Aircraft encyclopedia: Military

Aircraft models with their history, specifications and variants.

Airwolfhound (CC BY SA), vía commons
Sgt Jack Pritchard, RA (© Crown copyright) (OGL), vía commons
Air Historical Branch-RAF (© Crown copyright) (OGL), vía commons
Dave Granger (© Crown copyright) (OGL), vía commons
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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Evelyn Simak (CC BY SA), vía commons
Sgt Graham Spark (© Crown copyright) (OGL), vía commons
SAC Ben Mayfield (© Crown copyright) (OGL), vía commons
Bomber · 1941
Avro Lancaster
The Avro Lancaster was the four-engined heavy bomber with which RAF Bomber Command sustained its night offensive over Germany from 1942 until the end of the Second World War. It first flew on 9 January 1941 and 7,377 were built across ten…
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Air Historical Branch-RAF (OGL), vía commons
Attack · 1967
Hawker Siddeley Harrier
The Hawker Siddeley Harrier was the first attack and reconnaissance aircraft with vertical or short take-off and landing (V/STOL) capability to reach genuine operational service, and the only design of its kind to survive the wave of…
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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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Aircraft encyclopedia: Military

Supermarine Spitfire

Avro Lancaster

Hawker Siddeley Harrier

Hawker Hurricane