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Interwar military aircraft are military aircraft that were developed and used between World War I and World War II, also known as the Golden Age of Aviation. For the purposes of this list this is defined as aircraft that entered service into any country's military after the armistice on 11 November 1918 and before the Invasion of Poland on 1 ...
The areas of the world covered by commercial air routes in 1925. Sometimes dubbed the Golden Age of Aviation, [1] the period in the history of aviation between the end of World War I (1918) and the beginning of World War II (1939) was characterised by a progressive change from the slow wood-and-fabric biplanes of World War I to fast, streamlined metal monoplanes, creating a revolution in both ...
This is a list of aircraft of Czechoslovakia during the interwar period. This list aims to show aircraft of the Czechoslovak Air Force during the interwar period hence it does not include prototypes of Czechoslovak aircraft.
Pages in category "Military equipment of the interwar period" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... List of interwar military aircraft; O.
A list of aircraft used by Italy during World War II until its capitulation to the Allies in September 1943. After that Italy was divided in two states, the Axis Italian Social Republic in the north and the Allied Kingdom of Italy in the south. Both countries had their own Air Force fitted with formerly used Italian aircraft and other nations ...
World Aircraft - Origins-World War 1. London: Sampson Low. Davilla, James (1997). French aircraft of the first World War. Flying Machines Press. Green, William; Swanborough, Gordon (1994). The complete book of fighters. Salamander. ISBN 978-0-8317-3939-3. Jane, F.T. All the World's Aircraft 1913 (1913). London: Sampson Low, facsimile reprint ...
The Fokker Eindecker fighters were a series of German World War I monoplane single-seat fighter aircraft designed by Dutch engineer Anthony Fokker. [2] Developed in April 1915, the first Eindecker ("Monoplane") was the first purpose-built German fighter aircraft and the first aircraft to be fitted with a synchronization gear, enabling the pilot to fire a machine gun through the arc of the ...
The aircraft was designed by Nikolai Polikarpov to replace the U-1 trainer (a copy of the British Avro 504), which was known as Avrushka to the Soviets. [6]The prototype of the U-2, powered by a 74 kW (99 hp) Shvetsov M-11 air-cooled five-cylinder radial engine, first flew on 7 January 1928 piloted by M.M. Gromov. [6]