The Hevle Classic is two-seat development of the Bowers or EAA Fly Baby which was designed as a simple, easy to fly, low-coast light aircraft for the amateur builder.
The Delta Bird is one of a series of ultralight aircraft designed by Robert Hovey in 1982. It is a single-seat single-engine biplane with conventional three-axis control.
In New Zealand Volker Heydecke built an all-composite 66-percent scale replica of a Polikarpov I-16 Type 24 fighter and it was fitted with a 112-kw (150-hp) Rotec R3600 radial engine with a 3:2 gearing.
The Delta Hawk is a light single-seat sporting biplane which was available in the 1980’s in kit form in the United States, being designed by Mr R W Hovey of California.
The Hurricane was designed by Sydney Camm to Air Ministry specification F36/34, the prototype (K5083) built at Kingston making its first flight on 6 November 1935, the first production aircraft flying on 12 October 1937, and the first unit to receive the aircraft being No 111 squadron at Northolt.
In 1950 the Australian Government expressed interest in obtaining a new variant of the Hawker P.1052 single seat fighter then under test at the Hawker facility at Kingston.
The Tempest was a development of the Typhoon designed by a team lead by Sydney Camm, being a logical development of the earlier aircraft with the Napier Sabre IV engine
In 1916 the Societe Anonyme de Appareils d’Aviation Hanriot built a fighter for operations in World War I, this aircraft, the HD-1, being designed by Emile Dupont and it was the company’s first fighter design.
The lack of potent fighter aircraft was evident in the United Kingdom in 1930 when, during exercises, the Hawker Hart bombers of the RAF were too fast for the then RAF fighter aircraft, the Armstrong Whitworth Siskin, to intercept.
The Hs 126 was designed by Henschel Flugwerke AG at Schonefeld as an Army co-operation aircraft and was eventually used in the multi-role tactical aircraft role.
The Hs 129 was one of a number of designs put forward to the German State Ministry of Aviation in 1937 for a dedicated close air support aircraft, becoming known as the “winged can-opener.
After many years of research into vertical take-off and landing (VTOL), on 21 October 1960 Hawker Siddeley flew, tethered, the P.1127 (XP831), a single-seat fighter designed around the Bristol Siddeley Pegasus engine which had four rotating exhaust nozzles to provide vertical and horizontal flight.
In 1934 the British Air Ministry foresaw the problems that may later occur in Europe and decided upon a major expansion programme for its military services, one of the fruits of this plan being the Hawker Hind light bomber, designed as an interim replacement for the Hawker Hart, which had
Following the cessation of hostilities in World War II, Hawker initiated design of a private project single-seat fighter (known as the P-1067) powered by a 6,500 lbst Rolls Royce AJ65 axial flow turbojet fitted with two 30 mm Aden cannon.
In 1954 Hawker chose to develop a two-seat variant of the Hunter, the prototype (XJ615) flying for the first time on 8 June 1955, a production order being placed for 55 aircraft with the designation Hunter T.7.
One of the most important bombers of World War II, a total of 6,179 Handley Page Halifax’s had been built by time the production ended, having been built by Handley Page (1,592), English Electric (2,145), London Aircraft Production Group – LAPG (710); Rootes Securities (1,071) and Fairey Aviation (662).
The prototype of the HP.80 Victor (WB771) made its first flight on 24 December 1952 but the programme suffered a setback when, on 14 July 1954, during a low-level run at Cranfield the ‘structural rigidity of the tail was slightly reduced by a minor fatigue failure’ causing the tailplane to
Prior to World War I Hannoversche Waggonfabric AG was known for building railway rolling stock for the various railway in Europe, and in 1915 it was directed by the German Government to commence production of aeroplanes for the armed services.
The Halberstadter Flugzeugwerke, formerly the German office of the Bristol & Colonial Aeroplane Company, produced a series of fighter aircraft for the German Airforce prior to and during World War I.
Whilst working in France with Avions Pierre Robin, Mr M Heintz, a professional aeronautical engineer, participated in the design of several light aircraft.
Known for a short time as the ‘Jet Dragon’, the DH-125 later became known as the HS-125 when the merger of several British aircraft companies occurred.
Intended as a replacement for the Douglas DC-3, and a direct competitor to the Fokker Friendship for civil and military use, the HS-748 was designed by A V Roe and Co (later part of the Hawker Siddeley Group) as a 36-seat commercial airliner.
William Ewart Hart was born on 20 April 1885 at Parramatta, NSW. He was a dentist who had an interest in flight and who contributed much to early aviation in Australia.
The Alpha is one of series of light aircraft produced by HB-Flugtechnik in Austria, the others designs including the Amigo, Cubby, the Dandy, and a two-seat mid-wing high-performance aircraft known as the Tornado which has a pusher engine driving a five-blade propeller and is fitted with a retractable undercarriage.
Developed by Martin Hollmann of Orlando, Florida, a senior design engineer in the aerospace industry, the HA-2M Sportster [also known as the Hollmann Sportster] was claimed to be the first two-seat gyroplane designed for the homebuilder who has access to a minimum of power tools.
The de Havilland DH-125 series was intended as a jet-engined replacement for the de Havilland DH-104 Dove executive aircraft, the project being announced in February 1961.