Copyright 2004 Amber Books Ltd Copyright 2004 De Agostini UK Ltd

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2 Copyright 2004 Amber Books Ltd Copyright 2004 De Agostini UK Ltd Published in 2004 by an imprint of Bookmart Ltd Registered Number Trading as Bookmart Ltd Blaby Road Wigston Leicester LE18 4SE Silverdale Books All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright holder. ISBN Editorial and design by Amber Books Ltd Bradley's Close White Lion Street London NI 9PF Authors: Robert Jackson, Martin W. Bowman, Ewan Project Editor: J ames Bennett Design: Graham Curd Picture Research: Natasha Jones, Sandra Assersohn Partridge Printed in Singapore

3 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION... 8 A Ader AEG Aerfer Aeritalia Aermacchi Aero Aeronca Aerospatiale Agusta Agusta-Bell Aichi AIDC Air Department Airbus Airco Airspeed Albatros Amiot ANF Ansaldo Antoinette Antonov Arado Armstrong Whitworth Atlas Auster Avia Avian Aviat Aviatik Avions Fairey Avions de Transport Regional Avro B... BAC.58 Bachem Barling Beagle Beardmore Beech Bell Bellanca Bell-Boeing Bensen Berezniak-Isayev Beriev Berliner Blackburn Bleriot Bloch Blohm und Voss Boeing Boeing-Stearman Boeing-Vertol Bombardier Boulton Paul Brantly A magnificent air-to-air shot of the X-35 advanced tactical fighter during flight refuelling trials with a KC-135 tanker aircraft. Two versions of the X-35 were proposed, one V/STOL and one conventional. Bratukhin Breda Breguet Brewster Bristol British Aerospace British Army Britten-Norman Biicker Burnelli C CAB Canadair CANT Caproni Caproni-Campini CASA Caudron Cayley CEA Cessna Chance Vought Chilton Chrislea Cierva Coanda Cody Commonwealth Comper Consolidated Convair Cornu Couzinet Curtiss Curtiss-Wright D Dassault De Havilland Dewoitine DFS DoblhofflWHF Dornier Douglas Druine E EH Industries Ellehammer Embraer Enstrom Entwicklungsring-Sud Erco Eurocopter Eurofighter F Fairchild Fairchild Republic Fairchild-Dornier Fairchild-Hiller Fairey Farman Felixstowe FFA FFVS Fiat Fieseler Flettner FMA Focke-Angelis Focke-Wulf Fokker Folland Ford Fouga Fournier Friedrichshafen Fuji G Galaxy Aerospace General Dynamics Gloster Gloster-Whittle Gotha Grigorovich Grob Grumman H HAL Halberstadt Handley Page Hannover

4 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AIRCRAFT A Harrier GR.7, the RAF's equivalent of the US Marine Corps' AV-SB, pictured at the point of transition from vertical to horizontal flight. Hanriot Hansa-Brandenburg Hawker Hawker-Siddeley Heinkel Henschel Henson HiIler Hispano Horten Huff-Daland Hughes Hunting I IAI IAR Ikarus Ilyushin Interstate J Junkers K Kaman Kamov Kawanishi Kawasaki Keystone Klemm Koolhoven Kyushu L Lake Langley Latecoere Lavochkin Learjet Leduc LET Levasseur Lilienthal Liore et Olivier Lippisch LIoyd Lockheed Lockheed Martin Loire-Nieuport Luscombe LV G LWS M Macchi Makhonine Martin Martin-Baker Martinsyde Maule Max Holste MBB McDonnelI McDonnelI Douglas Messerschmitt Mignet Mikoyan-Gurevich MIL Miles Mitsubishi Mooney Morane-Saulnier Mortimer and Vaughan Myasishchev N Nakajima NAMC Nanchang Naval Aircraft Factory Nieuport Nieuport-Delage Noorduyn Nord North American Northrop N orthrop-grumman Northrop-McDonnelI Douglas Oemichen P Panavia Pemberton -Billing Percival Pescara Petlyakov Pfalz Piaggio Piasecki Piel Pi latus PiIcher Piper Polikarpov Potez PZL R Raytheon Reggiane Republic RFB Robin Robinson RockwelI Roe Rohrbach RoJand Royal Aircraft Factory Rutan Ryan s. Saab Santos-Dumont Saro Saro-Cierva Savoia-Marchetti Scottish Aviation

5 CONTENTS SEPECAT Seversky Shin Meiwa Short Short-Bristow Siebel Siemens-Schuckert Sikorsky SIPA Skoda-Kauba Slingsby SNCA SNECMA Socata SOKO Sopwith SPAD Spartan Stampe et Vertongen Stinson Stringfellow Sud-Aviation Sud-Est Sud-Ouest Sukhoi Superrnarine Svenska T Tachikawa Tchetverikov Temco Thomas-Morse The sole Curtiss NC-4, today preserved in the US Naval Air Museum. Glenn Curtiss devoted a great deal of energy to the production of seaplanes, but production was curtailed with the end of World War I. Tipsy Transall TsAGI Tupolev V VEB Vickers VL Vought Vought -Sikorsky Vultee W Z Wallis Westland Wright Wright-Bellanca y Yakovlev Yerrnolayev Yokosuka Zeppelin Staaken Zlin GLOSSARY INDEX PICTURE CREDITS Known as 'Whistling Death' to the Japanese, the Vought F4U Corsair also performed with distinction in the Korean War.

6 A comprehensive and fully-illustrated guide to over a century of aviation history, from the earliest biplanes to modern jet fighters Featuring over 3000 aircraft from more than 1000 manufacturers, from AAMSA to Zlin Illustrated with over 1000 colour and black-and-white photographs and colour proflle artworks Includes specification tables for key aircraft with a wealth of technical information including dimensions, performance and powerplant Covers the history of each major aircraft type, with detailed information on prototypes, development, subsequent production variants md service record ISBN >