Aeronumerology Blog
The Flight that Really Happened – Berlin to New York 1938.
Introduction When discussing claims of Luftwaffe flights to Japan, the United States, or South America during the Second World War, many readers immediately assume such journeys were impossible. In fact, German aviation had already demonstrated the ability to conduct...
Luftwaffe Myths and Legends – The Long-Distance Flights That Never Were?
Introduction Few military air forces have generated as many enduring myths as the German Luftwaffe of the Second World War. More than eighty years after the war ended, stories continue to circulate about secret German aircraft crossing the Arctic Ocean, reaching Japan...
Back to the vanishing numbers.
So here we go again on the missing serial numbers on AMC aircraft. The above photo of an AMC C-295 © Ian Woodcock was taken on the 14th May at Prestwick, checking a number of sites shows that the serial was a maybe its....... What few of the sites show is that there...
Just your average Copilot.
So what better place to start than with Microsoft Copilot, an aviation themed name that fits with the blog theme and you probably have sight of it every time you access your computer. One of the benefits of Copilot is that it's right infront of your face if you use...
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Lucky White Heather!
Bad Luck or what? Lucky White Heather or the lack of it is the topic here, ever had that why me feeling when you take your eye off the ball. Well I can report that I've just had one of those moments, a few minutes ago I went outside for a breath of fresh air as they...
How good does hat taste?
So, how good does hat actually taste. And why do I ask the question, well a few days after posing the previous article on the Radia Windrunner I read that the Military was interested in the project. That there are likely to be low visibility grey ones in service at...
After a short hiatus!
A quick update! Well, back after a short hiatus. It was a bit longer than expected, for a number of reasons - but hopefully I'll be able to devote more time to the site now. There are a number of teething troubles that have to be sorted out, not least the site email....
The Radia Windrunner.
The Radia Windrunner, a proposal for an aircraft to transport wind turbine blades up tp 105m in length. Is it ever likely to fly, well I think that that is still a maybe. But I have to say that Radia does seem to be making progress, but it isn't due to fly until 2030...