American Attack Aircraft, Part 8: Contribution of Gerard Valtí
In 1932, aviation enthusiast Gerard Valtí secured financial backing from automotive magnate E. L. Cord and founded the Airplane Development ...
Tag: History of Aviation
American Attack Aircraft, Part 7: John Northrop’s “Gamma”
In the first half of the 1930s, the U.S. aviation industry was introducing new civilian aircraft one after another. These ...
American Attack Aircraft, Part 6: Experiments of the 1930s
In parallel with the production and deployment of the A-12 attack aircraft, the U.S. Army Air Corps tested several other ...
First American Attack Aircraft, Part 5: Production A-12 “Shrike”
Although Curtiss won the 1931 competition for a new attack aircraft, its A-8 did not enter mass production. The main ...
First American Attack Aircraft, Part 4: On the Eve of the 1930s
In the early 1930s, the U.S. finally introduced its first production attack aircraft: the Curtiss A-3 biplane. The plane proved ...
American Attack Aircraft, Part 3: The First Production Variants
As mentioned in the previous part, in 1925 the leadership of the U.S. Army Air Service concluded that large, armored ...
First American Attack Aircrafts, Part 2: Alternative Projects of the Early 1920s
The GA-1 and GA-2 aircraft, discussed in the first part of this series, were not the only early American attempts ...
The First American Attack Aircrafts: Development Path, Part 1
I’m willing to bet that many of my readers are fans of one of the iconic American combat aircraft – the A-10 ...
The Mi-26: Rise and Decline of the World’s Largest Production Cargo Helicopter
It all started in the early 1970s when Soviet leadership set a goal to develop a helicopter capable of transporting ...