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Do you know anything about this topic? Share your expertise with our thousands of visitors each day by submitting your quality, informative 'Aviation' article, and if you become a member we will pay you for your unique and original work (note that all submissions are reviewed by our editors). Your Aviation Guide is Michael Russell. Recent articles submitted to your independent guide to Aviation 1. Aviation - The Early Days - By: Michael Russell Since the dawn of time humans have wanted to mimic birds and soar through the heavens. People commonly think human flight began in the 1900s with the invention of the airplane. However, people had been flying for over 100 years before. The first known flight of an unmanned craft was carried out some... Featured ArticleThe Tiger Moth The deHavilland DH 82 Tiger Moth, to give it its full name, was developed from the Gypsy Moth and the Moth before that. The Tiger Moth first flew in 1931, and became a basic flight trainer for the RAF with a first order of 35 aircraft. The Tiger Moth was not the easiest aircraft to fly, with controls that were sloppy and slow to react to input. The story is that the RAF purposely chose a craft with these characteristics in order to aid the flight instructors, because those flaw ...
Read full story 2. Gulfstream – Six Models For Business Aviation - By: Michael Russell Gulfstream has achieved a reputation for outstanding quality and performance over the past 48 years. Gulfstream offers a family of programs and services that meet the aviation needs of its customers in addition to their expanded product line of six business jets. The large-cabin, ultra-long-range ... 3. Jets – Top 10 Luxury Aircraft - By: Michael Russell Here are the top ten luxury aircraft in the world, flown by or for the few who can afford them, ranging from middle eastern oil sheiks to businessmen to stars of the screen and stage. Number 1. - Boeing Business Jet This heavy aircraft was introduced in 1996 by Boeing. Since then, it has sold 91... 4. Helicopters – Some Frequently Asked Questions - By: Michael Russell What happens when a helicopter's engine fails? In a multi-engine helicopter, the remaining engine will still be able to power the rotors and therefore normal flight will be able to be maintained. However the question you probably have by now already asked yourself, "What happens if I lose my only en... 5. The Development Of The Helicopter - By: Michael Russell "A helicopter is an assembly of forty thousand loose pieces, flying more or less in formation" The famous line from a jokester in the Korean War. Although fixed-wing aircraft receive all the attention by most historians, helicopter flight was the first flight envisioned by man. In fact, the ancien... 6. The De Havilland Dhc-6 Twin Otter - By: Michael Russell Everyone in the industry agrees that the Twin Otter became a great Canadian aviation success story. It’s a twin-engine, modified and enlarged version of the DHC-3 Otter which was designed as a bush plane but soon filled an important niche worldwide as a commuter airliner. It has had a great impact o... 7. The De Havilland Dhc-2 Beaver - By: Michael Russell Some of the worst flying conditions found anywhere in the world exist over the densely forested terrain of the Canadian north woods and sub-arctic regions. In addition to being subjected to long, blizzard-filled winters, the millions of square miles that stretch between the Labrador Sea and the Nort... 8. The F-22 And The Fighter Aircraft’s Future - By: Michael Russell Without doubt, the most exiting combat aircraft of the early 21st century is the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor. A far different aircraft from anything preceding it, the F-22’s development history reflects the many problems, both technological and financial, than can beset an advanced system of its kin... 9. Aviation - Really Part Of Our Lives - By: Michael Russell I often wonder how things affect the way I live. In particular something like aviation. We tend to think of it as a means of transport and of course it is. But how much of a role does aviation actually play in our lives? Let’s first look at just one aircraft. Take the Boeing 737. First introduced ... 10. The English Electric Lightning - By: Michael Russell Only the RAF, of all the world’s airforces, made the jump from subsonic to Mach Two fighter with no “Mach One plus” intermediary. They replaced the Hawker Hunter day fighter and the Gloster Javelin all-weather fighter with the Mach 2 English Electric (later BAC) Lightning. The Lightning had its orig... 11. The B-50 Superfortress - By: Michael Russell Officially, the justification by the USAF for the new B-50 designation was made on the basis that the changes introduced by the B-29D were so major that it was essentially a completely new aircraft. The ruse worked, and the B-50 survived the cutbacks to become an important component of the postwar A... 12. The Raf Lockheed Ventura Light Bomber - By: Michael Russell The Lockheed Ventura was the result of a September 1939 proposal by Lockheed to the British Air Ministry for a military version of the Model 18 Lodestar twin-engined 15/18-passenger commercial transport. It was viewed as a successor to the Lockheed Hudson in RAF service. The Hudson was itself a mili... 13. World War Ii - The Foo Fighters - By: Michael Russell Foo Fighters was the name used for numerous unexplained phenomena in WW II, as well as being used in a derogatory sense. Some pilots over Europe called them “Kraut balls”. In the Pacific Theater, it was how some pilots referred to the Japanese fliers who were infamous for their erratic flying. Foo f... 14. The Armstrong-whitworth Whitley Mkv Bomber - By: Michael Russell In 1934 the British Air Ministry issued a requirement for a heavy bomber as one of the steps in the British rearmament program, The new aircraft would be a cantilever monoplane of all metal construction, with advanced features for the time, such as and enclosed flight deck, retractable landing gear,... 15. The First Rocket Powered Airplanes - By: Michael Russell In 1947, the first recorded flight in excess of the sound barrier was recorded. This was the famous flight of Air force Captain Chuck Yeager in the Bell X-1 rocket powered aircraft. There are disputes that other pilots had previously broken the sound barrier but their claims were not substantiated. ... 16. The Vickers Vimy Mk Iv - By: Michael Russell The Vimy Mk IV bi-plane is of enormous historical importance as the airplane on which the first non-stop aerial crossing of the Atlantic Ocean was completed. This occurred in June 1919 when Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten-Brown flew a Vickers owned Vimy Mk IV with additional fuel t... 17. C-119 Flying Boxcar - By: Michael Russell The C-119 was a redesign of an earlier Fairchild transport design, the C-82 Packet, which was built for the USAAF between 1945 and 1948. While the Packet provided valuable service to the Air Force's Tactical Air Command and Military Air Transport Service for nearly nine years, its design had some li... 18. Pan American Airways - From Auckland To Khartoum - By: Michael Russell Pan Am’s "Pacific Clipper" was just a few hours out of Auckland, New Zealand when the Radio Operator picked up the transmission of the news that Pearl Harbor had been attacked and that the USA was at war. It was Dec, 1941 and the Captain, Robert Ford, quickly realized that they would not be able to ... 19. A Brief History Of Aviation - 1908 Onwards - By: Michael Russell This is part two of a two-part review of Aviation from its beginnings to the present day. It is a subjective look at a few of the highlights in the development of Aviation over the centuries. Glenn Hammond Curtiss who was well known in the aviation field by 1908, won the first American award, the ... 20. A Brief History Of Aviation - The Beginnings - By: Michael Russell This is part one of a two-part review of Aviation from its beginnings to the present day. It is a subjective look at a few of the highlights in the development of Aviation over the centuries. The generally accepted definition of Aviation is the design, manufacture, use, or operation of aircraft - ... 21. Aviation - A Brief History - By: Michael Russell Humans' desire to fly probably dates back to prehistoric man. Some people think human flight starting with the airplane in the 1900s. But in fact, people had already been soaring for about 120 years. Around the 9th century the Muslim Moors Armen Firman and Abbas Qasim Ibn Firnas ar... 22. Aviation - Between The Heaven And Earth - By: Michael Russell People have probably wanted to learn how to fly, since the time they conceived their first thought. It seems to be the nature of humans, to push the limits of what they can do, regardless of how illogical it may be. The pursuit of flight may have been a more prevalent thought, than those... 23. The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy - By: Michael Russell The Lockheed-Georgia C-5 is one of the largest aircraft in the world. It can carry outsize and oversize cargo with intercontinental ranges and can take off or land in relatively short distances. Ground crews can load and off load the C-5 simultaneously at the front and rear cargo opening... 24. The B-47e Stratojet - By: Michael Russell The B-47E Stratojet was the major production version of the B-47 and it was the only version that was mass-produced by all three members of the production pool, Lockheed, Douglas and Boeing. The B-47E was basically the standardized production version of the Stratojet and incorporated many inno... 25. The B-52h Stratofortress - By: Michael Russell The B-52 was first designed as a turboprop driven version of the B-36 in 1948, but it never got off the drawing board. It was not until 1951 that the B-52A was cleared for limited production, in fact only three were built. It went through numerous design and equipment modifications with ... Please feel free to submit your quality, informative article for our readers. |
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