American Airlines (AA) in 1960. They demanded an aircraft with a longer range, which meant that the original DH121 design would have fulfilled America...
ground. It was the worst air disaster in the history of Los Angeles and resulted in regulatory changes requiring all airliners to be equipped with traffic alert and collision avoidance systems (TCAS) and all light aircraft operating in terminal control areas be equipped with a mode C transponder...
Airplane Picture - Waco 10 giving joy rides, c.1930 Waco 10 :Most produced model of any Waco aircraft, 1,623 built between 1927 and 1933. Refinement of Waco 9 with 90 hp (67 kW) Curtiss OX-5 V8 engine. Redesignated GXE by Waco in 1928. ...