Many times referred to as the aircraft that changed the world, the DC-3 had a great impact on the airline industry in the 1930s/1940 and on World War II. For that, we have to thank C.R. Smith, American Airlines CEO. Smith persuaded Donald Douglas through a marathon telephone call into designing an aircraft based on…
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F-104, an Starfighter
Evolution is a curious process,while searching for wealth and advantages mistakes and weird combinations can happen. In aeronautics it happens too. Our todays look is for one of those weird steps in evolution, those that one is not sure to hate or love instead. I`m talking about a huge jump in aerospace technology, maybe too…
The ‘Caspian Sea Monster’
After being abandoned for decades, the Lun-Class Ekranoplan faces a new life as museum. The history of the “Caspian Sea Monster” as CIA called it, or KM (Korabl Maket, which in Russian means Ship-prototype, the original name), starts in the 1960’s when the Soviet Union experimented with ground effect vehicles, basically, airplane-like vehicles that fly only…