Plane Tales

The final few letters of a look at aviation through the alphabet.   A model of the original Flettner 282 Helicopter   Flettner helicopters have the unfortunate potential to decapitate the unwary!   A cutaway of the Spitfire with it's remarkable Rolls Royce Merlin V12 engine.   The Allison V-1710 V12 engine   The Daimler-Benz DB600 V12.   The X Planes   The Napkin ring   Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Raobe001, Ball wallpaper, the National Archives UK, the Smithsonian archive, the USAF, NASA,