Fiat-Ansaldo Autoblinda The successful family of Italian armoured cars, both in WWII and post war use. https://i.imgur.com/nRmaKxi.png Designed initially in 1939 to replace the obsolete WWI-vintage Lancia armoured cars in both military and colonial police service, the type was entered into producti...
Italian Advance From Albania While the Yugoslav’s had surrounded Albania with their strongest troops, the expectation was that the Italian advance would be focussed on the Dalmatian coast with a push up towards Šibenik. Instead the Italians had their ground attack from Albania focused to the north ...
Your registration convention is unwieldy and impractical in a "real world". Remember that the aircraft registration system is actually an outward reflection of the aircraft's radio station callsign (which is why the ITU codes are applicable). The format you've described for airliners is way outside ...
As you've got so much to concentrate on with Cessna's production models, here are a couple of the failed prototypes that are mostly unknown. Cessna 182M cantilever wing prototype https://i.imgur.com/tG6cOGf.png With the 172 evolved into the 177, and the 210 modified to adopt an unstrutted cantilever...
Grote T-42 While not as outlandish as the landship, Grote's super-heavy T-42 was still a massive 112 tonnes. https://i.imgur.com/kO9yNuY.png Although progressing to the point of being granted a prototype designation, Grote's more modest T-42 still packed 3 independent turrets and required 2x 1000 h...
Grote TG-V landship While we all know of Hitler's fantasy super-mega-tanks, most don't realise they were not a purely Nazi conceipt but were a continuation of Soviet designs of the 1930's. https://i.imgur.com/aXmiTLW.png In 1930 Eduard Grote and his team from Rheinmetall were invited to the USSR, w...
Heinkel He 116 in Japanese service Japan purchased 2 prototype He 116's in 1938, the only foreign customer for the aircraft. https://i.imgur.com/8YZhm97.png With it's excellent range capability, Japan expressed an early interest in the He 116 to operate in the east rather than the west. Two additio...
Heinkel He 116 Although looking like a mini-He 111, the He 116 was instead a multi-engined version of the He 70 "Blitz". https://i.imgur.com/e1WeJXM.png Unfortunately the published history of the He 116 is mostly inaccurate, relying on old research that has since been superseded. This is what is cu...
Payen unbuilt military designs Payen's " Avion-Flèche " concept had potential beyond racers and single-seat fighters, and Payen tried several times to interest the French military in heavier models. https://i.imgur.com/JeEH16v.png The Payen Pa 310CB was designed for the 1937 C.2 (2 seat fighter) pr...
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