Bombing airplanes, including dive bombers and torpedo bombers
Italian single-seater biplane of World War One
Across the Carnic Alps, the self-styled warrior-poet Gabriele d’Annunzio, flew with eleven Ansaldo biplanes of the 87a Squadriglia, in a dramatic long-distance bombing raid on Vienna, August 9, 1918. They arrived over the ancient capital of the Hapsburgs and rained down a lethal storm of … leaflets … encouraging [...]
Whether equipped with floats as a seaplane or with a landing gear, the Standard twin- motored seaplane is of a size that is commonly termed a battle plane. It has a total weight of 2 1/2 tons fully loaded and, at an economical speed, has a cruising range of 450 miles. The fuel tanks, carried [...]
The chief distinguishing feature of the Gallaudet seaplane is the employment a four-blade propeller acting as a pusher in connection with a fuselage design similar in most respects to the tractor type.
Top Speed: 92 m.p.h.
Engine: two Duesenberg inlines
Wingspan: 47 feet
Weight: 4,600 pounds
Specifications from “Practical Aviation,†by Charles Hayward, 1919
The manner in [...]
Curtiss “Cruiser”.
Top Speed: n.a.
Engine: two Curtiss eight-cylinders
Wingspan: 75.8 feet
Weight: over 4,000 pounds
Specifications from “Practical Aviation,†by Charles Hayward, 1919
Designed for sporting rather than for military use, the design and equipment of the Curtiss “cruiser”, afford an indication of the trend that development undoubtedly will take once the war is over. It [...]
Perhaps the most remarkable achievement of 1912 was the Curtiss flying-boat. Glenn Curtiss, who won the James Gordon Bennett race in 1909, had succeeded in rising from the water in 1913 with a similar biplane fitted with a central pontoon float instead of a wheeled under-carriage. This he made into a genuine flying-boat, consisting [...]
Most widely produced military aircraft of the interwar period
The “Question Mark” made the Paris – New York flight in 1930
an aircraft featured on the Hall of Fame of the Air
Captain Dieudonne Costes and navigator Maurice Bellonte flew this specially modified red Breguet 19, “Point d’Interrogation,” or “Question Mark” on the first non-stop, Paris to [...]
A postwar French multi-purpose military aircraft. Designed in the 1920s as a mail carrier the Latécoère 26 first flew in 1926, based on the earlier Latécoère 25 with a longer fuselage. It had a parasol wing with a fixed tailskid landing gear
Col. Charles Kerwood, an American who served with the French and Greek armies, as [...]
The Martin MB-1 or Glenn Martin Bomber (GMB) was the first U.S.-designed bomber procured by the U.S. Army in quantity in the World War I era. The Martin GMB was first flown on Aug. 15, 1918, and nine of the 10 aircraft ordered were completed before the end of WWI. The MB-1’s primary mission was [...]
The De Haviland DH-4 was the only US built aircraft to see combat during World War I.
photo taken about 1922, location unknown.
While American-built DH-4’s served in WWI, the plane was a British design.
The B-10 was the first USAAC all-metal monoplane bomber to be built in numbers. Its innovations included: internal bomb storage, retractable landing gear, a rotating gun turret, and enclosed cockpit. It was much faster than its contemporary biplane bombers and as fast as most fighters of the day. The USAAC’s order of 121 B-10s [...]
