All Videos Tagged aircraft (Tarrantry) - Tarrantry

Wings Over The World: Wings of Italy (Part 2)

2012-12-13T20:45:18.715Z

Pfalz D.XII demo flight in "Rise Of Flight"

2012-07-14T20:43:24.665Z

Pfalz D.XII short flight with full ammo load and 20% fuel load (about 17 liters).

Latécoère 300

2012-05-28T07:06:23.856Z

The Latécoère 300 series of aircraft were a group of civil and military flying boats. They were manufactured by French aircraft manufacturer Latécoère in the 1930s. A single Latécoère 300 was built; it was flown for the first time in 1931 and sank the same year. It was rebuilt and flown again in 1932, being named Croix du Sud ("Southern Cross"). The 300 was a monoplane of parasol wing construction. It was powered by four engines, each of which produced 650 hp, arranged in two push-pull pairs. The 300 set an international aviation record for seaplanes on 31 December 1933, by flying 3,697 kilometers (2,297 mi) non-stop between Berre Lake near Marseille and Saint-Louis, Senegal. The aircraft then entered service for Air France, transporting mail across the Atlantic Ocean from Dakar, Senegal to Natal, Brazil. It completed 23 missions before being lost at sea on December 7, 1936. The pilot was the famous French aviator Jean Mermoz.

Wings Over The World: Wings of Italy (Part 3)

2012-05-28T07:00:30.436Z

In this aviation documentary from the 1980s the history of Italian involvment in the development of the airplane. It focuses on the Caproni family and their company which was responsible for many seaplane and bomber aircraft in the period between the early 1900s through Mussolini's Regia Aeronautica to the last decades of the 20th Century. This final segment covers Caproni aircraft in research and during the 1935 Ethiopian Invasion, and the continued development and use of the Regia Aeronautica during the Spanish Civil War then WW2. There is also film of the Caproni-Camprini jet early post-war Italian military aircraft, the Fiat G91 and the Macchi 326/339

Heinkel He 178 and He 282 - the first jets

2012-05-28T06:57:55.635Z

The Heinkel He 178 was the world's first aircraft to fly under turbojet power, and the first practical jet plane, the pioneering example of this type of aircraft. It was a private venture by the German Heinkel company in accordance with director Ernst Heinkel's emphasis on developing technology for high-speed flight and first flew on 27 August 1939 piloted by Erich Warsitz. This had been preceded by a short hop three days earlier.