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Hurricanes with Vickers Class ‘S’ 40mm gun

Air Warfare Aircraft British 6 Min Read

Hurricane IId, HW719, seen while serving with the Specialised Low Attack Instructors School, a training unit for ground-attack pilots, at RAF Milfield, in early 1943. It is armed with a pair of Vickers ‘S’ 40mm cannon under its wings and despite the streamlined fairings, this weapons fit had a noticeable drag-inducing effect on the aircraft’s performance. Close-up detail of a…

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B-36 “Peacemaker”

Jack Fellows Strategic bombing stood at the core of the argument for a separate U. S. Air Force. The use of airplanes to deliver bombs to targets far beyond the battlefield represented an independent, offensive mission that would justify the creation of an air arm equal in status to the…

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15th Bomb Squadron (Light)

Nixon Galloway Captain Charles Kegelman USAAF and an American crew piloted one of the twelve Bostons led by Squadron Leader J. S. Kennedy DFC that took part in a Circus (C-195) against the Hazebrouck marshalling yards on 29 June, the first time since 1918 that Americans had operated from England.…

Aircraft Germany 10 Min Read

Otto-Werke GmbH

AGO C.1 by Ivan Berryman. As Prussia started to develop its own aircraft manufacturing empire, so Bavaria looked to achieve the same. The rivalry and friction between the two states in the formative years hampered any form of co-operation within the German empire. The Bavarian Army Inspectorate of Engineering embarked…

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Oesterreichische Flugzeugfabrik AG (Oeffag)

WWI Albatros D. III as Flown by Josef Kiss Oeffag C.II Oeffag/Mickl Type H At the end of 1913, with the winds of war starting to blow through Europe, the Daimler Motoren AG Company, who were a subsidiary of Skodawerke AG, applied to the council in Wiener-Neustadt to build an…

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English Electric Lightning

In 1960, Fighter Command received an interceptor, the performance of which was beyond anything then in service. With a speed of over Mach 2, more than twice the speed of the Hunter, the technologically advanced Lightning was the RAF’s first truly supersonic aircraft. Its initial climb rate of 50,000ft per…

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The RAF on D-Day and beyond…

In January 1944 Tedder and Coningham were recalled to Britain to join Eisenhower for the countdown to D-Day. They brought with them enormous experience, the glow of victory and a shared outlook. The nature of the air war fought through North Africa, Sicily and Italy had to some extent been…

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