The Aviation Anorak is now called The Anoraks' Aerodrome and has now moved to Facebook

The forgotten/rare Douglas DC-5 was a 16-to-22-seat short range aircraft. It first flew on the 20th February 1939. Only 12 were built. http...

Roland Payen evolved a radical tandem-wing configuration which he dubbed the Fléchair, the short-span tapered foreplane carrying a combinati...

Frobisher The aircraft was remarkable for the ply-balsa-ply sandwich construction of its fuselage which was later made f...

Blohm & Voss BV 141  looked very odd  but it  never saw operational service. Three prototypes of the  BV 141  were made, before it went...

http://www.optica.co.uk/index2.html

Focke-Wulf F.19 Ente (Duck).  The one of only two made first flew on 2nd September 1927 but crashed on 29th September after a control rod sn...

The Focke-Wulf Fw 187 Falke (Falcon)... was developed as a high-performance fight in the late 1930s. Designed by Kurt tank was also behind ...

 LAU  HP.7  Herald  101  HK - 715  c/n151 Page updated 30/8/15 In the mid 1950s the Handley Page Aircraft Comp...

The Vickers Vanguard was introduced in 1959 as a development of the successful Viscount. It came into service just before the first of the ...

The Boulton Paul Defiant was a two-seat fighter with a four-gun power-operated turret. It had no forward firing armament, which meant it co...