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I hope I don't upset this excellent thread by playing the "Who can tell me what this one is?" game.
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Brewster Buffalo? Winner! Brewster F2A. Shown with Finnish Air Force Markings.
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I might have had an airfix one of those as a kid with exactly those markings
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Bell P-39?https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P-39N.jpg#/media/File:P-39N.jpg
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The Buffalo was a dog in it's original form. It was designed to operate from US Navy carriers and was overweight and underpowered. The British used them in the Far East, as Dutch bound planes were...
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Winner of Britain's first Schneider Trophy at Monaco on 20 April 1914. Started as a two-seat landplane, but Tom Sopwith thought it good enough to convert to a floatplane, swapping the 80hp Gnome for a...
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Not sure if this one's already been posted, but you can never have enough pics of possibly the most beautiful biplanes ever built:Albatross DVa.
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With that corrugated skin, it couldn't really be anything else but a Junkers, an F13. Well ahead of its time in 1919, had an enclosed passenger cabin, with seatbelts, first in an aircraft. Caproni Ca....
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Curtiss CR-3. Took first two places at the Schneider Trophy at 177.5mph, in the Solent at Cowes in 1923.Ryan NYP. Better known as Lindberg's Spirit Of St.Louis
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That F13 photo makes me want to leap in and fly away!
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Lockheed Vega. Flown by Amelia Earheart solo across the Atlantic and Pacific, and by Wiley Post on the first solo circumnavigation of the world in Winnie MaeCaptainFlashheart - Member That F13 photo...
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Macchi MC.72. Fastest piston-engined seaplane ever built, one crashed killing its pilot, another blew up in mid-air, took a British fuel expert to sort out the supercharged Fiat AS.6 engine, which was...
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Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovic. More built than any other aircraft in history, at least 35,952 built as expendable, not designed to be taken apart or repaired. Fills a pilot with confidence, that.
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Knight Twisterhomebuilt bipe from around 1932Lincoln Sportanother homebuilt bipe, mid '20s I thinkRose Parakeetand a third homebuilt bipe, from the 30s
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I discovered in the holidays that I'm related to this man. First World War flying ace, killed in a flying accident aged 20. I gather he would have been my great uncle (more or less) if he hadn't died...
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date from after the Second World WarBearcat first flight .... 21 August 1944 Sea Fury first flight ..... 21 February 1945unfortunately...XF-12 Rainbow 4 February 1946
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While the Bearcat became operational during WWII it never saw combat and the Sea Fury didn't enter service until October '45, so I'd classify both as postwar aircraft. The same with the Blackburn...
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How about the Curtiss P40 Warhawk/Tomahawk/Kittyhawk?http://www.top-flite.com/airplanes/topa0705-main-lg.jpg Like the Hurricane overshadowed by latter designs but it was ready to go when the war kicked...
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I've loved this thread, fantastic pics of fantastic aircraft, thank you all! Though a few missing.. Some of the most important aircraft of the war:And the othe side
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