Late/Post WWI Aircraft that got lost between wars. (1918-1935)

[6./ZG26_Klaus_Mann]

Well, the interwar years were a wonderful time for Aviation and some of my favourite designs were birthed in this period. 

Just share Aircraft we'll never see in any flightsim, because they never had a war to fight in. 

 

My favourites come from the Czechs. 

One is the Avia BH-3, 1921 Monoplane fighter with BMW IIIa engine, well known to those Rise of Flight guys amongst us. 

 

 

 

The other is the Avia B-35, a czech attempt at a Bf109/Spitfire style monoplane fighter.

 

 

[6./ZG26_5tuka]

The Avia B-35s were partly used by the Luftwaffe during the early war days, same accounts for the Avia B-535 (ironicly both were later reused by the allied Czech airforce to fight germans back).

 

Some more:

 

Ju-89

 

Very capeable bomber for it's day. Desing was droped together with the german prewar heavy bomber program in 1937

 

He-70

Advanced passenger aircraft for it's day. Saw military service as a light bomber and transport aircraft in the spanish civil war, only used for staff ferrying and reconnisence during early WW2.

 

He-100

 

 

Heinkels final attempt to get a contract for building germany's main fighter aircraft. Sucessfully broke the speed record set by Messerschmitt in 1939. Desing was again denied and used for propaganda and export instead (including Russia and Japan, former used it for evaluation helping their planed modernisation of the airforce whiel Japan used the desing to develop their Ki-61 fighter aircraft).

 

He-112 B

 

Improved version of the He-112 A, which failed to win the german 'main fighter' contract in 1935 against Messerschmitt's Bf-109. RLM denied the desing, already build machines were used briefly in the spanish civil war and as Heinkels personal factory defense force in the war years. Many examples were exported to other countrys including Japan, Spain, Romania and Hungary, some of which deployed them in combat as ground attack aircraft. As the machines were totally obsolete by 1941 onwards, they were handed over to training units where one after another was lost in accidents or scrapped.

Edited March 23, 2016 by Stab/JG26_5tuka

[216th_Lucas_From_Hell]

The B-35 looks like the combination of a Yak-1, Hurricane and Bf-109. The 1918-1935 timeframe is an interesting one because a lot of the last designs that flew back then actually made it through the first years of WW2 in upgraded versions like the I-15 (and even some I-5s), I-16, U-2, TB-3 and the Fiat CR.32. But of course, everybody knows those designs. Here's one of the crazier ones, one of those that experimented with concepts which looking back were sheer lunacy.

 

1931, Grigorovich I-Z. 73 were built. The concept was simple: since aircraft made of metal and with self-sealing fuel tanks were coming into play, the Soviet Air Force needed something to shoot them down with. The solution? Adapting two 76.2mm recoilless rifles for aviation use, of course! Hanging under the wings, each could only fire one bullet. To help the pilot aim was a single PV-1 machine gun (the predecessor of the ShKAS).

 

 

Here is another gem, from 1927: the Tupolev I-4 (ANT-5), the very first aircraft designed by Pavel Sukhoi, and the first Soviet all-metal fighter aircraft.

 

 

In comparison, here is his last design:

 

[Falco_Peregrinus]

 

The Savoia Marchetti S.55.... gotta just love hydros