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Derived from the Miles Aircraft Marathon project, acquired with the Company in 1947, Handley Page Herald was the UK feeder reply to Douglas DC-3. Born in mid-1940s and designed to… Read more: Handley Page Herald – A “lost Marathon”

Initially conceived by Hunting Aircraft, the BAC1-11 became one of the most popular short-range commercial jet airliners. BAe Systems Heritage The BAC One-Eleven was one of the most successful medium-range… Read more: BAC One-Eleven, the British short-liner

Had the Britannia appeared in 1950, when it was faster than every American aircraft, it would have put the British at the forefront of commercial aviation sales. Now, competing with… Read more: Bristol Type 175 “Britannia” – The British Revival

Russia license built the Douglas DC-3, since 1936 as Lisunov Li-2; however, during WW II the Soviet’s race for independence from the Western countries prompted Ilyushin to design an all-Soviet-built… Read more: Ilyushin IL-12 – The run for the Soviet’s workhorse

In 1929 Tupolev was tasked with the construction of a long-range airliners, equipped with 32 seats for the Moscow – Vladivostok route. So, basically, Tupolev put the ANT-9 “on steroids” and came with a five radial-engines, 40.4 meters wingspan and 36 seat configuration giant.

A clean and elegant luxury tourer, the last biplane to be designed and built by De Havilland. BAe Systems Heritage The deHavilland DH.90 Dragonfly was twin-engine luxury touring aircraft built at Hatfield… Read more: The deHavilland DH.90 Dragonfly, the “leisure” turned “commercial”