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HoOmAn

Keeper of the Sacred Block Coefficient

Posts: 7,417

Saturday, February 24th 2007, 5:33pm

Collecting Archives!

Folks,

do you know any good online archives about aircrafts of the period ~1920-1950? I´d appreciate any link you can come up with, no priorities regarding nationality. Means I´m not focused on German, American or Russion planes...

Thanks,

HoOmAn

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Red Admiral

Italian Stallion

Posts: 7,019

Saturday, February 24th 2007, 6:15pm

Unfortunately the Military Aircraft Database (MAD) seems to have been lost into cyberspace.

It used to be here. But I know it's author E Gustin does post elsewhere on the internet so I may ask him whats happened.

Wikipedia is actually a pretty good source for aircraft. For Italian planes then the Italian-language wikipedia is best obviously and the same holds true for others.

This catalog is Russian is an excellent source.

Greg Goebel's Online Magazine is a good source as well.

My other stuff is just mainly for Italian planes and Italian language.

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CanisD

Professional

Posts: 1,464

Saturday, February 24th 2007, 6:31pm

http://www.aero-web.org/
http://www.aerofiles.com/home.html
Pretty good references for US aircraft. The aerofiles site has been especially useful, to the point that I copied the entire "Aircraft A-Z" section onto my drive. It also has a great many articles of interest.

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "CanisD" (Feb 24th 2007, 6:42pm)

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Kaiser Kirk

Lightbringer and former European Imperialist

Posts: 3,605

Saturday, February 24th 2007, 9:00pm

I use this for the background of Fokker designs.

http://www.dutch-aviation.nl/index5/Mili…0Aircrafts.html

I've got one for Koolhovon and some others on my work comp.

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Swamphen

Mr. Dynamite

Posts: 4,191

Sunday, February 25th 2007, 5:18am

Quoted

Unfortunately the Military Aircraft Database (MAD) seems to have been lost into cyberspace.

It used to be here. But I know it's author E Gustin does post elsewhere on the internet so I may ask him whats happened.

A-rink-a-dink:
New location

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thesmilingassassin

The Chosen One

Posts: 13,513

Sunday, February 25th 2007, 5:38am

Quoted

Originally posted by Swamphen

Quoted

Unfortunately the Military Aircraft Database (MAD) seems to have been lost into cyberspace.

It used to be here. But I know it's author E Gustin does post elsewhere on the internet so I may ask him whats happened.

A-rink-a-dink:
New location

I get the link but the pages under the country headings do not work! You have to look alphabetically.

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Red Admiral

Italian Stallion

Posts: 7,019

Sunday, February 25th 2007, 10:45am

Wes, If you click on one of the countries an A-Z appears at the top of the page. Say I click "Italy" then "G" then "G.50 Freccia, Fiat"

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Johan

Trainee

Posts: 69

Sunday, February 25th 2007, 11:14am

Hello!
I am a lurker on this site, but i enjoy it.
I have this aircraft link
http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww15
It is parted in eras first Worldwar, between war, WW II, coldwar and modern.
/J

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thesmilingassassin

The Chosen One

Posts: 13,513

Sunday, February 25th 2007, 2:51pm

Thanks Johan!

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Desertfox

Ambitious Packrat

Posts: 4,058

Monday, February 26th 2007, 2:22am

RA what sites do you use for Italian planes?

Does anyone have good linedrawings of the Curtiss XP-23?

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CanisD

Professional

Posts: 1,464

Monday, February 26th 2007, 3:29am

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Desertfox

Ambitious Packrat

Posts: 4,058

Monday, February 26th 2007, 4:04am

Thanks! I see you have: U.S. Fighters 1925 to 1980s.

Nice site I just found. Has alot of nice line drawings.I'm calling dibs on the Douglas DC-5.
http://www.airwarfareforum.com/

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Swamphen

Mr. Dynamite

Posts: 4,191

Monday, February 26th 2007, 4:11am

Poor Canis...

...watching the vultures pull apart the U.S. aviation industry...

(sneaks out the back door with the Stearman XA-21 tucked under a trenchcoat)

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Desertfox

Ambitious Packrat

Posts: 4,058

Monday, February 26th 2007, 4:43am

Well it just happens that the US Aviation Industry is the most profilic and best documented one of them all. That helps alot for those of us in the fictional aircraft business.

*points at Swampy sneaking out the back to distract attention, while stuffing the briefcase with more US designs...*