twin

When the Boeing 247 aircraft took to the skies, it was far superior to any airliners that were in service. It was capable of flying from San Francisco to New York seven and a half hours quicker than competitors in addition to offering vastly better passenger comfort. The Boeing 247...

Following, the success of the Mosquito, De Havilland set off an providing the RAF with long-range, high performance fighter. From this the twin-engine De Havilland Hornet and Sea Hornet was born, an aircraft that test pilot Eric Brown believed could “even with one propellor feathered...loop...

Here's me in jumping back into my old WW2 "Bamboo Fleet" builds. This time, the 1/72 (Sword) Staggerwing and (Kitech) Twin Beech/C-45 Expeditor. These aircraft were part of the civilian fleet that were commandeered by the USAAC to serve as transport for the beleaguered allied forces in the...

We have had some interesting discussions about the various twins and I thought I'd start a twin thread to get some discussions going. So here's my candidate for a sleeper, the Mitsibushi Ki-83. In post-war testing in the USA, we got it up to 473 mph at 23,000 feet on US 150-grade fuel. Looks...

in another forum someone posted a link of a swedish J22. it looks sharp and had a swed version of a P&W twin wasp....but how would it have fared had it been seriously pressed into service ( provided sufficient numbers were produced)?? View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck2A_6UCFlc

Was there any particular durability difference between the Pratt and Whitney twin wasp 1830 and the wright cyclone 1820. Seems the 1830 would be much more expensive to manufacture considering the same horsepower output?