In the test pilot thread I mentioned Hanna Reitsch and some of her aircraft flown. I mentioned the See Adler (Sea Eagle) amphibian glider which most of you have never heard of. Here is a photo of it(1935): http://es.geocities.com/los_caranchos/images/F44.jpg This was Hans Jacobs designed glider...

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=432065&section=news Rob

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/rnii.html Interesting page on Russian prewar rockets, among them the 212 cruise missile. Rob

http://www.redding.com/top_stories/local/20031218toplo048.shtml .... and he used modern materials as well... Rob

Rare 1942 photo of Me-109 atop a DFS 230 further down the page: http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/aircraft/WWII/DFS230-glider/info/info.htm Rob

In the test pilot thread I mentioned Hanna Reitsch and some of her aircraft flown. I mentioned the See Adler (Sea Eagle) amphibian glider which most of you have never heard of. Here is a photo of it(1935): http://es.geocities.com/los_caranchos/images/F44.jpg This was Hans Jacobs designed glider...

In the test pilot thread I mentioned Hanna Reitsch and some of her aircraft flown. I mentioned the See Adler (Sea Eagle) amphibian glider which most of you have never heard of. Here is a photo of it(1935): http://es.geocities.com/los_caranchos/images/F44.jpg This was Hans Jacobs designed glider...

In the test pilot thread I mentioned Hanna Reitsch and some of her aircraft flown. I mentioned the See Adler (Sea Eagle) amphibian glider which most of you have never heard of. Here is a photo of it(1935): http://es.geocities.com/los_caranchos/images/F44.jpg This was Hans Jacobs designed glider...

In the test pilot thread I mentioned Hanna Reitsch and some of her aircraft flown. I mentioned the See Adler (Sea Eagle) amphibian glider which most of you have never heard of. Here is a photo of it(1935): http://es.geocities.com/los_caranchos/images/F44.jpg This was Hans Jacobs designed glider...

In the test pilot thread I mentioned Hanna Reitsch and some of her aircraft flown. I mentioned the See Adler (Sea Eagle) amphibian glider which most of you have never heard of. Here is a photo of it(1935): http://es.geocities.com/los_caranchos/images/F44.jpg This was Hans Jacobs designed glider...

Data: Dassault SAAB JAS 39 Rafale Gripen Crew: 1 (C/M) 1 2 (B/BM) 2 (B) Engine: 2 SNECMA 1 Volvo Aero M88-2 RM12 16,850 lb 18,100 lb each ...

http://www.flyingmachines.org/jatho.html Another aviation pioneer who flew in 1903 Rob

http://www.deepsky.com/~firstflight/ Lots of good info here with documentation, photos of aircraft and engines, affadavits, etc... For those who really are interested in who flew first... Rob

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1071660144004_47/?hub=CTVNewsAt11 .... as expected... despite $1.2 mil invested and painstaking attention to detail. At least the two GW No.21 replicas both flew easily. IMO, the Wrights lucked out last century with a rail, right wind,...

http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/06/11/30172.html Too bad they got the history wrong. The Germans had it first during WW2 with Baumgartl's Heliofly III: http://www.germanvtol.com/baumgartl/baungertl.html Rob

Looks like a plane, but isn't: http://www.windjet.co.uk/land/vehicle.php Rob

http://www.matthewstinson.com/blog/archives/000997.html Rob

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031213/APN/312130537 Rob p.s. At least the GW No.21 replicas built by two different historical societies, in two different nations, at two different times, with two different pilots (one of which was a Luftwaffe pilot) flew easily. That...

http://www.rexresearch.com/searl2/searl3.htm Rob

http://www.raravia.com/img/trivia0206.gif Its on the trivia page of that site but not identified. Very strange indeed. The main body and canopy look post WW2... but then there's the fixed gear with twin boom tails on the ground. Pusher engine looks unfamiliar too... Anyone seen this thing...