Aircraft encyclopedia: Military

Aircraft models with their history, specifications and variants.

Airwolfhound (CC BY SA), vía commons
Airwolfhound from Hertfordshire, UK (CC BY SA), vía commons
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Fighter · 1936
Supermarine Spitfire
The Supermarine Spitfire is the British single-seat fighter with which the Royal Air Force fought the Second World War from beginning to end, and the aeroplane in which Britain invests its memory of 1940. It was designed by R. J. Mitchell…
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Fighter
Hawker Hurricane
The Hawker Hurricane was the single-seat fighter with which the Royal Air Force went to war in 1939, and the first British fighter monoplane to combine a retractable undercarriage with eight machine guns buried in the wings. Designed by…
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