Today, exactly one hundred years have passed since the first plane was shot down from the sky. This happened when the crew of the French airplane Voisin III returned from the bombing mission to the enemy territory. Due to the great coincidence of events, French General Franchet D’Espere witnessed the whole event, and it was … Read more
Perhaps anyone who has ever been on an airplane day or just watching airplanes in the sky has noticed a sequence of letters, a graphic symbol (linker), and figures located visibly on the hull and wing of the plane. It is a registration (sometimes also a cognitive) mark of the airplane, which determines the nationality, … Read more
In 1939, there were two aircraft type marking systems in the United States Armed Forces, Army and Navy. Thanks to this, it happened that the same aircraft received both designations. In addition, aircraft manufacturers also used their own internal type designation systems. Army Air Forces The Material Division, renamed the Air Material Command from 1942, … Read more
The North Atlantic Alliance has used a precisely defined code list for the cataloging and easier identification of weapon systems of the former Soviet Union, Eastern Bloc countries and other countries, which was introduced in 1954 by the ASCC in order to unify aeronautical terminology. Aircraft technology has been assigned passwords according to a simple … Read more