As a young girl growing up in the 1920s, I always wanted to fly a plane, but back then it was almost unheard of for a woman to do that. I got a taste of that dream in 2001, when my husband arranged for me to ride in a hot air balloon for my birthday. But the experience tur...
During the 1930s, the Italian Ministry of Aviation (Ministero dell’aeronautica) was interested in adopting a new, all-metal monoplane fighter and ground-attack aircraft for the Italian Air Force (Regia Aeronautica). In April of 1935, engineer Giuseppe Gabrielli began working on a new low-wing,...
When journalism soared: The Deseret News had a plane in the early 1920s, when aviation was newCarma Wadley Deseret Morning News
Precision was their weakest point, and by late 1944, when they were used en mass, the Germans simply lacked the means to observe their effectiveness against targets in Great Britain and could not correct the aim of the rockets. The Me 262 was also far from perfect, given the technological ...
Local govern-ment officials have agreed to leave as many trees intactas possible.Plane trees were planted in the late 1920s along themain road to Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum(陵寝) to honorthe founding father of the Republic of China (19121949). Locals consider the green friends an importantpart...
John and Horace Dodge of Niles, MI, are well known for the automobiles that still bear their name and are sold today. The boat company started by the same family is little known. Both Dodge brothers passed away in 1920, but Horace's namesake, Horace E. Dodge, Jr., was most interested...
Unfortunately, the Autoplane failed to live up to such breathless hype. In flight tests the vehicle proved too heavy and underpowered and only managed to make a few short hops off the ground. While Curtiss was confident these issues could be resolved, America’s entry into the First World Wa...
during the defense of Wake Island in Dec 1941. Dad was a cavalry trooper in the 5th US Cavalry regiment at Fort Clark, Texas in the 1920s (click on his pictures). By the time WW2 started he already had 8 years of active duty and was now a valued member of the Coke Oven Dept at...
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Much of this work focused on using rockets to power aircraft, exemplified by Fritz von Opel’s experimental work in the 1920s. Von Opel was assisted by another prominent aircraft designer Alexander Martin Lippisch. While technically speaking these were not real rocket-powered flights, given that ...