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The Bellanca 28-92 (construction no. 903) was developed by Giuseppe Bellanca in 1937 for Capt. Alexandru Papana. Papana was a Romanian Air Force…
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Roscoe Turner, ever the showman, with his impeccable custom uniform and well trimmed mustache. Turner once admitted that he did not like wearing…
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Since the early 1900s, Frenchman Louis Bréguet was interested in rotorcraft. But, the technical challenges of controlling such machines and the lack of…
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Born in 1852, Irish inventor Louis Philip Brennan had contemplated the concept of a flying machine (helicopter) as early as 1884. However, the…
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In 1916, Major Stephan Petróczy von Petrócz of the Austro-Hungarian Army envisioned replacing hydrogen-filled observation balloons with tethered helicopters. These helicopters would have…
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The Papin-Rouilly Gyroptere as depicted on the cover of the September 1922 edition of Popular Science. The Gyroptere was designed in France from 1911-1914 by…
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Francois Guidobaldi was born in 1888 and lived in Antibes, France, near Nice and the Italian boarder. In the early 1900s, Guidobaldi became…
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At the time of its introduction, the Sikorsky S-56 was the largest and fastest military helicopter in the Western world. In 1956, the…
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Ernest Archdeacon was an early proponent of the automobile and aviation. Before 1900, Archdeacon had participated in several automobile races, and he founded…
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One of the oddest Grand Prix race cars ever built was the 1935 Monaco Trossi. Built by Augusto Camillo Pietro Monaco and funded…
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As World War II started to gain momentum and become a global conflict, Australia realized that it was in a precarious position. In…