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Early flying machines include all forms of aircraft studied or constructed before the development of the modern aeroplane by 1910. The story of modern flight begins more than a century before the first successful manned aeroplane, and the earliest aircraft thousands of years before.
1888 Herard Flying machine [1] 1888 Johnston Helicopter; 1888 Wolfert Airship; 1889 Hargrave Flying machine; 1890 Ader Eole; 1890 Tatin and Richet Flying machine (1890–1897) 1891 Capazza Airship; 1891 Hargrave Monoplane; 1891 Lilienthal Derwitzer glider; 1891 Matyunin Mikst airship (mixed HTA-LTA I. A. Matyunin) 1891 Ninomiya Karasu and ...
This is a list of equipment of the British Army currently in use. It includes current equipment such as small arms, combat vehicles, explosives, missile systems, engineering vehicles, logistical vehicles, vision systems, communication systems, aircraft, watercraft, artillery, air defence, transport vehicles, as well as future equipment and equipment being trialled.
The following timeline of British military aviation covers the military aviation activities of the British Armed Forces from its origins in the 19th century to the present day: 1863 - Henry Coxwell demonstrates tethered balloon ascents to British Army personnel at Aldershot; 1878 - Balloon experiments are conducted at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich
The Birth of Military Aviation: Britain 1903-1914. Woodbridge: The Boydel Press for the Royal Historical Society. ISBN 0-86193234-X. Goodall, Michael H.; Albert Tagg (2000). British Aeroplanes Before the Great War. Schiffer Publishing. ISBN 0764312073. Hare, Paul R. (1990). The Royal Aircraft Factory. London: Putnam. ISBN 0-85177-843-7.
Cody in front of the frame of the British Army Aeroplane No 1. Samuel Franklin Cody in 1910. Later in 1907 the Army decided to back the development of his powered aeroplane, the British Army Aeroplane No 1. After just under a year of construction, he started testing the machine in September 1908, gradually lengthening his "hops" until they ...
Early DH.2 taking off from airfield at Beauvel, France 32 Squadron RFC personnel, in front of a DH.2 at Beauval, 1916 After evaluation at Hendon on 22 June 1915, the first DH.2 arrived in France for operational trials with No. 5 RFC Squadron but was shot down and its pilot killed during early August 1915. [ 5 ]
The Boxkite (officially the Bristol Biplane) was the first aircraft produced by the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company (later known as the Bristol Aeroplane Company).A pusher biplane based on the successful Farman III, it was one of the first aircraft types to be built in quantity.