John Harley Gill of Dunedin, NZ, designed and built an aircraft in about 1909, work commencing at about that time in the foundry of Schlaadt Bros in Cumberland Street.
This light aircraft was designed and built by Bryan Gabriel at Holbrook, NSW. It is an approximately 70-percent scale model of a North American P-51D Mustang built of all metal construction and fitted with a converted Mercury six-cylinder Vee outboard engine.
The F-14 Tomcat for many years was one of the most potent interceptor / fighters in the armoury of the US Navy and saw combat on a number of occasions operating from aircraft carriers of the US Fleet.
Work on an 80% scale all alloy scale replica of the Grumman F-8 Bearcat was commenced in Western Australia in about 2010, the aircraft to be fitted with a new 269-kw (360-hp) Vedeneyev M-14P radial engine driving a four-blade MT propeller.
This aircraft was registered on 5 March 2013 as VH-NZG³ (c/n 2009-1). It was built by Robert Grigson of Strathfieldsaye, Vic. and is fitted with an Aero Sport Power IO-375-M1B engine driving a Whirlwind Aviation 200RV propeller.
J Thomas Grant of Dunedin, NZ designed and built and 75% scale replica of a World War I Albatros D.V fighter, build time being in the order of three and a half years.
This was an ultralight aircraft built by a number of members of the Gold Coast Ultralight Club at Tallabudgera. At least one example was registered with the RAA on 18 December 1989 as 10-1177 and this aircraft was fitted with a Zenoah G-50 engine.
This was an ultralight aircraft known as the Jenner Gippslander Mk 1 and was registered with the RAA on 28 August 1995 and was withdrawn from use on 25 May 2008.
The prototype of the Gloster Meteor fighter was flown for the first time on 5 March 1943. It was the first jet fighter to enter service with the Allies, and thus the type was in service during the closing stages of the conflict against Germany.
The Grumman OV-1 Mohawk was developed for the US Army for the observation role, according exceptional visibility to the two man crew and able to carry a variety of cameras, radar and infra-red detection systems for photo-reconnaissance and electronic surveillance.
In 1948 Armstrong Whitworth re-designed the Gloster Meteor as a two-seat night fighter and in this regard it fitted the Rolls Royce Derwent 8 in the NF-11 and the Derwent 9 in the NF-12 and NF-14.
On 4 December 1952 Grumman Aircraft flew the prototype of what was, for many years, one of the most important anti-submarine aircraft in the western inventory.
When the Royal Air force commenced retirement of the Meteor F Mk 4 fighter it looked at converting a number to target drones to help develop ground and air-launched guided missiles and it was decided to convert a number to be used as expendable targets that could be tested to
The G.V was one of a series of long-range heavy bombers built by Gothaer Waggonfabrick A G Gotha in Germany which produced the type in some numbers during World War I, the series also being licence built by Luft Verkehrs GmbH (LVG) and Siemens Schuckert Werke GmbH.
The Intruder is a twin-engine, two-seat, all-weather strike aircraft tht was built in some numbers for operations from US Navy aircraft carriers and entered service in 1963.
In 1944 Grumman commenced design of a successor to the successful Goose amphibian and, known as the G-64 Albatross, the first of two prototypes flew on 24 October 1947.
In April 1940 the US Bureau of Aeronautics placed a contract with Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation for the construction of two prototypes of a three-seat carrier-borne torpedo bomber known as the XTBF-1.
Leroy Grumman was born on 4 January, 1885 in New York and learnt to fly in 1918, becoming a test pilot and engineer at the US Naval Aircraft Factory in 1920.
One of the most successful fighter aircraft of World War II, the Hellcat was a development of the Wildcat fitted with a Double Wasp engine providing 1,492 kw (2,000-hp), the prototype, the XF6F-1, flying at Bethpage on 26 June 1942, the second prototype, the XF6F-3 flying six weeks later on
The Grebe was designed by H P (Harry) Folland for the Gloster Aircraft Company, this company originating in 1917 as the Gloucestershire Aircraft Company which, at a plant near Cheltenham, established itself by building wooden aeroplanes for the RFC, and later the RAF.
The definitive prototype of the Wildcat, known by the manufacturer as the G-36, flew for the first time on 2 September 1937 under the designation XF4F-2.
In 1940 the design staff at Gloster Aircraft commenced design of an operational jet fighter to meet specification F.9/40, the aircraft built being the only Allied jet aircraft to see operational service during World War II. On 7 February 1941 the British Ministry of Aircraft Production placed an order for
The Mirage III emanated from Dassault’s Mirage I, which was powered by two 1,640 lbst Armstrong Siddeley Viper turbojets with provision for a rocket motor in the rear fuselage.
The F-16 series was designed as a small, lightweight agile fighter for the US armed services and is one of the most prolific aircraft of its type in the world.
On 21 December 1964 the first F-111 flew at Carswell Air Force Base, Texas. It was the product of 25 million man-hours of planning, design, and construction, and 2,100 hours of wind-tunnel testing.
The Gladiator was the last single-engine biplane fighter built for the RAF and, although obsolescent by the commencement of World War II, it enjoyed some success. Designed by a team lead by H P Folland, it was an extensively refined development of the Gauntlet.
In 2008 Gulfstream announced it was going to introduce a new long-range business aircraft known as the 650 to fill a niche in the corporate market between the company’s own G550 and the Bombardier Global XRS, and the Boeing Business Jet and Airbus Corporate Jetliner.
In the 1950s the US Navy was seeking a cheap, simple single-seat helicopter for the reconnaissance and assault role, and the Gyrodyne Company of America in St James on Long Island, New York, produced a series of helicopters known as the XRON Rotorcycle between 1954 and 1956.
The G-550 is one of a series of business and executive jets produced by General Dynamics Gulfstream Aerospace at its facility in Savannah, Georgia marketed under the name V-SP and by early 2016 450 aircraft in the G-550 series had been delivered to a variety of operators for a variety
The Cougar was an intermediate design between the high-performance, singleengine, light aircraft and the then current light twins. Designed and developed by the Grumman American Company, production was carried out by Gulfstream America, the prototype was flown for the first time on 20 December 1974, and the first production aircraft
In 1956 Grumman set out to produce a long-range transport capable of operating to airline standards to replace the large number of Douglas DC-3s and similar types serving as business and executive aircraft in the USA.
The Egrett (a name taken from the three companies which developed the proof-of-concept aircraft, ie E-Systems, Grob and Garrett) is one of a series of high-altitude surveillance and research aircraft planned by E-Systems and built by Grob Aerospace, work commencing in 1986, prototype construction taking place at Mindelheim/Mattsies in West
In May 1965 Grumman Aerospace launched a successor to the Gulfstream I powered by Rolls Royce Spey turbofans, this becoming known as the Gulfstream II.