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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 Arado Armstrong Whitworth Atlas Auster Avia Avian Aviat Aviatik Avions Fairey Avions de Transport Regional Avro

B ....................... . . . . ............. .................. .58

BAC 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 ....................................................... 124

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 ........................................................ 155

Dassault De Havilland Dewoitine DFS DoblhofflWHF Dornier Douglas Druine

E ......................................................... 190

EH Industries Ellehammer Embraer Enstrom Entwicklungsring-Sud Erco Eurocopter Eurofighter

F ................................................. . . . . . . . . 196

Fairchild Fairchild Republic Fairchild-Dornier Fairchild-Hiller Fairey Farman

Felixstowe FFA FFV S Fiat Fieseler Flettner FMA Focke-Angelis Focke-Wulf Fokker Folland Ford Fouga Fournier Friedrichshafen Fuji

G ............................... . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . ... . 229

Galaxy Aerospace General Dynamics Gloster Gloster-Whittle Gotha Grigorovich Grob Grumman

H ........................................................ 246

HAL Halberstadt Handley Page 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 Hansa-Brandenburg Hawker Hawker-Siddeley Heinkel Henschel Henson HiIler Hispano Horten Huff-Daland Hughes Hunting

I ........................................................... .273

IAI IAR Ikarus Ilyushin Interstate

J ............ . . . ..................... ....................... 280

Junkers

K ........................................................ 286

Kaman Kamov Kawanishi Kawasaki Keystone Klemm Koolhoven

Kyushu

L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . .295

Lake Langley Latecoere Lavochkin Learjet Leduc LET Levasseur Lilienthal Liore et Olivier Lippisch LIoyd Lockheed Lockheed Martin Loire-Nieuport Luscombe LV G LWS

M . . . . . . . . . ................. . . . . . .. . . . . . ............. .. .323

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 . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . .. . . .. . . . 367

Nakajima NAMC Nanchang Naval Aircraft Factory Nieuport Nieuport-Delage Noorduyn Nord North American Northrop N orthrop-Grumman Northrop-McDonnelI Douglas

0 ........................................................ 388

Oemichen

P ......................................................... 389

Panavia Pemberton -Billing Percival Pescara

Petlyakov Pfalz Piaggio Piasecki Piel Pi latus PiIcher Piper Polikarpov Potez PZL

R ................... . . . . . .............................. ..411

Raytheon Reggiane Republic RFB Robin Robinson RockwelI Roe Rohrbach RoJand Royal Aircraft Factory Rutan Ryan

s . . . . .................................................... . 429

Saab Santos-Dumont Saro Saro-Cierva Savoia-Marchetti Scottish Aviation

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 ......................................................... 488

Tachikawa Tchetverikov Temco Thomas-Morse

CONTENTS

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 ........................................................ 501

V EB Vickers VL Vought Vought -Sikorsky Vultee

W ..................................................... 512 Z ......................................................... 525

Wallis Westland Wright Wright-Bellanca

y .................................................... .519

Yakovlev Yerrnolayev Yokosuka

Zeppelin Staaken Zlin

GLOSSARY ................................. 526

INDEX. ............................................. 538

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

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