Boeing B-17F radar bombing through clouds: Bremen, Germany, November 13, 1943. The B-17s (Boeing Flying Fortress) are members of the 384th Bombardment Group…
The British Concorde fleet at London Heathrow Airport, January 21, 1986. The occasion was the 10-year anniversary of British Concorde flight service, which…
The Doolittle Raid: America’s First Strike Back on Japan A B-25 bomber takes off from the flight deck of the USS Hornet on…
In the mid-1930s, Hispano-Suiza developed the Type 86 engine specifically for use in railcars. A railcar is a self-propelled railroad coach meant to…
George Bennie was born near Glasgow, Scotland in 1892 (some say 1891). From a young age, he became interested in rail travel. By…
Just after World War II, OKB-500 (Opytno-Konstruktorskoye Byuro-500 or Experimental Design Bureau-500) in Tushino (now part of Moscow), Russia was tasked with building…
In 1943, Simmering-Graz-Pauker (SGP) in Vienna, Austria was tasked by the Heereswaffenamt (HWA, German Army Weapons Agency) to develop a new main tank engine for…
Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz (KHD) Dz 700, Dz 710, and Dz 720 The German engine manufacturer Deutz AG can trace its roots back to the inventor of…
Junkers Jumo 223 Aircraft Engine In 1892, Hugo Junkers began experimental development of two-stroke, opposed-piston, gas engines. By 1910, Junkers had combined the opposed-piston…
Isotta Fraschini W-18 Aircraft and Marine Engines In late 1924, the Italian firm Isotta Fraschini responded to a Ministero dell’Aeronautica (Italian Air Ministry) request for a…