Assembling plastic scale kits and flying radio-controlled models are popular aircraft related hobbies. While toy collectors focus on great looking diecast replicas produced by Dinky and Aero Mini, another type...
In the 1920s, some companies, chiefly in North America, turned their attention to producing sturdy toy motor vehicles and aircraft using pressed steel, of a greater thickness than the stamped sheet metal - tin...
The Constellation was a very streamlined and well-engineered airliner that originated as a World War Two transport. Examples served in airline and military service into the early 1970s. A Constellation's chief...
The jet age arrived in the early 1950s with Britain's Comet. Its four Ghost jet engines were encased in fairings between the wings and fuselage. Unfortunately, this dramatic aircraft developed structural...