Copyright © 2004Amber Books Ltd Copyright © 2004De Agostini UK Ltd Published in 2004by Silverdale Books an imprint of Bookmart Ltd Registered Number 2372865 Trading as Bookmart Ltd Blaby Road Wigston Leicester LE18 4SE 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 1-85605-887-5 Editorial and design by Amber Books Ltd Bradley's Close 74-77White Lion Street London NI 9PF www.amberbooks.co.uk Authors: Robert Jackson, Martin W. Bowman, Ewan Partridge Project Editor: J ames Bennett Design: Graham Curd Picture Research: Natasha Jones, Sandra Assersohn Printed in Singapore 1098 7654321 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .......................8 A ......................................................... 14 Ader AEG Aerfer Aeritalia Aermacchi Aero Aeronca Aerospatiale Agusta Agusta-Bell Aichi AIDC Air Department Airbus Airco Airspeed Albatros Amiot ANF Ansaldo Antoinette Antonov A magnificent air-to-air shot of the X-35 advanced tactical fighter during flight refuelling trials with a KC-135 Arado tanker aircraft. Two versions of the X-35 were proposed, one V/STOL and one conventional. Armstrong Whitworth Atlas Bratukhin Curtiss Felixstowe Auster Breda Curtiss-Wright FFA Avia Breguet FFVS Avian Brewster Fiat Aviat Bristol D ........................................................ 155 Fieseler Aviatik British Aerospace Flettner Avions Fairey British Army Dassault FMA Avions de Transport Regional Britten-Norman De Havilland Focke-Angelis Avro Biicker Dewoitine Focke-Wulf Burnelli DFS Fokker DoblhofflWHF Folland B ...........................................................58 Dornier Ford C .......................................................124 Douglas Fouga BAC Druine Fournier Bachem CAB Friedrichshafen Barling Canadair Fuji Beagle CANT E ........................... .......... .................... 190 Beardmore Caproni Beech Caproni-Campini EH Industries G ............................................ ......... ..229 Bell CASA Ellehammer Bellanca Caudron Embraer Galaxy Aerospace Bell-Boeing Cayley Enstrom General Dynamics Bensen CEA Entwicklungsring-Sud Gloster Berezniak-Isayev Cessna Erco Gloster-Whittle Beriev Chance Vought Eurocopter Gotha Berliner Chilton Eurofighter Grigorovich Blackburn Chrislea Grob Bleriot Cierva Grumman Bloch Coanda F .........................................................196 Blohm und Voss Cody Boeing Commonwealth Fairchild H ........................................................246 Boeing-Stearman Comper Fairchild Republic Boeing-Vertol Consolidated Fairchild-Dornier HAL Bombardier Convair Fairchild-Hiller Halberstadt Boulton Paul Cornu Fairey Handley Page Brantly Couzinet Farman Hannover 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 Kyushu Mignet Petlyakov Hansa-Brandenburg Mikoyan-Gurevich Pfalz Hawker MIL Piaggio Hawker-Siddeley L................. .......................................295 Miles Piasecki Heinkel Mitsubishi Piel Henschel Lake Mooney Pilatus Henson Langley Morane-Saulnier PiIcher HiIler Latecoere Mortimer and Vaughan Piper Hispano Lavochkin Myasishchev Polikarpov Horten Learjet Potez Huff-Daland Leduc PZL Hughes LET N....... ....... ................................... .... ...367 Hunting Levasseur Lilienthal Nakajima R..... ...... ........................................... ..411 Liore et Olivier NAMC I ........................................................... .273 Lippisch Nanchang Raytheon LIoyd Naval Aircraft Factory Reggiane IAI Lockheed Nieuport Republic IAR Lockheed Martin Nieuport-Delage RFB Ikarus Loire-Nieuport Noorduyn Robin Ilyushin Luscombe Nord Robinson Interstate LV G North American RockwelI LWS Northrop Roe N orthrop-Grumman Rohrbach J.. .................................. ....................... 280 Northrop-McDonnelI Douglas RoJand M ......................................... .............323 Royal Aircraft Factory Junkers Rutan Macchi 0 .............................................. .......... 388 Ryan Makhonine K......... ............................................... 286 Martin Oemichen Martin-Baker s ................... ......................................429 Kaman Martinsyde Kamov Maule P ......................................................... 389 Saab Kawanishi Max Holste Santos-Dumont Kawasaki MBB Panavia Saro Keystone McDonnelI Pemberton -Billing Saro-Cierva Klemm McDonnelI Douglas Percival Savoia-Marchetti Koolhoven Messerschmitt Pescara Scottish Aviation CONTENTS SEPECAT Seversky Shin Meiwa Short Short-Bristow Siebel Siemens-Schuckert Sikorsky SIPA Skoda-Kauba Slingsby SNCA SNECMA Socata SOKO Sopwith SPAD Spartan The sole Curtiss NC-4, today preserved in the US Naval Air Museum. Glenn Curtiss devoted a great deal of Stampe et Vertongen energy to the production of seaplanes, but production was curtailed with the end of World War I. Stinson Stringfellow Tipsy Sud-Aviation Transall Sud-Est TsAGI W................................. .................... 512 Z. ........................................................ 525 Sud-Ouest Tupolev Sukhoi Wallis Zeppelin Staaken Superrnarine Westland Zlin Svenska Wright V ........................................................ 501 Wright-Bellanca T ......................................................... 488 VEB Vickers y .................................................... .519 GLOSSARY.... ............................. 526 Tachikawa VL Tchetverikov Vought Yakovlev INDEX. .............................................538 Temco Vought-Sikorsky Yerrnolayev Thomas-Morse Vultee Yokosuka PICTURE CREDITS .... ....... 544 Known as 'Whistling Death' to the Japanese, the Vought F4U Corsair also performed with distinction in the Korean War. 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 1-85605-887-5 9 781856 058872 > .