Dornier Do-28 amphibian for the MLD
After the end of the Second World War the Dutch Marineluchtvaartdienst (MLD) had on its inventory the Consolidated Vultee PBY-5...
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Vickers Supermarine Type 381 Seagull ASR-1
Supermarine Aviation Works Ltd. at Southampton, England was always a company well known for its flying boat and floatplane designs....
English Electric Canberra
A legend is born... The Canberra can be classed as one of the greatest aircraft of all times, it was...
SAAB 35 Draken
To defend its neutrality during the second world war, Sweden faced the problem that they could not easily order fighters...
Grumman Hellcat history
After early US Navy experience in the Pacific in the early months of WWII, and after consultation with Allied air...
Bordwaffen MG 15 and MG 81
The MG 15 was a 7.92 mm (0.31 in) machine gun designed specifically as a hand manipulated defensive gun for...
Folland Gnat- Petter’s lightweight fighter
W.E.W Petter was a brilliant aircraft designer, responsible for some very well-known British aircraft types. When working at Westland he...
Vickers Type 161 COW-gun fighter
The Coventry Ordnance Works (C.O.W.) designed and built in 1915 a small 37 mm cannon capable of firing a 1...
Saunders Roe SR.53 and 177
In the mid-fifties the British aircraft industry produced a number of operational jet fighters with trans-sonic capabilities like the Hawker...
