The Type VIII marked another turning point for Blériot. This monoplane, built and repeatedly modified in 1908, looked akin to its predecessor but had significant changes. Most critically ...

The Robin Goch (Welsh for 'robin redbreast') is one of the few amateur aeroplanes built before 1914 to survive and it one of the earliest examples of aircraft in the United Kingdom. Built by Charles ...

Discoveries: Thurston’s diagrams of tests on a Bristol Monoplane, 1917. This diagram is detailing a test that took place in 1917, on the Bristol Monoplane. These tests and developments of planes were ...

Fabre, who accomplished this feat with a monoplane of his own invention the last of March, 1910. About a year later Glenn Curtiss, at San Diego, fitted a float to his biplane and made it rise from ...

Called the "Akai Tsubasa Project" (Red wing project) in tribute to the cutting-edge Caudron Simoun monoplane that Japy flew at the time, the bilateral initiative was suggested by Nicolas Japy ...

The pilot's seat came from a kitchen chair. Watkins said that he had flown the monoplane on several occasions in and around Cardiff sometime before 1914. There are no reports or evidence to ...